Birthday boy with a Sackboy

OK, my awesome son just turned 15! Where have the years gone? I’m sure they’re going to keep speeding past me at the speed of light. Each day is a precious gift with my kiddos. Nine years of homeschooling. Two more years left. Then, I need to decide what I’m going to do now that I’m a grown up…haha. Maybe more quilting, how about cake decorating? How about an antique/shabby chic store? Paint my house, recover my sofas, catch up on my scrapbooking…I think I have ADD!


OK, back to my project this past week. This is my Sackboy look-alike from Little Big Planet. My son would spend hours on this game if I let him. I adapted my pattern from this pattern. I changed a couple things: the mouth – I just stitched it instead of cutting out a separate mouth piece. I also added the zipper from a torn pair of jeans I had kept. (I keep all our jeans – I intend to cut out funky patches and make a quilt someday – add that to my list…) You can even unzip him and see his blue “shirt”. I don’t knit, but I wanted him to look knitted, so I went to the thrift store and had Taylor pick out a men’s sweater he liked the color of, so voila…knitted Sackboy! Now my daughter wants a pink “knitted” Sackgirl, and a friend of Taylor’s wants one too. She just needs to tell me what color. I might even enlarge the pattern and try a larger one. How about clothes? Hats? I can see this getting out of hand quickly! It really was a fun project. I found the key to this project was to stitch the outside edge with a short stitch before I cut the pieces out. It kept the knot from fraying or loosing shape before I was able to stitch the pieces together. Then just cut closely to the edge.

Next time, I’ll have my version of yoyo pincushion. Sorry, I couldn’t help but adapt a pattern I found! Shhh! These are surprise little gifts for my momma and sissy!

Mickey baby quilt!

This morning, one of my favorite friends is having her sweet baby boy! I did this quilt for her sweet baby with Mickey Mouse fabrics I’ve had in my stash from a quilt I had made for my nephew nine years ago…can he really be turning 9 soon? It doesn’t seem possible!!! I’ll see if my sister-in-law can find the quilt and send me a picture of it so I can post it.


I traced the Mickey’s I used for my 6” blocks, and did a double batting style of trapunto on them so they’d pop out of the fabric. I just love MICKEY! The new baby receiving this has an older brother who is 3. Ethan just had his first trip to Disney Land. I wonder if I should make him a quilt so he doesn’t hijack this from his future baby brother…hmmm. Monica is one of my sweetest friends! It was such a joy to do this for her and her new little man! I can’t wait to meet this little fella. I’m sure he’s going to have dark hair like his momma and daddy, and probably gorgeous large dark eyes and long eyelashes like his older brother! I didn’t get to stay at the shower long enough to see her open her gift. I’m so bummed!

Congrats Monica, Brian and Ethan! You are loved!!!

Foundations Collegium cram!

OK, I posted my first blog a several weeks ago now, and my loving son, whom I’m paying $5 per hour to post everything for me needed to get back to guitar practice, so I didn’t have time to blab about everything going through my brain! (Don’t tell him…I’m going to try to get this onto the blog myself…just to see if I can actually do it!)

I thought I’d show you a picture of what cramming for oral exams with Foundations Collegium looks like here in our household…a stack of books, lots of written pages (enough to fill a 3.5 hour time-slot of regurgitating everything you’ve learned in the past semester for 10 different subjects…) Isn’t she beautiful!

For now, we are finally over the oral exam. This girl can yack for 30 minutes during a 15-minute section about every topic. Let’s just say if she had done all 10 different subjects, she would have been there all day! There’s still work left to do for school this year, but hopefully it’ll be done soon! Ughhh!

First Baby Quilt of the Year

I am finally starting my blog, and thought it was fitting that I post the pictures of a quilt I made for a very special friend's new baby. Fabrics are from Hobby Lobby. I just liked the crazy flowers!