Next time won't you sing with me....

I'm going to start doing a Letter a week craft with Jackson.

This week was A is for Aquarium. We did 2 Aquarium projects.

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With the first one we mixed blue Jello into a fish bowl and halfway through we put in some gummy fish. (**Actually we forgot to go back and put the fish in, so mommy pushed them down into the Jello before Jackson woke up!**)

And for the second craft we cut out a fish bowl shape from poster board. Then we filled a Ziploc bag with blue gravel and some Easter grass. We had a couple of sheets of googly eyed stickers and Jackson picked out a star fish, an octopus, two seahorses and a few fish to have in his Aquarium. Then we glued the Ziploc bag between the poster board cutouts!

Spring has Sprung!!!

I went to my favorite fabric store today and bought some very spring like fabric. I am excited to begin this project. I've always wanted to be artsy....but I couldn't draw to save my life. This gives me a way to be artsy and crafty! I drew up a plan on some graph paper of some simple squares and rectangles, and numbered them 1 through 12...the women at the fabric store were shocked that I was trying my own design. They asked me to bring it in when finished...I hope my design in my head turns out just as pretty all pieced together!!!

Turtle Quilt

I finished the baby quilt for my friends Michele and Wesley's new baby Nicholas. It came out SO good. I have to admit I am quite proud of it. I think the colors came out perfect. The center square, the boarder and the back are all the same turtle print. I stitched in the ditch around all the squares and the tiny inner boarder. I think I might go back and quilt the center square. I'll have to think about it.

I still have yet to finish the quilt I was making for quilting class. I wanted to hurry and finish this since Michele had Nicholas a few weeks early. (Today WAS his due date though!) All I have left on the quilt for class is the binding. I'm surprised at how slow going that is. It took me almost 3 days to hand stitch the binding for Nicholas' quilt.

Just in time for warm weather!

I've been working on this scarf for quite a while. It was suppose to be a quick knit....boy was I wrong! I started it right after Christmas. I finished it last Thursday night, just in time for the beautiful taste of spring weather this weekend. I had to laugh! I did wear it out on Friday for a bit, but I had to shed it as I was way to warm....but at least I got to sport it once. Maybe we will have another little cold snap and I can wear it before it has to go into hibernation for good!

And here is a close up! I love the colors!!!

Just a quick post...here are all the Monkey Wrench blocks from quilting class. This week we are suppose to square all our blocks and sew them together. I think it's cool how completely different everyones quilts are turning out.

Monkey Wrench

This weeks assignment it to make all my Monkey Wrench blocks. I will be working on those today as well as taking on another project! I'm going to make a baby blanket for my friend Michele's baby. Baby Nicholas will be here in 6 weeks or so, hopefully I can get the quilt finished by then. I have 5 weeks left in class, and I will be playing catch up with the Nicholas' quilt today. Yes, I'm going to attempt to make 2 quilts at the same time!! And they are totally different!!! The second quilt is going to be in a "Courthouse Step" pattern.

Here are the fabric's for my Michele's baby quilt....

Knitting Projects

Here is my first cable hat!! They were a lot easier than I thought. I ended the hat a little to quickly because it came out a tad small. So, it's a hat for Jackson! I'm really bad at figuring out when to start shaping. The instructions said to start at 5 inches....well, that didn't work out so well! Plus I'm a tight knitter, I don't think that helps at all. The hat in my profile picture was made by my friend Kellie's "sizzor", Colleen. Her hat has a nice loose knit. Maybe I need to try a bigger gage needle.....yeah! More to buy!!!

I'm also knitting a fabulous scarf. Maybe for me...maybe for someone special! Who knows. The yarn changes colors about every 2 rows. I cast on 25 stitches and I'm doing it in a stockinette stitch. I tried a seed stitch, but it looked to busy with all the color changes. I know I chose a boring stitch, but the yarn is SO pretty!!! The yarn is by Noro Iro and I love it!!