Spring has finally arrived. 

I love when the tulips appear.  They are my favorite flower. 

And the best thing about Spring is that I have a spring birthday.  This year being my 50^th one I had quite the birthday weekend.  I had 3 separate surprise parties thrown for me plus a planned night out with a large group of friends, let’s just say I kept very busy.  I am so blessed to have such wonderful friends and family in my life.  I am loving being 50!

I had 3 quilts all quilted and ready to get the binding on, and I still have two to do.  Binding is my least favorite part of the quilt process.  I did get the binding on my wool applique quilt. 

This is one that I hand quilted.

I quilted the wool appliques with embroidery thread.  It was tough to quilt.

Little princess had a belated party last week.  She was so well behaved considering she has had an awful cold.

This has been a crazy week, so much to do and so little time seems to be the theme.  I was able to fit dinner in with my quilting gals and that was fun and last Saturday we all went to the big quilt show down in Cincinnati.  I haven't done that for awhile and it kind of surprised me that you still see a lot of the same names making quilts for shows and in the same styles as I saw 5 years ago.  These ladies are so talented and do such wonderful quilts for our viewing pleasure but I wonder why with all that talent they are not stretching it a bit?  Just my opinion. 

Wednesday has been proclaimed Kallie to grandma's house day. So every Wednesday evening she comes over to play.  This week she had a terrible cold and all she wanted to do was cuddle, so lets just say last night was pretty wonderful.  I love cuddling the baby girl.  Thursday night is baby Ian night so I can't wait as I know that is all he does at this age. 

I have been trying to get my new sewing room organized and a visually pleasant place for me to work in.  As I was putting finished quilts away in totes I came across a bunch of my minatures I have made.  I have a bunch of them so I thought I would take a cue from others and start a wall of them.  I have a dresser in the middle of one of my walls that is full of fabric and I already had my doggie quilt hanging on one side so I decided to start my minis up the other side and will go around to the left side of the connecting wall.  So above is my start, I have a ways to go and I also have to remove my smoke detector and place it somewhere else in the room.  So that is what I have been up to.  I am anxious to get sewing again!

I am feeling very blessed!  Ian joined our family last week at a healthy 9 1/2#.  I now have two grandchildren and they grab at your heart immediately and don't let go.  Just another little blessing to this wonderful life God has given us.

I was able to get the binding on another forgotten quilt that Valerie recently quilted for me.  I believe this was a Kaye England pattern. 

Valerie did such a great job on these quilts.  I am really happy with them.

I have been busy sewing the crib bedding for my new grandson that is due the first week of May.  His room is done in Marvel comic book heroes so it is a bit different. 

I have also been working on getting my older sister moved to my small town.  She got sick when she was 18 and she has never been the same since.  But we are so proud that she has been able to live on her own for the past 17+ years.  This move will make life a bit easier for my parents who are now in their 80’s and have health issues themselves.  I am so blessed to be able to now care for her.  I was so lucky in getting her an apartment a block away from me, as this will allow her to maintain her independence. 

When I moved last fall I came across two space bags full of finished quilt tops and blocks.   They had been forgotten about for over four years.  I don’t know how I forgot about these bags as they had over 25 finished quilt tops or completed block sets to make a quilt top.  I guess that old adage out of sight out of mind applies here.  I decided I needed to do something about them so when I saw that one of my fellow bloggers was offering a great price on her beautiful machine quilting skills I sent three tops her way. 

The three quilts I chose were based solely on the fact that I had enough yardages on hand to make backs for these tops that would coordinate with the quilt tops. 

This is the first completed quilt that I have gotten the binding on.  I love what Valerie did with each of the quilts. 

Finally my mystery quilt clues have turned into a finished block!  I like it, but I am still confused as I have units made from previous clues that I haven’t used yet.  This clue shows me sewing the blocks together so it must have a pieced border.  Other then this mystery I haven’t been doing much sewing.  I have had 3 different quilts that I have been handquilting on this past week.  A few more nights on one of them and I will have it finished. 

I just have to show my light I bought to hang over my sewing table.  My new sewing room is a work in progress.  Not exactly sure what my plan is for it yet but I knew I loved the light.  The blue walls were already in this room and my automatic thought upon moving here was that they were going to have to be painted immediately but the more I sit in there the more they grow on me.