6 Month Procrastination Quilts

One of the big projects for the house that I've been avoiding recently was making some quilts for our bedroom.  I picked out some patterns and fabric, then I decided I wasn't so sure about them and I was nervous about quilting king sized quilts on my machine at home, also I just have to have something to procrastinate about.

I eased into it with a box full of scraps.

I did some improvisational strips.

And picked out some backing and binding.

And I got to practice some of my free motion quilting!

I could use a little more practice.

I finally got around to basting and quilting this big guy, of which I took no pictures.

This is the other king size quilt I made. Apparently, this is the only picture I took. It's a whole cloth quilt with Team Sunshine Fuzzy Bunny embroidered on it.  Taking no pictures is obviously a theme.

I finally finished this crochet pillow, which I started working on LAST CHRISTMAS.  That's more than a year ago.  Efficiency at its finest.

Here's one I did actually take pictures of!

Here's the finished top.

And the back.

I'm just going to be rude and not post a bunch of pictures of all of the quilts being finished since pretty soon it'll be time to show off the whole house!  Eep!

Also, I kept my quilt procrastination down to only 6 months.  Win.

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Paris Maps

We went to Paris!  That means I got to spend days and days staring at this handsome dude while he stared at maps.

Eddy loves maps. The first jet-lagged thing we did was visit Notre Dame.

There were lots of culturally important works of art and explanatory objects inside.

To be honest, though, probably the most popular attraction there was this spinny toy outside.

Well, most popular with Eddy, at least.

We saw all the good Paris stuff together: Art Nouveau metro stops,

the Arc de Triomphe,

the Eiffel Tower, duh.

Probably our most fun day, though, was at the Centre Pompidou.

Lots more Paris to come, so stay tuned!

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Snow Day

We had a really snowy winter here in Portland (so we heard.)  People keep telling us it's never very snowy here, but just look at this photo evidence to the contrary.

Eddy had some fun helping the neighbor kids do some sledding.

There's also this super fun slide in the park by our house.

I made some snow angels, or just rested in the snow or whatever.

Also teeter-tottering is my favorite!

Even Norman got in on the fun.

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I Pity the Fool!

It's been a really long time since I've blogged.  I have something that might make it alright, though. An offering of sorts.

I.

Made.

An.

A-Team.

Quilt.

I watch a lot of Netflix in my workshop.  It tricks the dogs into sleeping all day so I can get things done.

I prefer TV shows because I don't have to spend time picking something out every 2 hours or so.  I prefer ancient trash TV because I love ancient trash TV.

This was the only real pattern I used:

Had to do the van.

The real reason I decided to make this quilt, though, was that every time Hannibal would say, "I love it when a plan comes together," I would think to myself, "I love it when a plan comes together," but about whatever quilt I was making at the time. Then I started saying it about quilts even when I wasn't watching the A-Team.

Here's the finished quilt!

All hung up above my closet.

I pity the fool who doesn't have their very own A-Team quilt!

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