Lots of quilting being done, and tons of other stuff, but the best thing EVER is that our little grandbaby Madeline Faye Martin was born on October 24! And she is the sweetest thing ever!
Here she is, just 2 hours old! Adorable!
And here she is 3 weeks old.....and on the quilt I made for her!
It's an oversized baby quilt, so she can use it on her big girl bed later! I pretty much copied the quilt that Nicole at Mama Love Quilts showed here! Nicole's color sense is amazing, and her quilts are so lovely, full of joy and happiness! I fell in love with it the second I saw it, and knew I had to make one for little Maddie!
As you can imagine, life right now is revolving around the little peanut (peanut M&M that is......get it.....Maddie Martin.....M&M.......HA!!!) And..... when Liz goes back to work in January, we get to be the Mon-Fri babysitters! I can't wait!!! Maddie is perfect in every way.....she's so good-natured, happy and healthy.....and the only time she cries is when she's hungry! So easy! What a little sweetheart! LOVE HER!!!!
Ok.....enough Grammy gushing, right!?! On to quilty stuff!
There was an incredible antique quilt at the Vermont Quilt Festival last year that I knew I just had to reproduce! So when we were preparing for our winter in Florida, I cut a chunk out of nearly every piece of repro fabric I had and drafted up a block for paper piecing. I designed it a bit different from the original, but this will fit our bed.
So when we got to Florida, I got busy on it! It took just over a month, and I finished piecing all the blocks! I'm so in love with this quilt! I could seriously make a dozen of them! The blocks are so addicting.
Here are the blocks pinned to my impromptu design wall (a king-sized sheet binder-clipped to the curtain rod!)
But then.......I started to put the blocks together! And that's where it came to a screeching halt! I've never machine pieced Y-seams before, and it takes every ounce of concentration I can muster to get a nice join. So it is moving very slowly now, but that's ok, because every join has been perfect! YAY!
And, if you've ever wondered what it was like to live in a beehive, well........crazy, huh?
I'm hoping everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving!
regan
