She did not have to steal it from me after all

I gave it to her on Mother's day, my mom in all her glory. She loved it of course and now I am her favorite again. Not that I never was, but you know how it is when you have more than one child, right?

Here are the results of the last month. I still am in awe of my creativity during this time. Four quilts in one month, how awesome is that???

I hope that my son and his finance do not visit this blog too often (if at all?) I never know, but this is their wedding gift. My daughters love it so I am feeling good that they will too. I still have to label it and give it a name.

This last one I was for sure going to keep for me. I still do not have one that I have made and kept for myself yet (okay, the pratice quilt will be for camping but I am sure I will share it with others, it does not count). The oldest daughter, I gave it to her on Mothers day even though she is not a mom yet, she is just now coming out of a really rough time in her young life, she is going thur a divorce and it has been awfully hard for her (and her parents). So I named this one "New Beginnings" so that she can have a fresh start. I hope that it gives her comfort.

all I can say is that I am glad this is now done

This quilt above is for my son and his future bride. Their colors for the wedding are black, white and red. A little too down for me for a quilt, but I am fairly certain she will like it. I pushed myself to finish this beast last night, got it done around midnight and popped it into the washer. It was very satisfying to take it out of the dryer later this morning and admire all the crinkly goodness of the quilt though. I hope it brings them many years of happiness because that is what I think of when I snuggle under a quilt.
This one above, I finished a few weekends back. It was my second try at the free motion quilting and I love it. I decided to keep this one too for myself, although when I have my mom over again on Mother's day, I think I will have to hide it. She has already tried to pry it away from me.
None of these are perfect in any sense but I am having fun making these lately. I just realized that I have finished three (!!!) quilts in less than a month, that is a record for me, in years past it would take me darn near a year to finish one and those were not anywhere near as wonderful as these. Of course, my kids were little then and I did not have as much time as I do now to spend on crafts. Well that is something good to say about being in your forties, you now have more time for yourself (yeah!).

Its all good...

This evening finds me in the "art studio" (yeah!), working on another quilt. This one is the stacked coins quilt that is all over the sewing blogs. Super easy to put together. Tonight I am working on more free motion quilting and I think I am getting better. It does not look like a drunk person is working on this even though I am sipping on a glass wine this time in between my breaks while cruising the sewing blogs and getting more helpful hints on this fabulous technique.

I am loving this new quilting task, although it is a bit strenous on the arms, there is a lot of fabric to put thur the machine and my sewing arm is not that big. But I am liking how if I relax while doing it and not stress out so much worrying about messing it up it comes out better. It does take alot more thread then quilting in the ditch, which was the only quilting technique I would try in the past, but so worth it. I am thinking I might actual start liking sewing again, not that I would ever give up knitting, but I was more a sewing person before I picked up knitting.
It was also a beautiful day here in KC weather wise, and that always lifts my spirts as well. I hope this post finds all of you out there crafting as well.<>