Over The Rainbow

I finished another quilt.   This one is for my dear Bryce for her 8th birthday.  I called this one "Over the Rainbow".   

Those are all the blocks sewn together.

A close up of my awesome corners.  :) and a bit of the free motion quilting I did.  Kind of hard to see on the purple but it's there. 

The backing with the quilting.  In the essence of time I only quilting the colored blocks and not the white sashing.   If I had had more time I would do the whole thing.

The finished product.   This was a super quick and easy quilt.  One more to notch on my belt.  Getting better every time.

On to the next!

Getting better at this

The more and more quilting I do the more I can see my progress.   Slowly but surely I am getting better at this.  First case in point:

 

I'm very pleased with my corners on this one!  Look how awesomely lined up they are!  I love it!

This is for the Kaleidoscope quilt I am working on.  More to follow soon.

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

This is a Young Adult book that is getting rave reviews and I can see why.   At first I was a little "eh" about the book as it read like a young adult novel, very young, but progressively got more "adult".   If you read the cover of the book you might think "kids with cancer? who wants to read that?! how depressing".  I'm not going to lie to you, you will cry, most likely.  It will be very touching and moving.   This is one of those books I would love to read again because I feel that I missed a lot of the deeper meaning that is in this book.   I was so caught up in the relationship that I think I missed out on the message that is being portrayed.  These kids are old souls and I loved each and every one of them.   And I definitely want to go to Amsterdam now!  

Favorite line from the book "You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you."

A beautiful book that I will recommend to everyone.  5 out of 5 stars. 

Quilts in progress

I have two quilts that are works in progress.  One is a quilt for my stepdaughter and is the hot priority since I want to give it to her for her birthday, which is in a couple weeks.  Yikes!  It will be a Kaleidoscope pattern with these fabrics:

The other WIP is a wedding Guest Book quilt for a dear friend of mine that recently got married.  Some of her guests forgot to sign the quilt so we are sending blocks to them so this will be a WIP until I get those blocks.  They got married in Texas with a rustic them so I chose Texas themed fabric. 

The Force Quilt

This past Sunday I gave "The Force" to Cayden for his birthday and he loved it!  The message on the label read:

"The Force" - May the force always be with you as will my love.

He was already using it within an hour of receiving it in his post birthday party nap.  

A tuckered out 10 year old.  :)