More Quilts!

Jenee has been busy working away on her projects. In a single weekend, she turned out a diaperbag, baby quilt and stuffed kitty for her friend Grace. Pretty impressive! Especially since its all made of patchwork squares that she had as left overs from other projects.

Now that here Mom and Dad ave been here for their visit I can reveal a little about the latest project. For Linda's 50th birthday, Jenee is making Linda a Texas themed quilt. It's quite an undertaking as each square is something different. I have been doing most of the cutting for Jenee and because its so involved, I can only handle about an hour at a time doing it.

When its done, it should be something pretty special. There will be patchwork, embroidery and some amazing freehand quilting. I may show some squares here as we progress so if you are interested check back. The amazing thing is this quilt came right after we finished Heathers quilts and Jenee decided that she wasn't going to do anymore tricky quilts for a while. I guess she didn't really define what a while was to be.

Teaser Shots of The Twin's Quilts

As promised, here are some teaser shots of the quilts Jenee is making for Oliver and Thomas. We worked on them for probably 16 hours over the weekend and we are finally making good progress. This is easily the most intricate, time consuming quilt we have done to date... enjoy.

Quilting Time

So Nate has been asking me for weeks to post something on the blog. I have been avoiding it because he is so much better at describing things than I am but here I go. Here are some quilts I have done in the last year. I don't have pictures of all of them but these are some really fun ones. I am really enjoying quilting. It is something I can do semi-mindlessly as I am juggling so many other things right now. Nate helps me SO much. He is the official cutter because he is so exact and patient. We are so different in that way, but it has been really cool to work together on it. Now I just need to learn how to take cool photos and we will share one more thing in our lives. Poor guy, he never realized by getting married, we would definitely not be far apart again :). I love it, hopefully he does too. We have sanity afternoons where we can do things separately. But back to the quilts, hope they are semi interesting. Not exactly a professional but maybe one day I will get there.

Oh and by the way, my birthday was AMAZING! Had so much fun. Nate took wonderful care of me and my family and friends were awesome. I will post some pictures of some of things later. Hopefully a bit quicker than this post :)
I made this quilt for Meredith Hamersma. She is our friends, Rob and Sarah's little girl. She is way to cute! I learned a lesson with this one though. Make sure the fabric is washer safe! It is touch and go whether they can wash it or not. I am such a trial and error learner. The back of the quilt is really soft flannel material. Fire safe according to Nate :) he will have to explain that himself.

This is the quilt top I made in a day, with Nate cutting of course. It is for our friends Soha and Chris who live in CO. They are having a little girl in May, her name is Sophia Rose. I am pretty much done with it, but have the binding to finish, then I will have a complete picture.
This one is really cool. It is one for my Aunt Paula. She bought this great material and asked me to make her a breast cancer quilt. It was A LOT of work, but I think it turned out pretty cool. When I wash it it will be fuzzy in places. I am waiting to do it at my mom's house because our washers are not very safe. Ask my poor clothes (cant wait to have my own washer!).