Reed's Quilt: Fabric

Here are the fabric pieces I've received in the last few days for Reed's Quilt- 20 envelopes in the last 3 days!







 







The blue/green larger piece of fabric is for the backing of the quilt, everything else is a quarter yard of colored fabric and a 4"x6" piece of muslin signed with the user IDs of the board members. This is going to be interesting to piece together!

Jean Skirt Reconstruction

I've been hunting for a good pair of jeans to reconstruct into a skirt- I'm apparently the last crafty person on earth to do such a thing. My excuse? I've really been waiting for the perfect pair of jeans, and I've *just* started sewing this summer.

Pics from the recon:

The jeans before cutting- they were actually capris, just below my knees, already frayed around the bottom. I loved the faded pattern and the diagonal seams across the legs. I found these at my local Good Will store for $3.



Pinning . . .



... and sewing ...



And the finished product!

Adjusting

I'm playing with my theme and widgets today, so please accept my apologies for everything moving around all the time! I'll get it all re-done tonight.

Zoo

These pictures are from about 3 weeks ago- Brian and I had the same day off (which rarely happens unless it's Sunday!) But they are so cute I thought I'd share a few.


Ender's Favorite Animals from the trip:

The area in the picture below is two stories tall, and we were standing on the top floor where you can see the birds up close. On the bottom floor were serveral tortoises... tortoise... however you spell the plural of tortoise! Ender stood in fascination for a long time on both floors.

And a few fun pictures of Ender and Ezra:

Reed's Quilt

I wrote last week about the loss of a friends little one. Our board is putting together a quilt in his memory and each member is sending fabric that reminds them of little Reed. I just received the first bit of fabric in the mail yesterday and I will be getting pieces in over the next week from the United States, Canada, the UK-- all to honor a little boy we grew to love and adore even though we never met him face to face.

I will be posting progress here as I receive pieces and as I work on the quilt. My mother is helping with design and piecing and a friend of hers who is a fabulous machine quilter has graciously agreed to make room in her quilting schedule to quilt the project as soon as it is complete so that we can send the quilt out as soon as possible.

This is just a small bit of what we are able to do in rememberance of our board's little lion, Reed.