Our first rag quilt

 I have been wanting to make a rag quilt for about a year now. So about three weeks ago I finally took the plunge and gathered up everything I would need to make one. I finally finished it this past Wednesday. I didn't work on it everyday, just when I had time to sit down at the old sewing machine (she is 16 years old, my husband gave her to me for our first Christmas). I decided that this quilt would be for Kaelyn and she picked out some floral  material that my Mom had in her fabric stash.

Kaelyn wanted to have lots of pink in her quilt, so I went to the fabric store and purchased the pink material to go with it and also some pink for the back of the quilt.

I started out with cutting a "pile" of 5 inch squares out of all the material that I was using. Then I cut out 4 inch squares of the quilt batting. After getting all the squares cut and then stacked, I started sewing my squares together. I put the batting between the top and bottom piece of material and sewed an X on each square. Then it was time to start sewing the squares together. I sewed a row of 9 squares together then after I had all my squares sewn into a row I started putting the rows together. Then came the fun part of sitting down and trimming the seems. Finally our finished rag quilt.

While it is not perfect (rag quilts are so forgiving ☺) it was made with plenty of love. To see the tutorial that I used to make a rag quilt you can go here. 

3D Glasses...Who knew.....

A couple of weeks ago we took Tyler and Kaelyn to see the movie The Adventures of Tintin 3D.

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 It was a good movie, but  (Chuck and I both agree) not worth the money we paid to see it in 3D. Although the extra money we did spend to see it in 3D was worth all the fun that Kaelyn has had with those glasses since we saw the movie, who knew they could be so much fun. She sure has kept us entertained. She popped the lenses out of the frames and those glasses have become a part of her wardrobe.

Kaelyn was in the kitchen the other night and was pouring something at the sink when she says, "Oh no, I can't see my glasses are fogging up." Then when she was getting ready to do her homework one afternoon, she sat down and then jumped up and said, "I've got to get my glasses, I can't see what I'm doing here." She will put them on in the morning and where them to school, but as soon as we pull up to the school she is taking them off, then when she is back in the car in the afternoons, the glasses go back on. Kaelyn has definitely kept us laughing at all her antics with those glasses.

Happy New Year!

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