Patterns

The colors aren't exactly right, I tried to get them close, but it's more of a guideline so I know what goes where. You can see the fabrics here.

Anyway, here are my patterns. What do you think?

Quilt #1

Quilt #2

The squares are 6"x6", and the quilts themselves are going to be 6'x7'. The border on #2 is 6" wide. I don't think I am going to do a border on #1, unless I find a fabric that is just right. I will also worry about the backing later... :0)

fixin's and trimings

Now that I have bought all my fabric, I put together some patterns that I want to do, and am ready to get started.

But I need to wash my fabrics....


And I neglected to note what the washing instructions were on each of the fabrics...

Help!!

Any suggestions on how I should go about it? I am pretty sure that they are all cotton, or a blend thereof...

I was thinking cold water wash/tumble dry.

Do I wash them together, or do each fabric separate? There is about two yards of each fabric, standard folded in half, and I have 7 different fabrics....


I should have thought of this earlier.... grrr.

This and that...

I have all of my graduation tassels hanging from my printer feed tray, I was looking at them the other day and realized that since I graduated from High School I have graduated every two years!
High School in 2002, Junior College in 2004, and Cal Poly (just barely, December Graduation) in 2006... I guess I am a high achiever??

My Family came out to visit last weekend, bringing with them my aunt Jill from MN, who wasn't able to make it out for the wedding, so she had to meet Kyle and "approve". :0)

It was foggy out in the bay, but nice and sunny in Avila...

My Aunt Jill. She didn't know I was taking this picture. She probably wouldn't approve... :0)

My Mom (Kim), Dad (Steve), and Aunt Jill

I have been popping into Beverly's Fabric every couple of weeks and looking in their 50% off bins and have found quite a few fabrics that I really like and that go together so that I can eventually make a quilt. I buy 2 yards of the fabrics I like, so I am sure to have plenty!! I have never done this before (made a quilt), so we will see how dedicated I stay and how it turns out... :0) Thought I would share the fabrics with you.

I actually have fabrics that don't go well together, so I will make two quilts eventually.... First colors

I Love the Little Bumble Bees on this one!!! and the color is fairly acurate.


This one looks very orange, it is actually a nice picnic blanket red and white.



The yellow is off a bit in this one, but you can see the checkered details.


Next Quilt fabrics...

Color is pretty accurate, a light pink, I have a lot of this, it was a hand-me down.


The color is off, it is a nice pink, with some white, with little red flowers.


A cute pink check, it was always off when I took the picture closer, so it is from a distance. Sorry.

A cute medium blue with pink, yellow, blue flowers.


I love this one!! it has little dragonflies all over it! it is actually a pair of pajama pants that I found and have wanted to use for while! the color seems pretty accurate.

So that's my fabric. Maybe I will actually make it into something... :0)

everybody goes, awwwww....

Okay, so, um, this could possibly be the cutest puppy that God has ever created... and I want it! so so so adorable!!!

yahoo!?

For the last two days I haven't been able to access Yahoo! I only use it for my email, and it's my junk email account at that, but if I don't check it at least daily it becomes a massive chore to wade through all the stuff I get to make sure there isn't actually something in there I want to read! Kyle says he can access it at work, so I think it might just be our internet connection, but everything else is connecting just fine...


I am so excited for tomorrow night's Grace Summer Nights! I love talent shows so much!! I thought about entering, but didn't know what I would do. I have a staple that I do for talent shows, it is a hula dance to Shout to the Lord, but a friend and I got into trouble once for performing it at a bible study talent night (it was too suggestive because of the hip movements. They really aren't that bad I don't think) and it has been performed at my parent's church on Sunday morning with no issue, but they are a little more... relaxed? than Grace is, and I just wasn't sure how it would go over.... I also didn't think I had enough time to prepare something to sing, or find a monologue that I could memorize fast enough. So, long story short, I will be sitting in the audience, laughing, crying, and enjoying it a lot!


My parents, brother and aunt, from MN, are coming out this weekend! Just for a day, but it will be great to see them, especially my aunt Jill, I haven't seen her in a couple years!! Will take pictures and post them (hopefully)!

My sister is coming out in 3 weeks!!!! yay for sister time!!! she is my best friend and I love her to pieces!!

Wedding pics Part 1

As promised.....





The Church



We get very emotional in my family... Me and My sister Abby


Waiting to go into the church


The wedding party



Showin' off the garter!

Wedding Pics Part 2

New siblings


It was breezy, so we just let the veil do it's thing...


I have a very big family now!


My sister, me, and my tan sister...


They are "serious" about being brothers!

Wedding Pics Part 3

Us


Kyle got a break from pictures for a bit and hung out with my Daddy


Just me... odd face, because the photographer was still giving me instructions


First dance. Sadly I don't have pics of the Father Daughter Dance yet... :0(


Run away!!!! They had filled the car with balloons and covered it with streamers and written on the windows, and then they pelted us with silly string!!!

Mrs. Haughey

So, as of today I am officially and legally Mrs. Carrie Haughey.

1 hour at social security, mostly spent waiting
1 hour at the DMV, 40 mins. sitting and waiting, 10 talking to the clerk, and another 10 waiting in line to get my picture taken.
1/2 hour at the bank getting all those accounts changed.

The only thing I wish I had had was a book to help pass the time. People watching isn't as fun when they are all sitting too...

Wedding pictures will be coming soon. I personally don't have any right now. My mother has a few, but I need to get those from her and once I do, they will go up. The professional ones won't be ready for about a month... :0( those will go up too, once we get them.

Honeymoon

in Tahoe. It is very nice up here. There is a fire in South Shore, it is kind of big, but we are about 50 miles away, so we should be safe. We can smell the smoke, but other then that everything is normal. We haven't done much the last couple days, just relaxed, but the rest of the week is going to be fairly packed. Will update later...