Fanfare for the Heroes

Since I mentioned it you can see the history of my Fanfare for the Heroes:

It started ages ago, and I was silly enough to decided to make this massive queen size quilt by hand. What silly things when we are tired.

26 Sept 2006

 MacMac the pattern book and the bulk of the fabric before going on his first deployment.

7 Dec 2006

7 Dec 2006

16 Jan 2007

16 Jan 2007

17 Jan 2007

 

I got the last of the fabric for the quilt the lighter pinks and yellows. I made up a little postage stamp quilt with the scraps to let MacMac see how the colors work with each other.

14 Feb 2007

14 Feb 2007

9 July 2007

9 July 2007

9 July 2007

9 July 2007

9 July 2007

21 June 2008

21 June 2008

As you can see it gets worked in tiny bursts. I've worked on a piece here and there since 2008, but never made any full blocks and also haven't found an empty floor space to layout all I have.

Still running behind

Nothing much to report. The holidays are on there way, so we are getting nested for that.

Crafting wise I sat down and did some hand quilting on Fanfare for the heroes (an old work in progress) for perhaps 30 odd mins before SqueekMoo got to curious with my project. Other than that nothing much.

My sister is requesting another scarf, one that's longer and perhaps with fringe, if the weather is nice (as in not snowing) I'll probably go get supplies for that latter this week. 

Out of my closet and into theirs

All the stillbirth Gowns and blankets have been turned it. She (the bereavement nurse) was delighted by what I gave her. From the sounds of it, they will take a long lengthy time to get used up. which is good, cause I honestly hope they never have to be used.

On top of the ones i got pictures of, I did make two more in the medium size that in a white tone on tone fabric. Those ended up looking slightly more boyish. I'm going to look into getting a Big 3 pattern on sale and see if I can scale down one of the boyish baptismal outfits down to size.

I also gave her the heirloom sacque I made since I really have no other use for it.

We have great plans on what we'd like the bereavement support to look like. Our goal is to make sure everyone has all the attention they want so we might "offend" some who wish we would bother them as much. But at least we catch all the people who want the attention.

Personal Sewing Time

SqueekMoo had a late nap. I should I known better than to let him catch a nap so late in the day, but he was so tired and i really wasn't in the mood to deal with a grumpy cranky little one. I think I have a mild cold.

Knowing he had a late nap, I didn't rush to put him to bed. We took out sweet time. He eat the left overs of his dinner when he ought to have already gone to sleep. I laid down with him for a while, but eventually he got tired of laying and played in his room.


I wanted to play with my sewing machine, and so I decided that if he was going to stay up he was going to have to amuse himself without me. Which is able to thankfully.

So I finished up the last of the little quilts I had pinned and ready:

I had a size extra tiny gown that had already been prepped, pleated, sewn and had the first row of smocking in. I was able to finish all the smocking on it tonight.

Being productive

My dad treated us to an iPad. It's a wonderful thing. I can give it to SqueenkMoo and he will put up with me at the sewing machine for sometime. Iwas able to make some head way on some small charity quilt tops that needed their backs. I have given up the notion of doing binding for my charity quilts and once I establish that things went quickly.

I dislike binding so the thought of having to do it slowed down my productivity on the charity quilts. Now I just need to get some more smocking and I can turn some things in and really call my deeds charity.

Catching up!

Wow so much has happened since I last posted. Or perhaps it just feels that way.

I did finish the stillborn gown before going on holiday. It looks wonderful. I can't wait to get a few more done and donate them. The camera is charging when its down I'll post a picture.

I'm going to start making some training pants for SqueekMoo. So I've done some cloth diapering shopping. I was able to get a set of snap pliers off eBay for $19 with shipping. It probably would have been cheaper to do a bundle deal of snaps and pliers, but I haven't picked out fabric yet so I didn't want to limit my fabric with snap color choice issues.

I'm going to be rearranging the crafting area soon, so there may be a lag in craftiness. I want to have a more efficient work area.

The to do list for the week is said rearranging, but I'm hoping to work on some charity quilting and smocking.

Solar System Quilt

In my last post I mention that I hadn't touched the project my MIL had given me last year. Well being that I mentioned it I decided to pull it out. I got this much done this yesterday afternoon. It's gone quickly. I worked on it a little more last night. Okay a lot last night. I had to do the outer border twice since the problem with working on a year old notes is that your notes can get a little confusing. I wasn't able to miter peice the border peices together, instead I had to butt the edges together. I will be able to miter the corners though. I jsut hope that I made the quilt right so that I have enough backing to pull this off.

Trying to find Time

SqueekMoo sleep schedule is being rework. Having the In Laws in town really messed with his sleep cycle, also His Hiney-ness really need a system reset. The goal now is to get him up at 7:30 and down by 8. All of which is wishful thinking but I'm going to try.

Sunday MacMac took Mr. T out and about to let me have some personal time. I finished the drapes I was working on. MacMac hung them yesterday. You can definitely tell the difference. MacMac felt the temperature drop in the nursery. I think the house itself is cooler. Thank goodness for black out curtain lining!

After the drapes I worked more on the In Bloom quilt. It's a block of the month quilt that I treated myself for Mother's Day when I was pregnant with DS1. I have one more block left to make. Here are the two I did on Sunday.