April 2008

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Happy Birthday Liam!

April 29, 2008 in Kids, Me by emily | 4 comments

At 5:11 pm on April 29, 2007 Liam Cormac came into this world 4 weeks early.

He has become such a wonderful little boy. Everyday I see his smile and my heart just melts. This morning he and I went to Duke Gardens for some relaxation and pictures. Ok, a LOT of pictures. Here are a couple of my favorites.

This is such a Liam face. I laughed out loud when I saw I had captured it.

I might add pictures later of our little party from tonight. He wasn’t too big on the idea of cake so there might just be a bunch of scrunchy faces spitting out food.

Edited to add a couple more…

Liam on his new quilt reading his new Very Hungry Caterpillar book.

His super cool alien cake.

And his thoughts on my baking skills.

C-9 Jane’s Tears

April 28, 2008 in Baby Jane Quilt by emily | 2 comments

So I’ll preface this with stating that I hate hand sewing (so this quilt will be quite the challenge for me!).

So I did my reverse applique with a small zig zag to see if it would work or if I really do, gulp, have to sit there with a needle and thread.  Most (all?) quilters could hand sew this and it would look much, much better.  But honestly, I’m not sure my hand sewing would look better than the machine’s attempt.

I might come back and redo this one.  I’m not sure.  Any opinions?

B-13 Four Corner Press

April 28, 2008 in Baby Jane Quilt by emily | 1 comment

Eek!  I made a tiny block!

I fussy cut the center flower.  I really went back and forth on whether or not to fussy cut the yellow blocks and in the end decided not to.

The next block scares me a little.

Off to bake a chocolate cake…

That was quick!

April 28, 2008 in Baby Jane Quilt by emily | 6 comments

My book and CD are here!

I want to start tonight but I also have to pin Cowboys, pin Maypole, finish the videogame quilt, bake Liam’s cake, wrap his presents, clean up the downstairs for his little party, finish the laundry …

Liam will be wearing his birthday suit…

April 28, 2008 in Kids, Misc by emily | No comments

… on his birthday because he isn’t getting any embroidered pants. I have a love/hate relationship with my sewing/embroidering machine. It sews beautifully. But when it comes to embroidering, it has a mind of its own. So (finally) this morning I was going to make him his alien pants for his birthday. They were going to have a cute alien/space ship on the bum kind of like Hanna Andersson’s Soft Landings Pants. I did the design this morning and got everything ready.

The bodysuit he was going to wear with the pants had aliens all over it and looked like it was drawn with a crayon (it’s from Target so you might have seen it if you’ve been in the baby section lately). The design was supposed to mimic that with satin stitches.

Well, this is where the pants are now.

After several tries to get the machine to start and center the design, it would not stitch. It stitched, but not properly. So after multiple rethreads, cleaning out, trying again and again, they just got trashed. I can’t even rip out all the bad stitches in them because there are so many. Maybe I’ll dig out some jean shorts for him to wear with the bodysuit.

Today isn’t going to well. Hopefully his flying saucer birthday cake will come out ok.

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