I've been a bad blogger

I feel so bad, I haven't put anything up here in over a month! And i've been making things! Not to mention trying to kill myself by working a second job. Anyhoo, i work 65 hours a week and try to do quilty things.

Finished projects:
reversible apron i made up myself
crayon box quilt top, scrappy (from bonnie at quiltville)
backing for quilt top (pieced from my stash)

Ongoing Projects:
quilt crayon box quilt "in the ditch"
reversible apron for me (Josephine from A is for apron) already cut out
organise stash
spend way too much money on fabric
make onesies with little applique cuteness
gaze longingly at the behemoth of a denim quilt on my wall, and hope it will finish itself soon

Since i have no time i have been doing so well at growing my stash, since shopping is easier and less time consuming than the actual quilting. I feel like it is actually worthy to be called a stash, instead of "those 3 pieces of cotton i own." The only reason it has been growing at all is because of a wonderful store where i can buy a yard for 1.69. Its flat fold, but most of the stuff on top is also out on the floor, they just have too much. So now i have so much yummy fabric. I have only brought home 2 pieces from the flat fold that felt like polyester after i washed them. which was weird because i then went and found them on the bolt and they are 100% cotton. So i don't know why its like that. But if you are ever in Huntington beach/fountain valley California, go to jenny's fabrics. the flat fold alone is worth it, plus they have all the new new pretty stuff for about a dollar a yard less than the fancy quilt shop not so far away. But i try not to look at that because i can buy so much in the flat fold. there is a lot of it.

I got my fabric from the swap with quiltpixie, its so cute, thank you so much, yours will be in the mail before thanks giving at least, if i don't get there sooner. its all ready to go, its just making the trip to the post office, or having my husband do that.

i have definitely been reading blogs, i just spend all my time at work on the weekends looking at blogspot sites (the work computer will only show me google related sites) so if you don't do blogspot, sorry, i haven't seen your page. But i want to! when i have a few minutes of not work time for lazing around with the computer.

OOH!!! i am also going to go the the Ontario California quilt show in January, road to California. I will not be taking classes, as i don't have the money, but i do plan on going to meet quilters and see all the beautiful stuff. Lucky for me i can drive there, or else i wouldn't be going.

My new goal is to blog weekly, and add pictures, its so much more fun with pictures.

Codi

Very First Post

Well, First of all, I've never blogged before, but I've been reading some other quilting blogs here and there, and I love them, so I thought I'd start my own. So here's me.

I'm Codi, I am 22, married for 2 months, and setting up an actual room entirely devoted to being crafty. I'm so excited about my room, it has all my craft stuff in one area, and spread out so I can find it or just see whats there. Huge improvement from the 3 huge plastic bins everything was in before, I love it. I have been crocheting since Jr. high school, and I make scarves and beanies, cause those go fast, and I do a lot of baby blankets, I love giving those away, and my largest piece I made for my honey when we were dating, was a twin sized afghan I made my own pattern for, I love it. I've tried knitting, but I crochet so much faster its never stuck with me, and I've had various sewing projects here and there.

I've been working on a gorgeous, don't-know-what-on-earth-I'm-doing crazy quilt, using a couple years worth of old jeans of mine, and a few stolen from sibs goodwill bags. There will be 30 blocks total, making a king size bed spread, and I am using Fat quarters to piece my patches on the blocks. Once I have them pieced I am embroidering the raw edges (raw edges being nicer to my machine and fingers than trying to get through all those edges folded together). I am also stitching in some quotes from favorite books and Bible verses, and putting something pretty whenever I feel like it. Its a beast of a thing for a very first ever quilt project, and I love it, but I should have started smaller I think. Go big or go home I guess. Also, I started this quilt in November 2006 thinking it would be finished by summer (2007), then by my wedding, which was 2 months ago.

Anyhoo, I need to piece 7 more blocks, and prettify about 20, then join them all and hope they even out somehow. Didn't realise fat quarters are not all cut to the same exact size at the start, so all the blocks are different sizes. Luckily I'm not a perfectionist and no ones going to notice if my edges are funky right? I can fix that later right?

I also bought my first rotary cutter the other day, and was very excited because they were on clearance since no one wanted the flowery ones (I guess). So I bought 2, and together they were still cheaper than a replacement blade, woo for the clearance rack. I also picked up a mat and 2 rulers, but those I had to pay for. I've never seen those things on sale, but I shopped around for a while, and they're all the same price. I still don't know how (or when for that matter) I'll finish this behemoth, but I'm very optimistic that someday it will be on my bed, in one finished piece.

Anyone who knows where to get a quilt frame for a reasonable price, and reasonable is free, or less than $200, let me know. I really want a Grace z44, so I don't have to baste it, (I will definitely be hand quilting this thing, I'd just rather get it all off the floor and not use a hoop or those PVC frames) but the $300 I found it for is still too much. I'm praying for it, but at the rate I'm going with this quilt I've got some time yet.

Pictures will be posted, I promise, I need to start documenting this quilt anyway, so there will be pictures, but probably on monday since I work all weekend.