Runaway October

I’ve been feel­ing quilty lately. Baby show­ers seem to be the best inspi­raion for me. I gives me a dead­line and an excuse to give a gift that will last instead of some­thing that will be used for a month or two and then donated.

I have few baby gifts that we still use now that my youngest is a year. One of them is a small sam­pler quilt that my mom picked up at at a truck stop some­where out­side of Payson, Az.

Here’s the ver­sion I cre­ated. I think it turned out really well. I had a cou­ple dif­fer­ent quils in mind when I des­gined this. Purl­Bee lists a great tuto­r­ial. Crazy Mom Quilts had a beau­ti­ful ver­sion. Don’t for­get this sassy one too.

I used 6or 7 dif­fer­ent greens that I picked up at JoAnns. The brown is a super soft linen blend. The back­ing is Alex­ader Henry’s Giraffe Cross­ing.

When I asked the mama-to-be what her nurs­ery theme was she said giraffes and out­doorsy col­ors. I hope it fits in okay. If not I know quite a few boys here that would be happy to keep it!

(That’s my 6’2″ brother for size reference!)

To just be happy with my blog lay­out. It seems like every­day I’m decid­ing some­thing is not wrong. I’m almost to the point where I want to pay some­one to do a cus­tom theme for me. I’m one a new color scheme kick and can’t even find any­thing with the right col­ors! Grr.

Any­way, I have stepup a book­store for myself, full of all the won­der­ful books I’d like to share. You can find it here until I fix my lay­out and incor­po­rate it into my blog. If you would also be so kind as to click this link before buy­ing any­thing from Ama­zon, you would be help­ing us out greatly, as we get a small — very small — per­cent­age of what you buy. So instead of all the profit going to Ama­zon a lit­tle bit goes to us! Woot!

In the mean­time, check out this great arti­cle about Spring Farmer’s Markets.

As is nor­mal for me I’ve pro­cras­ti­nated and took my sweet time on some­thing. So now I have this week­end and this week­end only to com­plete the apron I’m mak­ing for my swap partner.

I think my biggest issue was not know­ing my part­ner. I hemmed and hawed about my fab­ric choices for much much too long. I think I ended up adding about 6 yards to my fab­ric stash that I decided on and then changed my mind. I’ve final­ized all of the col­ors, but as is cus­tom­ary, I didn’t buy enough. Thank­fully it’s a solid and I should be able to find a suit­able piece

At least I haven’t received my apron yet. Then I’d feel really bad. Wish me luck this weekend.

BUT! Once I get this done I can move on with my springy swap with Nicky! Yay!