Send in reinforcements!

This is what a reinforced seam looks like when you have a wiggly two year old on your lap......

Done!

The medallion is done! Just in time for tomorrow! Phew! (Can you tell I'm happy about it? !!!!!!)

Goodnight, Day!

I am grateful that today has come to its end.
I am grateful that I was able to mostly stay calm with my oober whiney and tearful son today. (LC has never been this whiney when he's been sick before, so I'm wondering if something else is going on...sore throat? Needs more sleep? Where is that owner's manual?)
I am grateful for a husband who understands that sometimes retail therapy is completely necessary.

I woke up underneath the bed today (not literally). Not just on the wrong side. So not only was I unaccountably cranky, I was unaccountably sad as well. No reason for it whatsoever. Just one of those days I guess.
So LC and I went shopping to get out of the four walls that house us. And Mommy got some comfy new jeans (that are not skinny jeans! I'm going to call them my lounging jeans) and a couple of flattering shirts. Love ma new jeans. I am a t-shirt and jeans kind of girl. In junior high and high school I was a flannel shirt and jeans kind of girl. Oh, and don't forget the perm. Oh, the perm. Wow. And the huge glasses! Ha! The memories! Wow.
Anyway! Coming back from memory lane.... I thoroughly enjoyed wearing one of my new pairs of jeans today. I haven't thoroughly enjoyed wearing jeans in a long time--for many much reasons, which I am not going to get into. Any who, tomorrow I am going to test drive the other pair :)

(Side note: played Just Dance 3 tonight at a friends house. I'm so bad at it but it was so much fun!)

On the sewing front. There has been a lot of assembly line sewing going on. I'm trying to get my mystery medallion done in time for my quilt guild on Saturday..... Ha! (Why do I always design super complicated things?!?)

Lots and lots of this has been happening:

Sick :(

LC's sick today so we're watching lots of movies and cuddling. The worst part of the day? There's no groceries in the house. I'm running low on chocolate :(

Here's a some bad pictures of the finished jumble skirt. I wore it to church yesterday. Soooo comfortable! The waistband is still a mess :) Ah, well.

Adventures with clothing...

I decided yesterday that I needed to make myself a skirt. I looked at a couple of tutorials, and decided on a sort of maxi-skirt. Did I follow a pattern? Of course not! That would make sense! Why do something rational like that?

Nope I just bought some super cheap knit from my least favorite store..... (I won't mention names, because, well, that's kind of rude. They are a necessary evil, and they really aren't that bad. I just don't like the store.). Measured my waist and the length I wanted the skirt to be, drew up a sketch, and had at it. The skirt is ok, but I've been trying to figure out the best way to create the waist. I'm on attempt number 3.....

LC is watching "The Aristocats" instead of napping. And I'm trying to sew something that looks even remotely presentable..... Sigh. That's ok. I keep telling myself this is just the first in many adventures into sewing clothing for myself (something I haven't done in many, many years). Eventually I'll get better and I'll laugh at these first pitiful attempts :) Heck, I'm laughing now--why wait!

Now I must waist away :}

Repetition.....

My Valentine's Quilt is pieced, sandwiched, and basted. Now I'm thinking about how to quilt it. I was planning on doing some big stitch quilting (or utility quilting, whichever you prefer to call it). But after seeing it all pieced, I just don't think the big stitch quilting will look good.

My local Modern Quilt Guild (MQG) is working on medallion quilts over the next 6 months. At first I was a little hesitant, because..... well, I just wasn't drawn to them. But then I started looking at medallion quilts on Flickr, Pintrest, and other blogs. And then it hit me. While there are still some medallion quilts I am not that drawn to, I found some that fit my aesthetic beea-utifully. They are so busy and so almost chaotic that they sing! Our house could never be considered minimalist, as much as I love that aesthetic as well. I love layering artwork and tchotchkes and books. But I don't like them to look like a jumbled mess. I like a little organization in my layers. They have to work together aesthetically. And that's what some of these medallion quilts remind me of. I've been working on a design for the medallion for one of the quilts I want to make. And it is buuuuusy. I love it!

I'll try and get pictures up soon of both the medallion and the Valentine's Day quilt.

Right now I'm just trying to survive busy and chaos spreading LC's transition out of napping..... Think happy thoughts, think happy thoughts, think happy thoughts.......

(This is a sneak peek of the V day quilt back)