Wedding Quilts

Okay, this is a extremely overdue post! But I just have to show off the quilts that my mom and my aunt made for my husband's and my wedding.... which was over a year ago! But to be fair my mom didn't finish hers till this last winter.

Mom's Quilt:

My mom made this quilt out of a bunch of my husband's and my old jeans. And yes, it's very wrinkled. But it's super heavy so it's been folded up in the closest all summer and there was no way I was gonna try to iron it.

I love how she used the pockets!

She even embroidered our names and our wedding date!

My mom is awesome about details. See this yarn. This yarn was leftover yarn that we used on our favors.

And she did this whole quilt without a pattern! My mom is just awesome!


Aunt Donna's Quilt:

Now this quilt is just so pretty! I love the colors and fabrics she choose.

 

See the leaves in the quilting? They are throughout the whole quilt and in the center of each wheel. My aunt said she was so thrilled that the lady who did the quilting did that, and I love it to!

And she's made one of these quilts for each of her nieces that have gotten married (no nephews have gotten married yet)! And there have been several of us! I hope I can do something this awesome for any nieces and nephews I have! But I'm also assuming I'm going to have far fewer nieces and nephews concidering there are 6 kids in my mom's family and I only have 2 sisters and my hubby only has just the 1 sister.

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Maternity Renaissance Dress

This dress is coming along so nicely, but I've got so much I need to do still! The chemise, detachable sleeves and all the trims and adornments that will really make this dress amazing! I was planning on having it wearable come next weekend for a renaissance faire but there was major communication breakdown between the former entertainment directer and the brand new one and the royalty group I travel with got the raw end of the deal and aren't playing the royalty! So this dress is getting put on the back burners for a second time! *sad face* But not all hope is lost for this dress. I for sure get to wear it the end of October! But now I'm going to be at a different faire selling CD's for my awesomely talented husband and the Scoundrels he sings with (I guess they are pretty good to... ok they're awesomely talented to!). So I have to get to work on the maternity stuff for that.

Here's a close up of those pleats. A lot of work, but they look amazing! And don't you love the pink on pink? I just love it! And I'm nearly positive it's 100% cotton fabric and I got for only $2 a yard! You can't get much better than that!

And the trim! Leftovers from another dress I made! Just the perfect amount to, I only have 2" left

And the beefy hook and eyes for front closer. I'm going to put a frog on as well but I know I'm going to need more than one poor little frog trying to keep all that dress together in the front. Just hope these do the trick!

Note to self: Time to repaint fingernails!

And what else have I been working on? Christmas gift making! What am I working on now? One of the only things you can make fuddy duddy penny pinching dutch grandparents that only like useful things and don't need anything for around the house since they keep everything until it falls apart. (I say that will all the love in my heart! It's just who they are. I wouldn't change them for the world!) Socks!

As you can see I've just gotten started on Grandpa's. But don't you love the colors! I have a feeling I'm going to have troubles letting go of the pair for grandma! Such pretty colors! And grandma and grandpa would be so proud, I got the yarn on clearance! 

4 months!... Really?

So it's been nearly 4 months since my last post! EEEK! What a bad blogger I am! But what a busy and exciting 4 months it has been! So lets start at the beginning.....

April and May: I spent April in on mass sewing mode getting ready for the start of my husbands and my Renaissance Faire Season! And at the end of April we started our 8 out of 10 weekends of Faires! Gone on the weekends and sewing during the week. What fun it was but talk about exhausting. Speaking of exhausting....

May, not so exhausting part: May 1st was my husband's and my 1 year wedding anniversary! Yay! One year done, another 50+ to go. But look at what he got me!  

He got me Syphillis, Mono and a White Blood Cell to fight them off. Aren't they cute! They are Giant Microbes! They are on ThinkGeek.com. And my husband bought me the book "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies", which I've just finally started reading. And if you are wondering, yes my husband and I are geeks!

May, the exhausting part: Aside from the nonstop traveling and sewing I had something else tiring me out all month. On May 24th my husband and I found out I'm pregnant! It wasn't planned, I was on the pill and until both the lines turned pink I swore up and down that I wasn't pregnant and it was just stress! Hahaha, the joke was on me! After a few hours of shock my husband and I got super excited. We wanted kids we were just planning on waiting a few more years. But now we wouldn't change a thing! 

June: The day before I found out I was pregnant I started getting all day  nausea... And it stayed and the exhaustion got worse. Way worse. I managed to make it through our last two weekends of faire mostly unscathed beyond a sore foot from a bench falling on it. And for most of the month I took the great liberty of doing not much more than sleeping, eating, going to the bathroom and watching movies. But midway though the month my husband and I went to our first Dr's appointment and we had a sonogram and got to see our little 9 week old gummy bear and it's heartbeat! It's amazing just how real that little picture made things!

July: I finally started having some more energetic days and my all day nausea was now just evening nausea. And it was just in time for me to actually enjoy our 4th of July weekend at my parents house! Where my already showing baby bump just made my family gitty. My parents are so excited for their first grand baby and both of my sisters are super excited for their first niece or nephew. And my dog Jack Jack, whom has been staying with my parents since we moved, finally came home with us. And we brought home one of the kittens that one of my parent's momma cats had. His name is Puck. I'm so happy to finally have fuzzy babies at home with us again!

August (aka:now): As of today I'm 16 weeks pregnant! And yes, relief has come! The nausea is finally gone and I'm getting my energy back! I finally feel like a real person again! YAY! And even more exciting news; I've started feeling the baby move. In fact little one is wiggling about right now!