My fun afternoon/evening .... and my mom sews

Look whom my mom and I babysat for a few hours today.... Isn't he getting big? He's almost 19 months now! His big brother had a baseball tourney.

Also, my mom sewed for me. I'm working on a Bonnie Hunter Star Struck quilt for my dad and brought up several squares/strips to make the blocks. She wanted to sew for me, so I all I had to do was "match" the small squares to the rectangles. She even got into the matching with me on the last set :-).

My mom sewing:


2 of the ones she worked on. I had all the strip sets made. She just added the corner triangles. I even got her to do the bonus triangles :-).




The stack that she did:

All for now :-)

~QB29

~QB29

Coming Soon to a mail box probably not near you...

Here are my BOM blocks. I was behind and am late getting the August block in. It is the oriental xquisite block. The September block is the churn dash. The floral Jacob's Ladder are the "thank you" blocks we send to the organizers of the swap.


I'm not too sure how much sewing I'll get in this weekend. I'm suppose to be babysitting Bubby and Bubba starting this afternoon, but my sister called and said both are home sick from daycare. So, one of the benefits of being an Aunt is being able to say, "No, not coming, they need their momma!" We'll see if my mom and I can get them tomorrow for the rest of the long weekend. School work's also picking up and my first homeworks are due next week, so I do need to dedicate some time to them. If I sew any, hopefully I'll get to post.

Have a great weekend!
~QB29

Look who I have this weekend!

Isn't he cute?




His mommy and daddy and big brother are camping. So he's camping out in Ga-Ga's living room.

I need to go away more often ....

Today I took a short break from work and ran to the nearby fire station for a car seat installation/inspection. Bubba, the younger nephew, is 18+ pounds and about out of the carrier. Since I don't have a base and would have to install the carrier itself each car trip next weekend when I have him, I thought it would make much more sense to install the RF convertible car seat. Even though I needed the FD to do it for me, it is a lot easier to do b/c it has LATCH, unlike the carrier. No matter how many times I've tried, I can't get the locking clip to lock in the right place :-(.

Well, back to why I need to go away more often. I wasn't gone 30 minutes and came back and my monitors were gone! In their place were 2 flat screens! I'm the last person in the office to get flat screens, though the 3 computers in the print room don't have them yet, but those computers are only used for printing reports, not assigned to an individual, and so are unlikely to be upgraded unless something breaks.

I wonder what else could be upgraded if I leave again?


UPDATE: I was informed shortly before leaving that my flat screens will be upgraded. The ones they gave me are actually smaller than my old monitors, lol. They have some larger ones around that they will give me sometime next week. I'm moving up in the world :-D.

~QB29

Dillon's Journey

Dillon is a little boy who will turn 3 in about a month. (Yes, for those of you who also got my email, I got ahead of myself by a month). I know his grandma from an internet group I have been on since college, and have followed Dillon's story since his birth.

He suffered brain damage at birth and has several disabilities as a result. His parents have worked really hard to help him. They are hoping to take him to China for stem cell treatments using umbilical cord cells in hopes that it will help his functioning (specifically mentioned were reduction in seizures and improvement in vision). Please pray for this sweet little boy and his family. Lift them up to God that He will provide and that He will keep them safe as they prepare for their journey abroad. Please, if you are able, help them financially.

Looking at Dillon and his brother JayDonn who is coming up on his 2nd birthday (yes, they're really close in age), I can't help but think of my own Bubby and Bubba. Bubby is just a few months younger than Dillon, which makes me hold Dillon even closer in my heart. He is a reminder of how God allows our best laid plans to change in an instant, but that if we trust in Him, He will use it for His good.

~QB29

Baby Quilts

Well, it's official ... I can say it ... the special little baby that's coming is gonna be my neice or nephew :-D. I'm thinking about making baby bunting quilt (from http://www.quilterscache.com) with flannel - using pastel blues, greens, yellows, pinks (in other words, for either a boy or girl). I plan on making a couple of quilts for this special little person. As of now, they're thinking about either doing sports (if a boy) or butterflies (if a girl), so the second quilt will be done in the desired theme once we know boy or girl. Who knows, I may get a third one made by the time he or she comes. Or maybe a 4th. or a 5th, lol.

As for the baby quilt I'm working on - I got the center finished last night. I am almost finished (about 7/8) with the inner border .... but my bobbin ran out of thread and as I posted earlier under "One Shouldn't Cut Late At Night", I decided that was my signal to go to bed last night - it was after 11, I think. Tonight I plan on finishing the quilting. I just have a little bit to do on the inner border and then on the outer border I am just doing parallel lines around the inner border. I hope to also get the binding cut and ready tonight.

-QB29