A new found hobby

My wonderful friend Mandi Jackson is a fabulous sewer and has encouraged me to try my hand at sewing with her. So far I have only made baby quilts, but I have had lots of fun and learned lots of things about sewing.

Here is the first quilt I made; I am still working on getting the binding done but I thought it turned out really well and I LOVE the fabric- thanks Mandi

This next quilt was meant to be a gift for my cousin, it took me about 12 hours to do mostly because I am ditzy and kept sewing the squares the wrong way, etc... I finally finished it the weekend she was supposed to have the baby and it looked great! Then I decided that I would pre-wash and dry it for her. Well the fabric didn't do too well in the dryer and it came out looking absolutely awful. I might have cried a little bit at all my hard work being ruined and then Morgan suggested a fantastic idea....

1st quilt for my cousin

We went to the store and got new fabric and spent the rest of the night watching all three Lord of the Rings and making a new quilt. Morgan cut the fabric and pinned while I sewed everything together. We made one good quilting team! The quilt took us about 6 hours and now is really from both of us. We had a really good time making this quilt together; thanks Morg for staying up all night with me!

2nd quilt for my cousin- from MORGAN and I

I now know how to make baby quilts and I have everything I need except a sewing machine- hopefully Santa gets that for me this year :)

My next sewing project is in the works...our Halloween costume!! Stay tuned to see what we are going to be.