Welcome to Four Cedars!

So we moved!  We're still in Portland, but we moved to a different part of town and we are loving it.  SO MANY PROJECTS TO DO.  Seriously.  It will take us a very long time.  These are big projects, so they will be a slow trickle making it to the blog.

That said, we busted our butts to get some of our outdoor projects finished before the rains set in and one of my priorities was to make the front of our house a little cuter.  Here's what the house looked like when we moved in.

One of the things I hated was these old rusty light fixtures.

So I got these new light fixtures.  We use them in pretty much every house we've ever owned, but this time I wanted to paint them a cute light blue.

Norman helped me paint them.

Then, guess what! I wired them all myself!

Also I painted both of our doors.

I threw some extra paint on this little guy.

Again, Norman helped.

Lastly, I made a sign using reclaimed pallet wood. We named our house Four Cedars! We name our houses. That's just how it goes.

Here's the new and improved front view of our new place!

Welcome to Four Cedars!

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Welcome Little One!

Eddy's brother Gene and his lovely wife Annie have a new little girl!  The obvious thing to do is send quilts.  Send so many quilts.  Annie told me she was entertaining the idea of an RBG nursery decor theme.  Whether she was serious or not, I decided to take it very seriously and send this little number. 

Okay, but then I needed to send an actual baby quilt along. I was very excited about this pattern I found and the fact that the nursery color is lavender.

So I did a lot of cutting and labeling.

And turned that stuff into this kind of stuff.

I used some of my very favorite fabrics from my stash on this project.

Here's a very unsexy picture of the layout for the quilt top.

These rows are just too cute.

TOO CUTE!  I am actually so pleased at how the quilting came out. This is the first time I've really felt confident about my free motion quilting.

I found a very teeny, stripey fabric for the quilt binding.

Okay. Here's where things get dicey. I swear (I SWEAR!) I took so very many pictures of this quilt before I sent it off to little Eleanor, but I cannot find those pictures. All I have is this garbage shot of the pieced top

And this somewhat lovely shot of it as a finished quilt.

That's all she got. Apparently. Well, not Eleanor. She gets the whole quilt. Welcome, little friend!

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