Bits and Pieces

This is a blog post filled with bits and pieces--news, paper, fabric, yarn, etc.

A few weeks ago (October 4-5th) I had the opportunity to participate in the First Annual Quilt Camp (there were a lot of f-words, but I can't remember them all...NO, not those f-words silly...they were food, fun, friends, fabric, and some other ones I can't remember...) Everyone had at least one project they were working on (many had more than one!) I have an almost completed quilt top that I cut and pieced while there, Mom finished an awesome Thomas the Train quilt just in time for Tyler's birthday party, and Kim cut and pieced her quilt in the "Yellow Brick Road" Pattern.

I also finished my 3rd knit hat...Granted, it's nowhere near as fancy as Jessie's, but I love it! The color is awesome, the yarn was a dream to knit and the swirls just make me happy. What can I say? I'm a girl with simple needs.

And on the knitted hat front...Kim knit up the cutest fishbowl hat for Tyler for his birthday. It is knit in blue (his favorite color...) and it was even cold enough for him to need to wear it!

Even though I have not yet finished my quilt from quilt camp, I was so inspired by Kim's Yellow Brick Road that I had to rush out and pick new fabrics so that I could make one too...in my spare time...hmmm...well, here they are--washed, folded and waiting for my spare time to come in the mail...

Yesterday, Tyler and I did paper torn crafts(it's the teacher in me)...I was thinking beautiful fall day...

And he was thinking race cars speeding along their tracks...
Here's his finished product. Maybe it's the proud mommy in me, but I'm pretty sure he has a bright future in art!I went with Jessie and Kim to the Civil War Revisited at Kearney Park last weekend and had a blast (hahaha...get it, cannons, guns, blast? hmmmm, nevermind)!!! The battle was great, the kettle corn was very tasty, but the best part of the whole thing was getting to chat with the spinners and seamstresses about their old old old treadle sewing machines. One lady was there with hers that doesn't use a bobbin, but insead does chain stitching, which was a beautiful finished stitch. I have decided that I could become quite obsessed with spinning and may need to take it up as a hobby...a very expensive, but productive and soothing hobby.

At the Civil War Tyler was feeling...hmmm...less-than-chipper, shall we say?

but he did perk up a bit during the battle when he saw the men riding around with swords...

Come to find out he has/had a virus called Herpangina (which sounds like an std, but I am assured it is different). He had painful sores in his mouth and wasn't interested in eating, drinking, talking, or moving ...he was a big lump on a log for several days. One day I can't home from work to find Tyler and Mom (thank you!) in this position, which apparently they had already been in for several hours...

But he seems to be fully recovered; after 3 days off school, he returned yesterday just in time for his school trip to the pumpkin patch. We will be headed off for adventures in Disney Land tonight and I expect that show up on the blog here one of these months...