Nathan's class helped make this quilt for their teacher who is having a baby this month. I went into class one day when she was absent and helped them make their hand prints.  It is the first quilt that I have completely hand quilted (the piecing was still done by machine).  I really love the way the hand quilting around the hand prints looks!  His teacher loved the quilt and the kids were so excited to point out their own hand prints to her!

Deo Galaxy

Here is the quilt I made for my brother and my new sister-in-law for their wedding gift.

Halloween Costumes

Halloween costumes!

Pay It Forward Homemade

A friend offered a facebook challenge for the new year.  Her status said that she would send something homemade to the first 5 people to comment if they promised to do the same for 5 other people.  So far I have sent things to the first 2 people - a pair of music themed pillow cases and this very fun felt pizza play set.  I bought the pizza pattern from one of my favorite shops on etsy.com and stitched it out on my embroidery machine.

How I spent my snow days

We have a lot of Legos at our house.  It was getting to be impossible to build anything at all and I was all out of storage and sorting ideas.  So when we had a few snow days last month, I decided to sort the Legos by color into Ziploc bags.  Since then we have been recreating the kits using the list of pieces in the back of the instruction books.  A certain someone has a renewed interest in building with Legos now that the frustration of sifting and searching is gone.  So I think it was worth the time it took to sort them all.  To be honest, it was worth it just to hear the excited, "Thank you!" when my Lego master realized what I was doing.

Valentines

 Origmai hearts made by Zachary and me for his classmates

 Heart puzzles and the card that went with it for Nathan's class.  based on an idea I saw here.

One of the churches I play for has a sewing group called Lydia's Piecemakers.  They make quilts and layettes for Lutheran World Relief.  Last weekend, a year's worth of sewing and quilting was dedicated and will be sent off to be delivered around the world.  You can see where the quilts were sent in 2009 here.
The quilts and layettes were spread out in the nave on the pews.  It was a beautiful sight!

 

Here are the three that I worked on.  I pieced the tops and the other ladies layered, tied and bound them.