Category Archives: Family

Big News – Jim and I are expecting baby number two in early May!  Little Jimmy will be a big brother.  We could not be more excited, as we prepare for the new addition to our family.  Boy or girl, we won’t find out the gender until the birthday.  Until then, we have a few months for the quilt room transformation to Jimmy’s bedroom to occur.

Also, I am back to sewing after a two month break.  I traded in my “sewing time” for “nap time” or “go to bed early time”.  My energy levels are finally picking up and my entire Saturday was dedicated to quilting.  My sewing machine was happy for my return and was humming along yesterday!

As for another exciting piece of news in our household, Jimmy is now wearing glasses!  He has been in awe of everything now that he can see!  Here is a picture of him sporting his new style.  He is hanging out on the quilt that his Grandma (my mom) made for him.  I took full quilt shots of this quilt and I will share later this week

I loved my old wordpress theme.  It had a main home page with summary posts, a featured portfolio page, and a picture heading for each blog post.  It was wonderful, but was way too time consuming.  For each post, I needed a minimum of four pictures of various dimensions — mostly panoramic.  Thus, for each blog post, I spent hours resizing photos.  Although I loved my old theme, it was time to let go and revert back to a simple blog theme.  With help from my husband, the craftedAngles theme was updated.  There is even a facebook plug-in too!

With a basic blogging theme, I will have more time to quilt and the frequency of my blog posts should increase — you will have to hold me to it!

I also have an updated banner depicting the quilting process, as my blog is a documentation of these steps.

Do you recognize any of these quilts?

Here is the other reason that I need a basic blog.  Rather than resizing images, I want to hang out with these two guys.  Our little man is now 10 months old.