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This is the current state of my sewing room.

This is the first full week of school since the end of February and it has felt like the longest week ever. Sadly it's just not the business going on that has caused me to not have any desire to do any quilting. My mojo is just gone.

Instead I hosted our monthly craft night at church earlier this week.

Didn't get a lot of cards finished but we had a good time.

I picked up a new book.

And have spent every spare moment in the past two days sneaking time to read more. I finished it tonight(mostly the reason why this post is so late. That and the nap I had when I came home from work lol) If you are looking for a good book to read, get this one! It was fabulous.

Lastly, the last thing I finished in my sewing room

Maybe my clean sewing table will inspire me this weekend and my mojo will return. I'll keep you posted.

wordless wednesday

quilt monday

Seems like a very long time since I've posted one of these :). Today, a very late Christmas quiltie I made for myself. It took what felt like for-e-ver to get the binding on. And I love this quilt so very much!

quilted with a meander

I lucked out and found just enough yardage to make the border; the quilt is a perfect snuggle side for cold winter nights.

I love this block.

I kept the quilting simple and went with a meander. I didn't want anything to compete with the fabrics in the quilt.

I wish I had taken this pictures in the daylight but we were pulling apart our crawl space and I wanted to get this in the Christmas boxes so night pictures it was.

I wanted a fun flannel backing; I found this great penguin fabric and snapped it up.
Brought it home, sewed it together and discovered that I was short :( So not happy. 

But I still love my quilt. Is it Christmas time yet?

it feels like spring

snack saturday

Chunky Apple Cake

• 1/2 cup butter, melted
• 2 cups sugar 
• 2 large eggs 
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 4 Granny Smith apples, peeled and sliced
• 1 cup chopped walnuts, toasted

1. Stir together first 4 ingredients in a large bowl until blended.
2. Combine flour and next 3 ingredients; add to butter mixture, stirring until blended. Stir in apple slices and 1 cup walnuts. Spread into a greased 13- x 9-inch pan.
3. Bake at 350° for 45 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely in pan on a wire rack. Spread with Cream Cheese Frosting; sprinkle with walnuts, if desired.

card friday

wordless wednesday

re-dos

Hello hello!! We(I? lol) survived our 2.5 weeks long spring break. I love having the kids home but I was really looking forward to today; I need some time alone lol!

I didn't get as much sewing time as I had thought I would have gotten but I did manage to squeak in some time Monday. And what did I do? Remade some quilties that I had second thoughts about.

First up, my Lil Twister quilt. It's not actually a redo; I picked up some yardage for the borders and now it is an actual quilt top.

Next, a disappearing 9 patch. I wasn't thrilled with this top; I'm on a rectangular quilt kick right now and didn't like that this one was square. So again, found some yardage, broke out the seam ripper and now we have this.

I will not admit to how many times it took me to rip apart and redo the borders so they evened up. And quite possibly they didn't even up in the end and out came the rotary cutter ;) Regardless, I love this top now.

Next, I started this quilt last week. It's based on a Moda Bake Shop tutorial.

I had the top together than pulled off the top/bottom rows and added in the sashing. Some borders and this is ready for quilting.

Lastly, I do have a finish for you. We went on a roadtrip last week and I love nothing more than binding a quilt while driving long distances. I was able to sneak in a wee quiltie for myself before we left.

quilted with Figure 8

I had wanted to custom quilt this one but I didn't have the time and wasn't able to decide how to quilt it so I smacked a panto on it and called it done.

I still don't love this quilt but it's growing on me. I think, (I know!), it would be better with a lighter zig in the zag (or would that be a lighter zag for the zig??) but it's better than what it was.