Thank You, Amy

Amy, from A Quilting Sheep, so sweetly sent me not just a baby quilt, but three quilts and a toy.  What a generous lady!  I feel awful for taking so long to put them up here, but things have been wild around here...  Anyway, here they are and be sure to take a moment and admire them because, let me tell you, this woman does beautiful work.  I am not sure if I am more impressed with the fabrics, the piecing, or the quilting.  (And no, Amy, I am not trying to flatter you, I mean it.) 

I love the dresden corners and soft chenille borders on Thea's quilt!

Bettina and Odelia were soon using their quilts to wrap up their babies too.

My good girls love their quilts!  Odelia shares hers with Thea sometimes because it makes her feel nice, but Bettina likes to sleep with hers draped over her pillow.  As for Thea, I think the more she spits up on something, the more she likes it.  At least, I hope that is the case because she usually succeeds in making a mess of me!

She really likes her quilt, so we protect it.  :)

Thank you so much, Amy.  Our quilts were such a lovely gift and the older girls really enjoy distracting Thea with the toy.  Your thoughtfulness is appreciated.

Easter Basket Birdies

Those bitty beaks look more like bills...

Perhaps the birdie pattern should have been a "duckie" pattern?

Cute either way!

A birdie (or duck!) for each of my little chickies.  Every time I see them, I think of Bob Marley.  (Confused?  Listen here.)  The project page for my duck-birds is here.

Hope you had a Happy Easter!

She's Here!

Doesn't she look like a doll?

She has finally arrived!  Our littlest darling was born this past week.  She weighed 7 pounds and 5 ounces and was about 20 inches long.  We thought long and hard about her name and are pleased with what we ultimately settled on - I do wish I could share it with you here.  For blogging purposes, we will call her "Thea."

So sweet!

Thea is the calmest, sleepiest baby you can imagine.  Even rousing her to nurse is nearly impossible.  What a change from my two little fireballs!

In case you are wondering, the hat, socks, and dress have been posted previously.

Market Garden Happenings

I love spring!  It always gets me so excited about the year's garden plans and fills my head with grand dreams of what we could eventually accomplish.  Here are some of the delights we have pulled from the garden so far:

wonderfully crispy lettuce

gigantic Spanish radishes

super nutritious beet greens

Ruby Red Grapefruit

Fordhook Giant Chard and a forest of dill

buckets of red radishes

the occasional egg

pounds of mesclun

chocolate bell peppers

Meyer lemons

and lots and lots of "volunteers" waiting to be discovered.

Hexie Flower Bibs

These fabrics are left over from a quilt I made for my Aunt.

These bibs were made the same way as the Reversible Baby Bibs, but instead of using printed cotton I appliqued English paper-pieced hexagon flowers to a plain white bib front before sewing the fabric layers together.

The flower fabrics are scraps from some old projects.

Before this, I never realized how relaxing hand-sewing is.  I made a a bunch more flowers that are looking for a home and feel I may tackle an English paper-pieced quilt someday!