Turkey FHE

Tonight we had a nice turkey FHE. We talked about controling our emotions, expecially anger, we have been having issues with that lately.
We made turkey cookies....I didn't get a very good picture of them, they had gummy wadles and chocolate chip eyes. Then we made turkey shirts. I saw that my cousin Lacy talked about having a turkey dinner and I noticed her children's shirts. They were so cute I decided that I wanted to make some. So the boys helped me cut out the feet, waddle and nose. And they helped me decide where they wanted their feathers. This is Kimball's shirt. It is harder to sew when it is smaller.

Brandon's shirt. He wanted a "pattern" because they are learning about patterns at school.

Then Nathan wanted to make his like the picture on the computer had it's feathers.

I also bought shirts for Travis and I. I will make ours tomorrow, but it will be ready for Thanksgiving, so that we all match!!

I am also going to get our family pictures done soon, and I want us to be in our turkey shirts. One thing though, the pictures do the shirt no justice, they are much cuter in person!! :D I will try to get pictures of the boys tomorrow in them. They are SOOO excited to wear them. They told me many many times.

UFO's .....A New Year of Joy

I have accepted this challenge to get my unfinished projects done with my fellow blogging quilters. So my list consits of:

1. Brandon's quilt
2. Pink Quilt for my mother
3. Amanda Jean quilt Along quilt
4. Wonky Log Cabin quilt
5. Western string quilt
6. Jenni's quilt
7. Catie's quilt
8. Flannel quilt

Looking at this and it is making me sick! LOL I have a lot of quilts to do!! So I have one done, and 7 more to go!

Although I am having a set back with my sewing machine!! I need to get it fixed asap so I can get it all done. But I guess I can wait on the quilting them and work on getting the quilt tops done! :D

Brandon's Finished Quilt!!!!

Okay so I have suffered through it (yes, suffer) and it is finally finished. And Brandon's opinion on the blanket is.....Brandon is very excited to have his quilt done. He was a very good boy in waiting for me to finish other quilts before his. He is a good boy. Nathan saw that I was taking pictures of Brandon, so of course he had to come in. I was able to get a very nice picture of them. This is a rare thing!! What beautiful boys!! Wait, boy and dinosaur.Kimball is very excited to see Brandon's finished quilt too, and of course had to be in the pictures too. They always want their picture taken when I don't want to, but when I want to, they HATE it. I think it is a kid thing. It was suppose to be a regular rag quilt, but I added a border because I thought it needed to be bigger for Brandon. As you can see from my previous post.
The back is the puzzle piece material. I really like it because it HIDES all of my mistakes and it still looks good.
This is a "wonky" stitch. I have created this "wonky" stitch because there was no way I was going to be able get them straight. My hats goes off to Amanda Jean that did get it right!

Then on the edges I did the stippling. Although bad news with that, I think the tension on my sewing machine is broken because I cannot get it right. Travis did help me tighten the screw but it has become loose again. I am not sure, but I need to take it in to get looked at.

If you look at the binding you see this star material that does not fit in at all, but I like it. Gives it a little bit of flare.

A new career?

Tonight after kids ate, made a mess and got ready for bed, Kimball started playing and singing to us. I don't know what he is singing, but Travis used his screw driver to sing and Brandon started doing it when Monk's opening song plays. At first I take some pictures....

Then I thought, Hey my camera has a video option, I should really be tape this". So I did. I would say excuse my house behind him, but I really don't care. I am sick and I just don't care.

I think it is funny that Nathan likes to get his picture taken, only when I am trying to do something else. But oh my, my kids are CUTE!!! But you should have seen them about 15 minutes later when we put them to bed...cute wouldn't be the word I described them.

Quilt Along

So when I Am down and don't want to do something, I do something new. This is how you end up having 15 different projects around the house. The quilt along that I did last month or the last two months ended and I still yet to quilt the thing but I finished the top.

Now we are starting something new. I don't really know what to call it, but it will look like this. I have finished making a few of the crazy 9 patch pieces. I really like them so far.