a quilt and a love story

After several years, numerous spools of thread, and count less chopped up baby clothes, I finally finished Clara's quilt! It's been finished for over a month (or two!), and I thought I might as well share it with the world.  I couldn't really sum everything up with a quick facebook post and a few pictures though.   The more we looked it over and snuggled under it, the more I loved it.  Which in turn made me want to blab on and on about, so why not put the ole blog to use!

Without further ado...our first Tshirt quilt!

Of course it is just a quilt.  Sewn to keep her warm, super warm, in fact.  This Tshirt quilt is actually much warmer than the other "regular" quilts we have.  I'm guessing that the interfacing, although lightweight, adds an extra layer of warmth.  I personally love how heavy it feels, but overall it is still a thin quilt.

I am not a quilter.  And to be honest, probably not that great of a sewist either.  However, I love sewing, and I loved using up all our much loved Tshirts, dresses, onesies and blankets to make a new quilt.  I can't help but get a little emotional at bed time, when we look over the squares and talk about who gave us the shirts, or when we wore them.

Seriously, do you remember this little face?!

Now, every time I pull up the covers to tuck her in, I do.

I even attempted some hand quilting (but don't look too close!)

I love it, she loves it, mission accomplished!

this moment

inspired by soulemama: {this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

sweater accomplished!

I made a sweater...not just a simple cardigan type thing, a real sweater, with pieces and seams!!! Seriously!  It only took me 4 months...haha! Well, it's not like I worked on it every day, or every week for that matter.  I did also happen to notice the warm weather showing up more frequently, but none of that matters, I've worn it at least a little bit everyday for the last few days.  I'm proud of myself, and seriously love the sweater.  Not sure if I love it because I love it, or love it because of the effort and care I put in it.  Doesn't matter really, I love it.

The yarn is SHELTER by BrooklynTweed and the pattern is Shadow, from Wool People (by BrooklynTweed).

did I mention that I love it?

this moment

inspired by soulemama: {this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

this moment

inspired by soulemama: {this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

glances into february

life continues to whirl by me, and as it turns out, i don't always have a camera at hand...

week 2

7th- tshirt quilting

8th- crayons melt

10th- 1st green smoothie

11th- ZuZu's

week 3

17th-valentine's past

21st- set in sleeves

21st- cuties

21st- paints

ok, so those last two may have been the same day, but, i couldn't help it.

29 days of February- Week 1

I thought it would be fun to do a picture a day challenge for the month of February. I have no grand illusions about being able to post a photo a day, so I'm going to do it "digest" style at the end of each week. I'm also not going for crazy amazing photo's, just those that capture a moment or image I like, so many of them may end up being iPhone shots.

So much of my life is focused on the monkeys, but I'm hoping to get a little more of me into these shots.

1st- 3.8 miles

2nd- grocery store

3rd- stock

4th- cheese!

5th- a house divided