Sewing frenzy

For all of you that thought I would never quilt again...today was a winner of a day. I finished Molly's t-shirt quilt. I started with 15 t-shirt from her wardrobe and cut them into 12 1/2 inch squares...backed them with interfacing...cut and sewed borders around them...added a top, bottom and two side borders...quilted entirely around all 30 squares...bound it and washed it. DONE. She will have a heirloom quilt that her friends can sign and she will be able to take it with her where ever she goes. Now, I am sending it to my sister-in-law so it can be in a silent auction for my niece to raise money to go to Sao Paulo, Brazil this summer on a mission trip. The idea is to show the bidders what a t-shirt quilt looks like. If they are the highest bidder, I will make them a personalized quilt for their child. It turned out bigger than I thought it would but it should go very nicely on Molly's dorm room bed...she has been accepted to the Pre-pharmacy program at UC.

On top of that huge project I have been trying to use all my scraps to make place mats to use on the table so it won't have to be covered up all the time. It is so beautiful I have having it covered up all the time. So now I have 12, count 'em...12 place mats that I have made from scraps. I also had just enough of these fabrics to make a trivet. to match. I think I can remember all the original quilts that were made from the fabrics.

No Michael stories today...I think he is trying to be on his best behavior. We did make a drawbridge today from cereal boxes. He got the idea from one of the books that we borrowed from the library on Friday. At least we are sorta moving away from trains. Sara is studying for a big test on Tuesday and Mark is off doing his work thing. So life is somewhat laid back on the farm today. I'll take it!

We were in the basement keeping warm. You can only play and watch so much TV. I got the idea to make pillows from the sweatshirts my sister sent for the t-shirt quilt. The red pillow has red piping around it. I got that wild hair from making drawbridges with Michael.