First finished quilt of the YEAR!

26 days in, and finally a finish!! Yay.

Been an interesting start to the year.  My 5 year old got quite sick, and in the 1st 24 hours of him being ill, he vomited 14 times.  I have done more laundry this month than ever.  I am a bit OCD, and try not to buy paper-towel (except for crayoning, with embroidery), so clean up involved endless towels.  Towels that got washed, and used again multiple times that day.  Never ending laundry. 

Between that, and the ability to start and work on a variety of projects at once, I am glad to finally have one done! 

This is a wedding dress quilt, that I was contracted to make.

:)

The whole quilt, in colour ;)

The dress was a halter top.  This is the strap and the two buttons from the strap.  The buttons are functional.  Also in the picture is some of the layers of the top of the quilt, as well as a bit of the bodice (the beaded bit in the bottom)

A bit of the bodice.  This is tacked down by hand.

Some of the buttons from the back of the bodice.  These I hand attached, and none functional, as they were none functional on the actual dress as well.

More of the bodice.

The top shows some of the strap from the halter.  The bottom is some of the layers of the dress.  There are a number of these blocks in the quilt, some of them are completely tacked down, and some are left flowing, to keep with the original dress.

So....

9 days into the New Year, and I am surrounded by fabric.  And books (my other hobby haha).

I am on the last kit of placemats (tops only)  I have over 1/2 dozen sets of placemats to baste and quilt now... trying not to run out and by batting for them, as I know when I get to quilting a quilt, I will have "scraps" and that they are usually a great size for placemats...  also at the sheer number of placemats that will be in my house, I will likely never have to make or buy another placemat again.  Ever.  So then I will have to find another use for my scraps... so might as well use them for this while I can ;)

In other news, I've been reading like crazy.  5 books since Jan 1st, so not to shabby.  Goal this year is 60 books total.
I should mention that I've been off classes since the beginning of December, which likely has something to do with the number of books and amount of sewing I have been doing...  however classes start again on Monday, so I am sure that the rate of sewing and reading will diminish as the studying and assignments go up.  ;)  3 courses this semester, not the 4 I did last semester... then 2 over the summer.  Which will put me 1/2 way through the time allotted, and 1/2 way through the program course requirements too :) so win win.

Hopefully I'll get some projects finished soon, and upload some pics.  I am working like mad on a wedding dress quilt.. lots of handwork.  But it should be done within the week... then I'll post a post on it... that will be released after the reciepient gets the quilt.

For now, I best get back to the child that just got home from school.... :)