Babes with Balls of Yarn

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Brown Monochromatic: March 2011

I am calling this the "Ex husband quilt". He is turning 60 in May and both our children will be here (one lives in Japan) for it. I offered it to them, for his birthday gift.

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Sunday, March 27, 2011

I read a ton of blogs for inspiration. I stumbled across this blog last week and it called to me! The Blog is called 15 minutes Play! And here is the quote of how she saw her blog. "The basis of this site is using my 15 MINUTES block, by making fabric from scraps,and or using found pieces and orphans,trying new things, and exploring ourselves!"

I have been tossing premise of her blog around in my head for a week and today I played! Thank you for you blog!

This is what I came up with!

With that said: I am invited to a baby shower today!

This is her gift! A knitted baby blanket and a drawstring bag that I made.

Five Years Ago

Five years ago, I move from the city of Charlotte NC, population in 2010 731,000 to a smaller county about 1 1/2 hours away. The population for the County I live in is 67,000 in 2010. The County is one of the largest county in the state, area wise but not population wise. The town I live in has 4000 people. I say this because after 5 years, I feel like I have made friends, developed better hobbies and know a lot of people especially for being a Long Island girl in small town North Carolina.

I am helping one of my new friends with her small wedding that we are doing a lot of the cooking for. Well, yesterday was practice cooking day. We were to make Raspberry eclairs and chocolate eclairs.

Our first batch was a dud so we tried again and decided to follow ALL the directions. The second batch came out really good. Then we moved on the the Chocolate Eclairs which used a different recipe and this one was even easier and better. So she decided we will make just that recipe for her wedding.

Here are a few pictures of our crazy cooking. The friend, Jenny, has been quilting most of her life and knows so much. After the wedding she is going to help me make a surprise gift for Melanie's birthday/graduation. Thanks so much Jenny!