finally, finally, finally...

the secret project that i have been working on for weeks. i felt like i was going to burst not saying anything or slip up some how and give away the surprise! whew.... boy am i glad that is over, i am not very good at keeping secrets, gift secrets anyway. real secrets i am, but that is another matter. so i finally worked on my first quilt!!! hop, skip and jump from the denyse schmidt book and boy is it awesome! this was totally a collaborative project, which i think is how i want to make every quilt from now on, with sarah and kerry. we surprised kristen with a shower for the little one that is supposed to be here in two weeks! and i can finally say that it IS hard to take pictures of a quilt. oh my. so the details, kerry and i pulled some flea market fancy from our stashes and other blue/browns. the three of us did all the cutting in one night, and spent another night arranging all the pieces on the floor to get the blocks set the way we liked it. then kerry and i split up the blocks for sewing, only six each! i gave her mine finished blocks, and she sewed up the rows and quilt back and then it came back to me. i did the really scary part, making the sandwich and the quilting. i can honestly say that i really had no idea what i was doing with that walking foot and um, i still dont. is it supposed to feed or am i supposed to feed the quilt through myself? regardless of pretty much having no idea, it still went pretty smoothly, although i did slip up just a bit, thanks leslie for pointing that out. lucky for me kristen is in the final throes of pregnancy brain and didnt spy that little peek. so after i got the quilting done with moderate safety (there was blood involved again and a broken needle) i handed it back over to kerry who cut and sewed the binding and just like that a quilt is finished! and oh how we love it! thank you kerry and sarah, good work team! next up kerry's baby quilt! we are seriously going to start our own quilting guild and churn these puppies out!

and just because i couldnt resist making yet another stencil...

ok, please no one make me keep any more crafting secrets. i cant take the pressure right now.