Let’s see if these show up correctly! These would be the finished quilt top (before I tied it) and one pillowcase I am embroidering.

All I’ve been doing lately is this baby blanket! So I stopped. Well, I tied it together and then stopped. I’m almost done though, just need to finish the binding and that’s it. I can’t wait! I have time because my friend isn’t due until November.

A couple of weeks ago we stopped at one of the craft stores and just walked through. I love doing that, sometimes you find great stuff on clearance or something for the kids or just another craft! I did pick up an embroidery set of pillows that I am working for my daughter! She’s very excited and I’ve let her help out a little bit. I’m so happy she’s taken to crafting and is so interested. She has asked for a sewing machine for her birthday and we are seriously considering it!

She’ll be five in a couple of weeks. And I’ve heard that the small sewing machine that is more for quick fixings may be a good one for her. I need to check it out the next time I’m at the store. Actually, I’m not even sure where to find it!

My digital camera battery died *again* - well of course it dies sometimes, right? But it seems that whenever I need it, that’s when it isn’t working. But I’ll get pictures up soon, the pillows are looking so cute and they even sort of match her curtain!

I have completed so much of this blanket! I think people sometimes get intimidated of quilting, but really once everything is cut out, it’s easy from there. I now just need to trim the edges and iron the rest of the border seams and then I can put it together! I’m so excited, I thought this would take a really long time but it seems to have gone by fast.

The first picture is an up close of the blocks before I sewed them together. The second is the finished top.

As usual, bigger pictures can be seen over at Flickr –>