October 24, 2008

Lily and Ivy want to say Happy Halloween....

Today I finished making the baby quilt for my son's best friend's little girl, Alexis Mae. It was fun to make and turned out girly. Now I have to design a quilt for one more of my son's best friends who is due in November and is having a boy.

I have about 4 more inches to knit on my purple top down v-neck sweater....weehoo! I will post that photo while I'm wearing it later.

Our trip to Hocking Hills here in Ohio

We went to Ash Cave with the dogs on Columbus Day the 13th. It was a beautiful fall day.

This is the view looking out from the cave.

The cave is pretty large as you can see by the tiny people over there in the distance.

Here's a photo of Mark, Lily and Ivy.

What have you been doing on these beautiful fall days??

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Remember the purse I made on my quilt retreat trip to Berlin?

This is the other purse I made for my daughter with a charm pack

of fabric and 1 yard of a coordinating fabric.

It has 2 large pockets inside and I put a zipper at the top which the pattern didn't call for. The little front envelope pocket is perfect to put a cellphone. It's a fall fabric, her favorite time of the year, but I think it looks a little Christmasy too so she'll be able to use it through the end of the year.

and I finished my OSU "go bucks" socks!!

Last weekend's Berlin Getaway

I had the best time with my old quilt guild buddies! We sewed, laughed, ate, shopped and drank our way through a great getaway in this quaint Amish country town. I had plans and fabric I brought to make 5 purses from a pattern that had complicated instructions. It took me 2 days to complete this purse and would have taken more days were it not for Linda, Sue and Heidi's help. I guess I had my sights set too high to get all 5 purses sewn. The concept is to make the purse insert to use in several different outside purses so you can just change purses easily by taking the inside section out and plopping it into the other purses you make. I guess I'll make those other purses later. For now I'm just going to enjoy this one purse I completed. I love the fabric and was holding onto it for several years...don't laugh, quilters tend to hold onto their fabric purchases sometimes longer than a few years. So here's the photo of the front of the purse, the top of the purse, the insert and the inside showing all of the pockets with my stuff in it. Did I mention that we drank with dinner? I tried to limit that because I knew I would have to concentrate to complete this project.

The purse also has 2 outer pockets between the handles that were sewn down on the front and the back.

I did start another purse on Sunday morning before we had to pack up and leave.

I'll show photos of that one in a later blog.