A windy, windy day

By some miracle, we haven't lost power at the house today. This morning's weather report called for "a weak system to move through the area this afternoon, and clear out by this evening." Umm, no that is not what happened - at all. It is SO WINDY! two power poles fell down, one just north of the house, and one to the south, and somehow we still have power. Thankfully! because I have a pot roast in the crock pot. 

Awwww skunky HST's

Anyway, I've been making some progress on the next baby quilt. I even ran out today and picked up fabric for the backing. The unusual (for me) aspect of this one is that I'm doing a little applique. And boy did this quilt need it!

It's cute, sure, but it was really lacking in the pizzazz department.

It's a pumpkin!

I really like the way the applique extras are coming along. It's adding so much to the quilt! Every time (it's rare) that I do applique, I think how awesome it is, how I can make any shape I want, and why don't I do this more often?

Then I get to the blanket stitching. Ah, yes, the blanket stitching...

Looks pretty good... but...

How tedious is the blanket stitching? Will it ever end? Why did I do this? I mean it just goes on forever. And I'm not even doing a lot of it.

Ben totally agrees, blanket stitching is soooo dull. 

Curly's OK with it.

Best,
Heather

Procrastanation and a Photobomb

I had a small conniption fit the other day, and announced to all present (the dogs) that I was sick of our benches. You see, we have these built-in benches in our family room to either side of a gas fireplace. And they are pretty bland looking. I chose our wall color, which I still like, but the benches needed a little pizazz. So I dove headlong into the stash, and stacked my pulls on the bench to see what I liked.

And then there was the most adorable photobomb (IMHO). My littlest baby came over to see what his momma was doing.

Ben

He's only the littlest in terms of age, 16 months. And he's my quilting "helper". He likes batting. A lot. I have to make sure the tote is securely shut at all times.

I finally did choose some fabric out of the stash, and took a quicky trip to a fabric warehouse for pillow forms. While there I hit the jackpot with two remnant home-dec fabrics and some garnishes that matched with my stash pulls. I've made up 5 pillows so far, but no photos yet. It's total procrastination on my part, not finishing off the quilts I've already started. I just couldn't tolerate the benches anymore. At least that's what I'm telling myself.

mmmmm...tasty fabric