Bloggers Quilt Festival Entry Spring 2010

I totally posted this on the wrong blog! Ugh! Oh well, enjoy the quilt..... It should have been at www.lymericky.blogspot.com.

I love the bloggers quilt festival! It's so much fun to look at every quilt and get ideas for the coming six months.

Here's my entry:

I made this quilt for a friend having a baby boy. It was a really good project to try out new stuff. This was the first time I've quilted shapes using my machine. I was astonished at how easy it was to do--

• First I found clip art online.
• I printed it out and then cut out the shape.
• Using a water-soluble marker, I traced the pattern onto the fabric.
• Then I quilted the pattern using free motion quilting
• The stippling helps to give each design added depth
• Then I sprayed the markings with water to make them disappear

The quilt was pretty easy to put together, but I thoroughly enjoyed the process.

So far behind...

I'm so far behind on this blog! I can't even begin to catch up. But, if you would like to see all the photos from our recent trip to Baltimore, click here to watch the photobook slideshow -- you'll have to scroll down a little bit to see the whole thing.

This trip was definitely one of my most favorites. The kids were so much fun and we packed everything in that we possibly could. We saw great friends, but I didn't take a single picture of them. So dumb! We ate tons of great food. We did everything we could -- Port Discovery, Baltimore Aquarium, National Zoo, church, Ocean City and Assateague. Phew! We're still tired from all the fun!

Here's a couple of photos for those that don't want to watch the photo book slide show: