Taking the Bonnie challange!

Over at Jo's country junction there was a challange issued! Finish up a Bonnie Hunter quilt by thursday! Wow I thought this will never happen.. But, I decided to give it a try. I really want to start the new mystery quilt on friday and lets face it: I have too many UFO's! ( unfinished quilts!) So here goes. A while back I started cathedral stars, it is a free pattern on Bonnie's page. Well this week I re-ordered the ruler that it uses ( actually to use in the new mystery quilt) Well now I have no excuse not to make those star points... So I am going to give it a try!

Yepp that is it! a bunch of four patches and some stars made... Wish me luck! :)

I am still here!

But I suppose life just got away from me for a minute! I am taking physiology and my teacher is brand new and 27 years old.. He says things like : In this class I will know some things and you guys will know some things that I don't know,,, ummm.. yes he is the teacher getting paid.. This would be entertaining if it wasn't for the fact that I am still going to get graded. Well still doing good in the class but it is a LOT of work to try to learn.
Also the boys are getting older yikeees! Aaand there are so many things that I want to do!
Trying to squeeze in some time with friends also,, Two months til the big move! I have been so fortunate to have so many good friends here!
Quilters, the people in my growth group and friends that I have met through the military! And ofcourse my oldest swedish friend! I am truly blessed!

My swoon quilt is done! :)

 Eli's Halloween quilt.. working on the binding, he was so happy to have his own quilt..

summer wrap up!

I am sitting down! (Just for a minute though) Today is the first day of normal lol. School has started again and I am heading to quilting class in a few. But oh my did I have an eventful summer :). After chemistry was over my mom came to visit. We did legoland with the kids, went to the beach and after that I went on vacation!! Yes that is right, me and my mom went to Portland, Oregon for some well deserved rest. Although it was hard to leave my babies I enjoyed every minute of sleeping in! We walked and walked and walked (it is a swedish thing) . We shopped til our hearts were content and we ate meals at restaurants without kids climbing around in our laps yelling in our ears and running off. ( I do love my little rascals though ;)..)
We also saw the Multnomah falls which were just beautiful. And admired the early 1900's houses.
But now I am back and in two weeks Eli is turning 2... Yikeees!
Well James just informed me that his toy shark needs breakfast lol..

 The easiest way not to loose kids at legoland? bright orange shirts!

 James rode the airplanes :)

Eli in duplotown!

Bad news that turned out to be good news!

For the past 6 weeks I have been in summer school. It is intense to say the least! Chemistry in 6 weeks is insane! I was finding myself having very little time to do anything but study, which meant that my quilting had to be put on the shelf :(..  Yesterday I saw the preliminary scores on the teachers web page and I thought that I would end up with a B!! All this effort for a B I thought.. I was bummed to say the least! But as we sat down for dinner I realized that if the worst day of 2013 was me getting a B in Chemistry then I was having a pretty good year.

Well today I checked my grade again ( yes I am obsessive with such things lol) and to my surprise, there was an A!! The preliminary scores had not shown the lowest test score being dropped! I was so excited and am now back to being a 4.0 student.

I am surely enjoying having some time off and today I even made 2 crumble pies! one strawberry rhubarb and one apple! yummy if I may say so myself.. I also went to Walmart and picked up Downstown Abbey! And I have had some time to sew and relax, we also went to a county fair but it had no animals! oh well.. things are looking good.
Eli decided to take a nap on the way to the fair

 rag quilt that I made for Eli

 Swoon block, I don't think that this one will make the cut though because it is hard to see the pink..

Finally some quilting!

This week has been all about chemistry. The summer semester is always intense, especially when a lab is required. But hey, I am 1/6th done!
Well yesterday I got some much needed relax time! My friend and fellow quilter Sandy recently purchased a longarm quilting machine, and she graciously invited the whole quilt group to her home so that we could try it out!
I was very pleased with the results, and it was fun too! We also had a potluck lunch on her deck and it was delicous.
Some other great news are: I am getting my own sewing space in the house! ( well in the guestroom behind the garage, but that doesnt matter a bit to me) The whole thing came about after I bought a roll of 25yds of batting ( the stuff that goes in between quilt layers) After playing around with it my husband asked me where we would put it. Now, there just isn't any space left, at all! Sooo my husband suggested that we do some quick fixes to the guest room and put a table and draw an extension cord out there!! yay! My very own sewing space. I can barely wait to make it my own happy pink sewing space!!

Lindsay working on her basket table topper! Those blocks are 4" yikes!

My Christmas wreath!

Sandy and JoAnn trying to decide on the best pattern for JoAnn's shamrocks, below is the finished quilting on my wreath! Holly berries!

 

Lindsay's baskets getting quilted! :)

on a good note!

We got our dog back.. The catch?  Well he got out of our backyard and got put in the pound.
Yepp our dog now has a mug shot!

This is the picture that was posted on their website, and apparently he now also has a new alias. Eddie! lol.
We went and got him today and it cost us a whooping 170$ , good thing he is so cute. He was pretty excited when he saw us after a night or two in the pound.
Others than our dog mishap I have been enjoying summer break! Quilting along on a Halloween quilt ( got the fabric on sale after the holidays) and catching up with friends.

Summer!

We spent about a week in Colorado after school got out. ( got an A in math by the way :) It was nice and relaxing, and the view can't be beat. I just love those Rocky mountains!
We got to shoot the pistol that I gave my husband for his birthday, and it is not as hard as one can imagine after some practice. The uphill climb up there was quite the feat though!
At that altitude even running after the kids is a workout, but I suppose it is a good one for me ;).
I also got to see my nephew for the first time. He is a very calm and cute baby.
As far as quilting goes, well I did some handstitching but I forgot my applique glue soo I had to tear it out and re-do it when I got home. I did however get to go to a quilt shop! I just love quilt shops they are so cute and quaint and people that work in them are always nice ( who wouldn't be, seeing as they are surrounded by fabric every day!)

The cousins playing on the porch!

A little slice of paradise, Estes Park CO.

My ongoing quilt project! trying to use up some scraps and some fabrics that didn't quite make it into a quilt!