Cupid's Cup 5K- One Down!

My goal to celebrate the Fabulous 50 is to do ten 5K's this year. Completed #1 today! It was fun- Morgan went with me- she ended up walking it- she prefers the water, for sure.

In the works: Vegetable Soup

So all my peeps know I love the fruit and vegetable fabric. Now, I get to use it all in one quilt.

This Moment

A Friday ritual, a single photo, no words- capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

Yarn Nerd

I had a new client this morning at work- somehow we got talking about crafting and yarn... I really enjoyed talking with this lady- we talked about the yarn shop on East Blvd. About just liking to go in there and look at all the colors, feel the different textures... I said I am part of a group of women who are yarn and fabric nerds- and we are proud of it! Gotta love my job when I get to do this.

5K tomorrow- Cupid's Cup in Charlotte- my first of my turning 50 TEN 5K's!!! Pictures will be posted if I survive.

HS State Championships

We returned from Cary around 11:30 last night- it was a very long, but fun day. The Pine Lake girls did great! It was bittersweet for Morgan since it was her last HS meet. Out of 71 teams, Pine Lake girls came in 15! Morgan came in 5th in the 500 free, 10th overall in the 200 free and the 200 free relay came in 7th, 400 free relay came in 10th. Here are some pics from the 200 free finals heat- she finished 2nd in her heat, but took time off from the morning- her time is 4 seconds faster than this meet last year!

Challenges/Decisions

I am doing two challenges by Judy at Patchwork Times: one is the UFO challenge to finish my unfinished projects and the other is the Monochromatic challenge. I also work full time and February is a short month. I say this because I am going to have to choose to NOT do one of the challenges in February. My goal is to use up as much of my stash before May when Eric and Monica come back from Japan for a visit.

Here is my UFO: It's a reversible quilt

And here is my Monochromatic (purple) of the month.

The Lemon Quilt

Monica and Eric said that when they have a baby, they will call her Lemon. I don't know if they really will or not but I will always think of her as Lemon. I had this Lemon fabric in my stash, so I did this!

I am trying to use up fabric that I have in the house. One of my main reasons, is when Eric and Monica come in from Japan, Melanie came up with the idea of dropping Eric off in Charlotte for a few days while she, Monica and myself go to MaryJo's Fabric Store. I have put away a lot of money for this trip but I need to use the fabric up that's already in my sewing room. I used some leftovers for the back. I have always liked other people's quilt backs when they used many fabrics for the backing. So here's mine.....

Here is the Lemon Quilt.