Hexagon Love

I finished the hexagon table runner!  It ended up being too short for the buffet, where it was intended to be, but fits perfectly on the table and I have more hexagon plans for the buffet in the future... Unfortunately, it isn't going to be on the table very long because I made this to be our everyday table runner and I have a fall something being made right now.  After Christmas it should have a nice long stretch out of the closet and will hopefully have a coordinating companion on the buffet.  Please don't mind the quilt on the chair seat, but that is Tigger's favorite chair to lay on and the blanket is a quick fix to cat-hair-on-your-rear-end syndrome.  I forgot to take it off before I took the picture (and all of the stuff on the cupboard too).  :)

I am enjoying the fact that it matches our wedding china's soft gray band.  We don't use our china very often right now, but I feel like this dresses it down a bit so I think we will use it more often.

~ hand quilted love ~

I even gave some napkins hexagon love by hand stitching a leftover hexagon in the corner.  The napkins are made out of flour sack towels!  :)

Even better, Sew Mama Sew is having a contest right now for handmade tableware.  I love it when it works out like that.  Hopefully I'll win a sweet prize to fund the next project.  :)

Homecoming Parade 2012

This week was homecoming in Gregory and we enjoyed a great parade and football game on a perfect weather day.  For context, the theme of the parade was "Disney movies" and our school mascot is a gorilla and we were playing against the Braves.  Unfortunately for the braves, they were crushed 65-14 and the game only lasted until halftime because of the score.  Some of our parade favorites:

The past week:

(In no particular order)

1. Table runner - It is almost done!  I have been working on the hand quilting this past week and finished it in the car today.  I am hoping that I can get the binding on it tonight so over the next day or 2 it will be finished!

2. Tomatoes from our garden - 13 pints of quartered tomatoes done.  Hopefully another batch before it gets too chilly...

3. Trip to Sioux Falls - We left after church on Sunday and came back today, so a quick trip.  We had a doctors appointment first thing this morning, so instead of waking up at the crack of dawn and potentially hit a deer (which is what happened the first time we tried to get to this appointment) we stayed at a hotel and spent the evening walking around Falls Park and going out to dinner with a crabby toddler.  :)  Unfortunately, we really didn't sleep in any later than we would have if we had to get up to drive, but at least we were laying in bed while Timothy sat between us watching Disney Junior at 6 am...

4. Apple Picking!  On our way out of Sioux Falls, we stopped at an orchard south of the city and picked 3/4 of a bushel of Cortlands and Jonathons.  A good chunk of them of them are currently simmering in my crock pot, melting into apple butter....

5. Baby Quilt - I have no pictures of it!  Oops.  :)  A rainbow striped quilt made following a tutorial on Cluck, Cluck, Sew.  I pieced the top in about an hour on Thursday night, sandwiched it on Friday, quilted it on Friday and Saturday, and put the binding on Saturday night.  It was thrown in the wash on Saturday night and the dryer sometime in the middle of the night when I was up with Timothy.  Taken to church and give on Sunday morning.  :)  It was my first free-motioned quilt...meandering line with a few loops thrown in.  So exciting and so much more practice needed in this area!  

Next up, hosting the wives of our church circuit tomorrow afternoon, and cleaning the house before they get here!  :)

Just a little song