ABC Quilt

I haven't updated any other sewing besides my star sampler, so here is a quilt in progress.  Check out the quilting!  I have been learning how to free motion quilt and this if by far the best to date!  I just need to trim a few threads, bind, and wash this little blankie and it will be ready for the little boy it is intended for.  Official stats and better (natural light) pictures to come in the next day or two.

I also have 2 quilts for my local quilt guild that are ready to be quilted, but I need to pick up the batting first, so pictures of those two will be hopefully up soon too.  No more stars to report - we had 2 trips to Sioux Falls this week and our washer has been broken for TWO WEEKS.  Much time was being spent in the car and money is still being spent at the laundromat....

Back to Sioux Falls, we met with the pediatric cardiologist and we don't have to go back for another year!  So exciting.  He didn't even feel the need to do an echocardiogram at this appointment.  The murmur from one of his holes was still there, but everything seems stable and his ekg was normal too.  No medications and no restrictions on activity.  Double hooray!

Still Canning...

Just because our garden is turned under for the season and the nights are too cold for most things to grow doesn't mean I am done canning...  :)

I picked up 4 bags of cranberries the other day (yay for being in season and on sale!) and whipped up 9 half pints of jellied "canned" sauce with a little leftover for dinner tonight.  It really is pretty easy.  The hardest part was waiting for my water bath to come up to a boil - it seems to take forever!  I followed this recipe and from what I tasted already, it is amazing!  I plan on doing another batch while I can still get cranberries and make some pint jars.  I have a feeling that some of these will be Christmas gifts...

Happy Halloween!

Look out for the shark!  :)

He really didn't enjoy the head....

Yay, the hat is off!

Earlier today, Timothy helped daddy carve the pumpkin...

Whatever Timothy does, kitty now does too.  I was encouraging Timothy to smell the pumpkin, in hopes of him actually touching it (which he did a little later), and so kitty did the same.  Keep your eyes peeled for future posts on kitty's adventures...

And then he got a little silly and felt the need to lick the pumpkin...

I don't know what else to say...

:)

Right or Left?

What do you think this little boy will be: left-handed or right-handed?  By the way, this is the face I get when I asked for a smile.  I don't get the big toothy grins as often as I used to.  And he just woke up from a nap, so the bed head will be apparent in the following pictures...

Right?

Left?

Right?

Left?

Who knows!