Amy and I drove down on Friday morning with Emily and Kacie hot on our heels. As soon as our bags were on the floor, Amy and I got straight to work...
Sewing the sides first...
Getting the fabric for the back of the quilt all ready...
Ok, so I skipped a few steps here, but I did such a ginormous blog about my quilt that I didn't think anyone needed another play by play :)
Amy is VERY excited that we're almost done!
Tie it up! Emily is the fastest quilt tie-er this side of the Mississippi - so I stood back and busied myself with some small task so she could finish it up without me getting in the way! :)
We finished my cousin's quilt on Saturday (!!!!!!!!) so we were able to start on my nephew's right away! We chopped up some jeans and got down to it...
Here we have Emily modeling what's left of Amy's old pants.... Bringin' Sexy Back!
Here is our barbie, Kacie, showing us how it's done!
They wouldn't let me eat till we were finished... I got a bit hungry... ha! Just teasin'... in the olden days when "Bite Me!" was the cool phrase, my sisters and I got into the habit of shrugging our shoulders, saying, 'ok!' and chompin' down on whomever dished out the tempting phrase. I thought this moment was as good a time as any to bring biting back :) Ah, good times!
Getting all the layers sewed together....
Tie it up again! We finished C's quilt on Sunday afternoon, even Grandma got in there and tied a row, but her hands gave up after that. My grandparents couldn't get over the fact that we finished 2 quilts in one weekend - we were quiltin' fools I tell ya! We even got a little pool time in there as well, gotta love St George in October!
Me & Kacie
Grandma's Girls :) We love you so very much Grandma! I know I speak for all of us when I say we were all so excited to be there and loved that we were able to help you accomplish these amazing quilts. We miss you already!
Holy cripes! Was that not the best weekend ev-ay!!! So much fun in the car on the way down, absolute fun while we were there all weekend, and fun in the car on the way home!! Tell you what, we know how to rock out a quilt too!! I'm already counting down the days to the next trip where we bust out the rest of the great-grandkid quilts.
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hmmm....i have a concern......I thought i was the only one you would bite? guess not? Oh well....such are the woe's of my life.... (thank you Emily Jr. for that one!) I was very surprised to hear you finished both quilts over that weekend. That is one amazing task! Doesn't your life feel so accomplished now? Well congratulations! And thanks for coming back home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteYay for fun times!!! This weekend felt much more of an accomplishment the me, even though I left before helping tie Cooper's quilt, but it was a good one! =)
ReplyDeleteOh I so love how you did this with Grandma. You girls are so sweet and are such great sisters!!! It was so great to see you, you look so amazing. I love you lots and lots and I am happy we go way back!
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