Shh! Don’t tell! It’s not done yet! I sat down to put the binding on (THERE’s a story for you – it will have BLUE binding. BLUE.) and realized I don’t have any thread that color. So, we’re on hold, yet again….but….

….it’s my mother’s lap quilt, my first Log Cabin, in all the wild colors she wanted….

Even though I haven’t been blogging, I am alive, and life goes on around here. My free time lately has been taken up by a little (?) sewing project: another quilt. I got it in my head to make a quilt for my MIL for Mother’s Day (shhh!), and I found a quilt I liked that was different from my last one, but still easy enough, and even better, a class that was running to keep me on track for an on time delivery. This past Tuesday was the last class, and we had to be ready to add the borders that night. After a semi-busy weekend with Cassandra (more on that in another post), Monday night was homework night – sew, press, rip out because it’s on point, I’m confused, and I sewed backwards, repeat.

At the end of the night, we had success!

It’s another lap sized one, and I was able to get the borders on Tuesday night and send it on its merry way to be quilted by someone who actually knows what they’re doing. Once it’s back in a couple of weeks, time to add the binding and we’ll be ready to surprise Mom #2 with it. These are totally her colors, and I’m hoping, her style.

J was a big help again with this one, helping me assemble the blocks and keep them in order. We’ve been talking about making a quilt for our bed for awhile, and he mentioned that he really liked this pattern. It’s a good thing, because if I’m making a king-sized version of it, he will be helping. A LOT.

In the back of that picture, you can faintly see some little shoots of something – that would be the beginnings of our garden, growing happily along. The squash and cucumbers have really made a run for it. J sneaks in almost every day to look at them – I think he’s excited, and I am, too.

Happy Friday!