Chantal's baby shower was Saturday and it when very well! She was tired but very happy and excited with all of the friends and gifts. Here is the cake that was made by Chantal's grade school teacher for her shower.
I finished up my sewing at around midnight Friday night! LOL! Nothing like waiting until the last minute to finish things. Here are the gifts that I made for baby Addison.
First up...the puff/bubble quilt...
I made 25 hair bows! I bought this hair bow holder at Hobby Lobby 50% off and it cost me $8. It worked out well to clip the hair bows on.
Modern 4-patch flip backed with minkee.
Colorful Scraps quilt made with pindot fabrics.
Pink polka dot Chevron quilt....
10 Flannel burp cloths...
55 suckers!!!! These were party favors. :)
It was a great day! We had lots of fun with friends and family. She got a ton of wonderful gifts! She has 7 more weeks to go!!!! In the end, Chantal, mom and I were all exhausted! LOL! Now that I have all of this baby stuff finished up I can get back to working on something that is NOT PINK! LOL! I would like to finish assembling my bow tie top but, today I will try to finish painting the nursery! :)
Brrr.....it has been sooooo cold here in KY!!! We got a ton of snow here last week and it is still hanging on. It doesn't look like I will be getting off this hill until Spring! :) I mentioned in my last post that Richard was only able to get to the bottom of the hill and had to ride the 4 wheeler on up the hill to the house. It is just crazy! The forecast for Tuesday morning is -17 degrees with -35 windchill!!! Can you believe that for KY? Had some busted water pipes too. :(
Anyway....working on trying to finish up things for the baby shower that is scheduled for this weekend. Hoping that they will actually plow our road. As long as I have lived up here, they have never plowed it when it snows but they are supposed to do it when they can get to it because my sister is 32 weeks pregnant and you just never know when and if she needs to get out and go to the hospital.
I finally got the puff/biscuit/bubble quilt assembled. I still need to add a backing to it and I'm thinking that I will add a RUFFLE around the edges. Not a real big ruffle but a soft ruffle that is not real full. Maybe....maybe not....I'll just wait and see when I get started on it. :)
The puffs are stuffed really full as that is how Chantal wanted them. :)
I'll post another photo of it once I add the backing and ruffle.
I also made 5 more hair bows! I think this makes around 20 of them that I have made for the baby. I will have to count to make sure but I think it is around 20.
I have also been working on some hexies. :) Just plugging along with these when I need a break from this other stuff.
It is 4:45am right now and Richard is up getting ready for work this morning. The news says that the roads are solid ice so please say a little prayer that he gets to work safely.
Hunter and Richard got out on the 4 wheeler yesterday playing around in the snow. I think they both had a blast. Richard was pulling him on the inner tube in the snow. :)
-Kristie
Well I'm snowed in on top of this mountain! LOL! I'm doing a lot of sewing but not a whole lot. I'm finding that I'm not really getting a lot accomplished other than sitting here and watching the fire burn and taking a few naps. :) I have worked a little bit on this puff/biscuit quilt for Addison. The baby shower is in 9 days and I'm not even close to having it finished. :(
I also worked on a few hexies. This is an old pic but it never really changes. LOL!
Shew....we ended up with over 12" of snow!!! :( Richard had to work yesterday and we have a Jeep Wrangler that is 4WD but a 4WD still doesn't mean that it will go everywhere! LOL! I've mentioned several times that we live at a place called, "top of the world" and that is pretty much it! We live on top of a big ridge with lots of hills and curves on a tiny backroad. Richard had a little trouble getting off the hill yesterday morning but he did get off. Getting home this evening was a different story. There are 2 ways to come in to our place from the blacktop road. The shortest way is about a mile away from the house and that is the way that he went out this morning. He couldn't even get up the first hill so he turned and tried coming in the other way which is about a 3 mile drive from the blacktop to our house. So he got to my sister's house which is at the bottom of the big hill and couldn't get on up in the Jeep. He parked at her house and brought the 4 wheeler (ATV) on up to the house.
He has to work again this morning so he will ride the 4 wheeler back down the hill to my sister's house and take the Jeep on to work. Sadly we are supposed to be having record temps in the next few days. This morning it is supposed to be -10 and the windchill -22!!!! It is close to that now. :( That will sure make for a cold ride down the hill to Chantal's which is a mile away. He is getting ready to leave in a few minutes.
Hunter will not have school until Spring! LOL! Meanwhile, Hunter and I will spend the day keeping the fire going and waiting for Richard to get back home.
-Kristie
Yesterday I did something that I have not done in a long time....I went fabric shopping! LOL! I have pretty much been working out of my stash since 2009 but with my sister having a baby girl in a few months I needed to pick up a few things. I don't have any of this in my stash.
I picked up some pink minky to match this quilt. Now it just needs to be quilted and the binding done. I have leftover fabric from the top for the binding.
I'm sure that you can tell that my sister loves pink! I picked this up for the border of my Colorful Scraps quilt that I am in the process of piecing. A hot pink mini dot.
This larger hot pink dot will be a small chevron quilt. I already had the white so I didn't buy it. When I got home I realized that they had cut me more than I asked for, 1.5 yards extra to be exact. I checked my receipt and called back to Hobby Lobby and they thanked me for calling and told me to just keep it after I offered to pay for it over the phone.
I mentioned in a previous post that my sister also wanted a puff/biscuit quilt. These are the fabrics that I picked out for that. She is doing the nursery in owls so I thought this would be nice.
I started cutting out some squares from the fabric and put them up on the wall. It's all very busy to me but she likes this stuff.
I could not sleep last night so I got back up and cut the rest of the blocks. I still need to cut the backing squares which I will probably do today so that I can get started.
I have also been working on these. These are my break from all of the bright funky fabrics. LOL! If you have read my blog for a while you will know that I don't tend to work with modern/bright fabrics. :)
I guess that is all for now. It is another cold day here in KY. Hunter only had 2 days of school this week and that was his first week back after Christmas Break.
Kristie
As most of you know my sister, Chantal is having a baby in April. She calls me yesterday and asks if I can make a puff/biscuit quilt. I know these were really a big thing back in the 70's maybe a little in the 80's but I wasn't quilting then as I was born in the 70's. :) So I grabbed some scrap fabric that I could practice with. I was just mostly trying to figure out how much stuffing she wanted in them.
She wants them pretty full with fluff as she plans on using it as a playmat on the floor. She has wood flooring so she wanted something with some padding.
These are only practice pieces so now I just need to find out what colors that she wants me to use in the actual quilt/playmat. Meanwhile, I will get back to working on the polka dot quilt. I haven't touched it since this photo the other day.
It's 6:15am so I've got to get my day started!
Kristie
I finished up my sewing at around midnight Friday night! LOL! Nothing like waiting until the last minute to finish things. Here are the gifts that I made for baby Addison. 
I made 25 hair bows! I bought this hair bow holder at Hobby Lobby 50% off and it cost me $8. It worked out well to clip the hair bows on. 
Modern 4-patch flip backed with minkee. 
Colorful Scraps quilt made with pindot fabrics. 
Pink polka dot Chevron quilt....
10 Flannel burp cloths... 
55 suckers!!!! These were party favors. :)
It was a great day! We had lots of fun with friends and family. She got a ton of wonderful gifts! She has 7 more weeks to go!!!! In the end, Chantal, mom and I were all exhausted! LOL! Now that I have all of this baby stuff finished up I can get back to working on something that is NOT PINK! LOL! I would like to finish assembling my bow tie top but, today I will try to finish painting the nursery! :) 
