On the Road to Spring

I am trying to get a few thing fixed in all of my records: quilty-things I have finished, quilty-things that need to move to the next step, and quilty-things I want to start. I have a few things I feel need to get done this year, and this is the best place for me to keep it all straight. 

Back in 2012, I started the Fat Quarter Shop's Designer Mystery Block Swap. 

 I made one block and stopped.

Then I started cutting it all up into different usable sizes and sewing them together. 

I used On the Road to Spring Quilt Along to make my own quilt with the fabric I had bought.

I loved it!!

I ended up with a smallish quilt,

and a very nice lap size quilt. 

I hope to get these two quilts finish. I will only count them as one finish. 

TTFN

My Word of the Year

One of the things I do every year is pick a word that describes my focus for the new year. It usually comes from noticing certain things from the past year that I want to work on. As I reflect in December how my last year went, I start to pick words that will help me in the next year to feel more confident with my life. 2016 was a great year for me, I completed two semesters of college, getting 14 credits. I babysat my Granddaughter for 3 to 4 day a week almost every week, I completed a few quilts, put on a quilt show for our local town's summer festival, I had my first real cash paying quilting job, just to name a few things. But I lacked a sense of focus, I felt lost, scatter-brained, like I was the last one to know what I was doing. That is why this is my word for 2017!

I need to FOCUS on the thing that is my life. In my life, there are many different parts of my life. Each one is special, each one is important, I need to FOCUS on each of them. 

They each deserve my FOCUS!

A Few New Things

My youngest daughter feel in love while in college. She had meet this young man a few semesters back, but they had a space of time that they were not together. When they go back together, they know it was time.

 They were married on December 31 at the Boise Temple. We are so happy for them!!

 Especially me!! (Me and the bride)

The cute couple at their reception. They are way too sweet together! HA HA

 Other than wedding stuff, that I have been busy with for three weeks, I have been sewing. I have been between semesters at school so I have used every quiet moment sewing. IT HAS BEEN WONDERFUL!! I started cutting and sewing my pieces for the En Provence Mystery Quilt with Bonnie Hunter. I am loving the process but boy are there a lot of pieces!

 Step 1 done

 Step 2 done

I have most of step 3 done, but I need to add more.

 Step 4 done

I also have been busy making pieces for my daughter and son-in-laws wedding quilt. This first picture is all of the 322 arches. WOW! And because I am a number nerd, there are 1932 pieces.

 In this pic, half of the arches have the additional end pieces on. So now there are 2,254 pieces.

 Here, I have added the melons to the shorter arches. so now we are at 2,415

 So finally, I have all of the arches sewn into all of the melons. 

 My first circle!

 Four in a row. This is were I stopped. I will get back to it soon!!

School work started this week so we will see how much time I have to sew, HEE HEE!!

TTFN