Finished Project

First off, third trimester is finally here!  Only about 11 1/2 weeks to go.  (Yikes)  And, actually, if she decides to be like big brother Noah - she would be here in about 8 1/2 weeks...  That's only 2 months.  I'm still feeling pretty good.  Heart burn is horrible and nasty.  Getting off the floor is not easy.  I've limited my shoe choices to those that do not include bending over to put on.  :)  Other than that - it's been great.  My energy level is still pretty high most days.  I can get around fairly well.  Sleep, when not interrupted by heart burn (yes, that is the WORST way to wake up) has been really good.  I'm enjoying seeing and feeling all her movements.  I think she is head down - at least that would be my guess, but we'll see what the Dr says.  I have an appointment next week - and then I think I will be on to the every two week appointments.  OH - ha - I guess I did forget the one little snag in this whole process.  I did fail my one hour glucose screening test (Again! - I did with Noah too) so I have to go in Saturday for a 3 hour test to see if I have gestational diabetes.  I passed the 3 hour with Noah, so I'm hoping for the same results.  We shall see.  And according to the, let's compare your growing baby to a food guide, baby is as big as an eggplant.

Now on to the crafty side of things. I finally finished one of my "secret" projects.  A baby quilt for my sweet nephew, who will be 2 months old tomorrow.  I started it before he was born, shortly after they showed off their nursery.  I don't have many pictures for it, and I don't have a finished picture. Lame I know....  This is a result of putting the final stitch in the binding a few hours before taking it to give them while they were in town visiting paired with my horribly addled pregnancy brain forgetting to get my camera out and take a picture of it.

I found the pattern at the Moda Bake Shop.  However, instead of using a precut pack, I bought yardage.  So there is a bit less variety in the fabrics.  The middle row I had accidentally got things turned around and had put the sides and tops/bottoms on the wrong place.  So the middle squares would have been off, if I had lined up the borders correctly, and lining up the middle squares correctly would have made the borders opposite of the rest of the quilt.  So I decided to try to have the middle squares correct, and just let the border be off....  I didn't think it would make a difference... boy did it ever.  It was pretty horrible.  The corners were so far off...  So it was off for some seam ripping time.  What quilt/ blanket of mine would be complete without a little seam ripping time loss....   So I got that taken care of.

Then I realized that I really wanted to add a border?/strip? (my quilting vocabulary is not very extensive) between the pieced together squares and the border.  I didn't really think much about how wide to make it, except to what I thought would look nice.  Well......  I realized after I added the white border that had I done a little math, I could have made it so that I just could have added an extra square or two to the border, when in reality, I was going to have smaller rectangles on the ends now.... because I didn't think that far ahead.  But I didn't think it really mattered all that much, and it really didn't.  I think it looks ok still. Then I realized that it went further than that.  Adding the white border also meant that my backing was no longer big enough.  D'oh. But that was a simple fix with a row of squares on the back.  I was actually glad for this mistake because I really like having it on the back like that.

So that was all the glitches I dealt with...  Other than that, it was a fairly easy quilt to piece.  As for the quilting, I hand quilted it.  It really didn't take all that long.  I just quilted in the ditches (I think (and hope) that's what it is called.)  Basically around all the piecing - except for in the border.  For the binding I didn't have enough of one fabric, so I just alternated the dark orange fabric and the blue branch fabric. I have been promised to be sent pictures of it - since it is now currently about 2 hours North of me - and soon will be heading its way to TX.  As soon as I get those pictures I'll post them as well.

Texas!

So I went to Texas.
The weather the first few days was like this: (In other words - cold (think 30s), dreary)

But that wasn't the reason for visiting Texas.  HE was!

3rd cutest baby boy I ever did see. ;)

Live long and prosper toes

Proud grandparents :)

Miss this guy already.

Already getting the multitasking down pat - and with chop sticks even. :)

Amazing new Mommy!

Backseat buddy on the way to the coast.

First stroller adventure.

Weather at the end, think upper 60s and sunny

I got to go visit my brother, sister, and their new baby!!  It was a very relaxing trip.  There was mostly eating, lounging, playing Wii, watching TV, and of course loving on the little one.  He is such a good baby!!  (Knocking on wood that he remains that way. :))  We were all ready and willing to take a night shift, but it wasn't needed as he would eat and fall right back asleep. And he does, of course, have wonderful parents.  They, at least to me, seemed to be doing just great!  Adjusting to this new adventure called parenting.  I think they are up for the challenge. :)  I can't wait to see how he grows and changes.  Although I wish we could see him more often, I am so thankful for modern technology and all the ways that we will be able to stay in contact and see pictures and videos. 

Being there definitely has me thinking about June - anticipating all the wonderful things, preparing mentally for the not so fun things. :)  But all of it all so worth it.

Oh, and in case anyone was wondering - there were no body scans or pat downs.  I didn't even see any happening - but then again we did leave out of small regional airports both times.  Love flying out of small airports.  I think we waited in line for security for 5 minutes on the way out and about 30 minutes on the way back.  Quick.