Finished Just In Time

How lucky to finish the floral baby quilt the night before baby Kate arrived?!

Yes, I was late getting it worked on, but then again,

baby Kate was late too!!

So much cuteness!

I finished this Saturday night and Kate arrive around 8 o'clock Sunday morning!

It must have her name right?!

I decided I wanted as little quilting as I could get away with.   I wanted it to drape soft soft soft as much as possible.  Stitched in the ditch around the blocks and the purple sashing with a little echo

quilting around the flower shapes.

The border has simple line stitching……perfect.

The flowers are all sewn down using the raw edge method.  These edges will fray and ruffle up

with use and hide the stitching. (i hope)

So here you go Kate.  Your little quilt all ready for you when you get home.  Your mom had a hard time in getting you here and I think maybe you will get home today.  I can't wait to give it!!!

Measures 54" x 46".

This pattern is called "French Roses" by Heather French.

Thanks sooooo much to all you gals from my previous post who commented and helped me decide on

the best border fabrics to use!!

A big thank you to Leanne from Kwilt Me Kiwi for sharing with me how she quilted this same pattern for one of her customers.  It sure helped me in my quilting decision.

While working on this we found out there is to be ANOTHER little girl 

added to OUR family.

So, there may be another one of these quilts in the future!!

Ok…What Do YOU Think?

During and in-between coughing fits I did manage to get "Nancy's" (more on Nancy in a moment) quilt top all pieced together.

I LOVE this sweet little flower top!

SOOOO,

it's time for some borders.

Tell me which one you prefer.  I think any of them would work but would like some help

in deciding.  I have defiently decided on the purple as the first 'tiny' border.

Let me know your favorite!

I thought I was making this quilt for "NANCY" but as it turns out "Nancy" is 

KATE!

Note to self:  never trust a man (hubby) with the important details.  It's HIS employees baby and so I thought he would know all the pert-nants!  He told me her name was going to be Nancy and they were going to induce labor on the 2nd of this month.

None of it true!!  LOL!

I had planned to maybe put her name on it somewhere!  

Sooooo glad I got delayed and didn't sew the name NANCY on it already!!!

I do have a preference in the border choices but would 

like to know which one YOU like.

( ooooo, these photos look more yellow than it is in person!  It's much softer in tones)

 hack!…….. cough!

Something CUTE and SWEET

For seven years I've wanted to make this quilt!

(that's how long I've had the pattern)

And now I have a reason.

Her name is 

NANCY

and

she will be here sometime Tuesday.

One of our employees is having a baby and I thought I had a little more time to do this, but isn't that

how it always goes?!

This is my first block and the others are all prepared and ready for the flowers to be sewn down.  It is

just so stinkin' cute in person!

More on this later!

Friday Flowers

African Violets are a VERY good thing!!

I like them!!!

I LOVE THEM!


I have been raising these for years.  They are really very easy to maintain.  They need fertilizer, south or west window and most important but simple, just always water them from the bottom.  They bloom like this for months and about the time the blooms start fading they are putting on NEW ones.  I have some pale pink and white ones too.

This blog post is courtesy of THE NEW blogger interface.  YEY ME!  Thanks to all the gals who gave me great TIPS and SUGGESTIONS on my previous post.  I guess I just never read any of the blogger info or watched any of the helpful videos.  This was sooooo easy!  THANKS BLOGGER BUDDIES!!!