Father's Day tradition...

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I realized that I have never posted about Travis's father's day present.

 We have a family tradition that every year we make a Daddy's shirt.

 This one is a little bit of a teaser for Trav...ever since we started dating we had a rivalry between our two favorite football teams....The (better team) Denver Broncos and (lesser team) Oakland Raiders. So basically Trav HATES any blue and orange combo....

I found this polo on sale and just had my crazy idea of the blue on it. He was concerned at first when he saw his shirt, and didn't know if he could actually "wear" it. But he has and even though the colors are not his favorite, he likes it!

Also notice my little goof up on the back?? I tried to peel it off...but decided to bag it. I think it adds character!

Travis also turned 35 years old yesterday! Happy Birthday to my dear Man!!!

Look what came for me....

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I received some of this in the mail this past week....

 fabric for one of my Moda Bake Shop projects!

 It is called King of the Ranch by Sara Khammash

I originally planned to make this quilt for my little brother, but now I am not 100% sure....either I will give it to my Dad for Christmas or heck.....just keep it for myself!!! I really like this fabric!

NFL Square Swap

 

Does anyone know someone that LOVES football? Know someone that is COUNTING down the days until the season starts? Well I enjoy football, I wouldn't say I am a fanatic or anything, but I enjoy watching a few games. 

I was thinking that it would be awesome to have a NFL quilt that showed all of the different teams. I had an idea of a quilt that looked similar to this....

I was thinking then with the back, I would take fleece or flannel of my husband's and I's favorite teams and put it on the back, that way we have one side that is showing our team spirit, and the front showing the whole NFL. In our case the back would be half Oakland Raiders and half Denver Broncos.

Since you only need about 2 blocks of the same fabric, it made sense to me to have a swap! 

After a little research....(yes I had to do some research) there are 32 teams in the NFL.....

1. I need at least 31 people to join in order to have at least 32 different blocks (1 for each team or we could double this so everyone can have a least 2  from each team) 

2. We can have 63 people join and we can assign 2 people to each team 

Everything depends on how many people are interested in joining. Also I don't mind if someone takes more than one slot...each slot will count as 1 person, so if you choice to sign up more than once that is fine, you will get double.

So if this is something that you are interested in please please pass the word along! I need everyone's help in spreading the word to make this a success!!

I am trying to do this swap and have time to get a quilt made for a Christmas present. So I think in order to have enough time to order fabrics (online if need be) we need to have this sign up end by Sept. 10th. Hopefully we will be full by then, but that date will decide if we can continue with the swap.

So if you would like to join, please comment below, and please only those SERIOUS and willing to CARRY OUT this swap sign up. 

Thanks everyone, and don't forget to spread the word!

Dinosaur boys.....

 My boys like dinosaurs....

 so much so.....we talk about them all the time.....like to wear dinosaur tattoos....

 even become dinosaur heroes!

 We also know their "real" names. You can't always understand them, but they know what dinosaur is what...

 even Kimball can spout off their correct names....

Dinosaur Heroes and future paleontologists.

Another Done!

Here is another quilt that has been done for some time, but isn't DONE until I post about it!!

 This is the Summer Quilt Along from Amanda Jean from CrazyMomQuilts.

 Here is the back....

 I ended up doing a 1/4" quilting around the whole quilt...when I began it, I didn't realize that it would take as long as it did.....

 See the back....cute how it started out!

 But then somewhere along the way I got it crooked, so I ended up having to add pieces to the bottom of the edges on the back...I just used scraps, as this whole quilt is a scrap quilt....

 It's a nice twin size quilt, and SUPER comfy!