spring garden

The boys and I planted a spring garden with Grandpa Gillespie. We planted broccoli, cabbage, peas, spinach, butter head lettuce, Roman lettuce, carrots, onions, we have strawberries going from last year. I wish I would have had my camera with me, it's so cute when little kids help with the planting, next time. I love that Dan (aka. grandpa) helps me. I can't have the garden in my own yard so he offered his yard. When we got to his house he had already tilled the garden. so we just got to do the easy part. I am leaving for turkey tomorrow for two weeks. So hopeful when I get back everything will be sprouted. If you want to hear more about my trip look at Traveling Pansies blog we are going to try to update it everyday.

Its comming

Spring is almost here! My crocuses are coming out. Wyatt and Dean love finding new flowers in the flower beds. I can't keep Dean from picking them. I need to remind myself to plant more early spring bulbs next year. Flowers are a delight when the snow melts.

prim rose

I guess this is how you dress up a ugly box? I couldn't take looking at my bare windows any more, they need paint bad but its not warm enough to do it. My distraction are these bright prim rose. I think they look a little better at lest for February.

Pillows are done

Pillows are done. I finished them the other night, just before my friends came over. I love them. They make my dark room a little brighter. Don't you think they scream spring or what! I have to tell you free motion quilting was kind of hard I know its just because I am new at it. It like patting your head and rubbing your stomach at the same time. It can be done but it takes some time to get good at it. I think I did a OK job, but don't look to close please.
This is the backs as you can see I left them open so I could wash them after a while.



I did quilt some with loop-d-loops and some that look like puzzle pieces.

Hurt thumb

Green hurt thumb! Paul and I were play fighting on Sunday. It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt. I was trying to punch Paul. Paul was blocking with his huge muscle. He karate chopped my thumb, and I went down fast with crazy pain. Then the boys thought (she's down, it is jump on Mom time). I thought it was broken for sure even the next day it was hurting pretty bad. I thought how am I going to be a mom without a thumb. Today it does feel lots better, the kids have only bumped it four times. So hopeful it will make a fast recovery.
So to some sewing stuff. Yesterday I finished piecing the backs of my pillows. I was kind of nervous I wasn't going to have enough but I made it. It was a close one, this was all the fabric I had left. I got them all ready to quilt. So here goes nothing, I am going to dive in and do it. Oh I hope they turn out well without having to unpick too much.

Birds, Bees, and Bugs

Top and back are done. I just have to work up the nerve to machine quilt this on my own. I have to stop sending my quilts out to be quilted. It's killing my wallet. If I want to make more quilts I'm going to have to learn to do it myself. I have signed up for a freehand class but its not until April. This beautiful quilt might be sitting on the shelf for a while.

Pillows

I am working on new pillows for my frontroom. I wanted something bright and fun. I want to free hand quilt all of these on my own, but I don't know how and I am really nervous to learn. I think these pillows will be way easier to learn than a full size quilt. So next time you see these babies they will be quilted by me.