My friend Stacey and Me

 

My husband and I have a long time friend named Stacey that is an artist. She has recently begun teaching at a high school in El Paso, Texas. She recently designed a couple of drawings through her lesson planning for her classes. My husband suggested that I should make one or both into a quilt. To which Stacey has offered to make more designs for me to turn into quilts. So although I have a few more things on my list of projects to complete I will be starting to quilt one of these for Stacey as a sample. Wonder where this will take us with this collaboration between her drawing designs and me quilting them.

 

 

Time to pick a picture and figure out how much fabric I will need. I get to go get the fabric tomorrow and get started.

Apron

Last summer when my mom came out to visit she brought aprons that she made for each of the kids. They love them and have used them plenty since she was here. Though since then I have had to redo two of them. The first one was last year around Thanksgiving I think. My son had worn his while helping bake, then left it on the floor instead of in the hamper to be washed. The dogs loved chewing it but it was saved and had to just get made a little smaller. The latest victim of the dogs chewing was not as lucky. It had to have a complete reconstruction done, but the little guy who it belongs to still likes it and is happy we could at least save it. The apron is just not a big one that goes up over the chest and ties behind the neck anymore. Although in reconstructing it for him I learned that the guys who work at one of my family's favorite restaurant wear this kind of apron, guess. Guess I never noticed but do you blame me, I am always busy trying to help the little kids pick what they want to eat or something.  We are always a large group after all.