Even more pink!

Today my friend Mary is hosting a baby shower for Jenny.

How sweet is that?

Since Jenny is on her way over here right now and

will be away from the computer until AFTER the shower

I am posting a picture of the quilt I made for her

and will give to her today.

This quilt is just a simple "rag" quilt and Jenny

even picked out the fabric on a recent trip to M&L,

but she hasn't seen it together and she didn't

know I was going to do embroidery on it.

I have a rag quilt in my living room and it is so soft

and very warm and it is Jenny's favorite quilt to

use when she is over here and cold.

She has wanted a quilt just like it for years!

I'm pretty sure that she is going to like this one!

This is the label I made for the back of the quilt.

We are off to the shower in a few hours.

I'm pretty sure that I'll have a few pictures to share!

Design Wall Monday

Greetings!

Design wall Monday has come and gone lately with nothing new

on it, but today I have a very important quilt on it!

This quilt will contain the greetings from the

baby shower attendees from yesterday.

Here is a close-up of a couple of the blocks:

This is just the beginning.  I'll sew these blocks together and add special touches.
Like I know that this mother is decorating her nursery with butterflies, so I am planning on adding some butterflies.... appliqued, embroidered and probably quilted in as well.  I won't finish this quilt until AFTER the wee babe is born so I can add in the time she was born and weight. 

Here is another baby quilt that I designed for a baby shower:

Mom to be was decorating with a giraffe theme.

Circle of Life

It has been a week of heartbreaking sadness

 grieving the death of a dear friends husband

and great happiness with the celebrations of

the upcoming arrivals of 2 new baby girls

It's the Circle of Life.

The funeral on Thursday was a bittersweet reminder

of how short life can be and how it is really important

to live each day like it was your last.

It was hard to watch the sadness of the ones

left behind, but uplifting to know that the strong

faith that they have in God will see them thru this.

On the other side of the spectrum I had the great joy

of celebrating the April arrivals of sweet baby girls.

On Saturday one of my jazzercise instructors

taught her last class until after the birth of her baby.

After class we had a little shower for her.

and today I attended the baby shower of a young lady whom

I've had the privilege of watching grow up.

Her mom made some great centerpieces for the shower:

This is a tricycle made of diapers

and receivng blankets

The cake table was decorated with picture frames

that spelled out the baby's name.

These will grace the walls of the nursery.

The baby carriage below was also made of diapers.

And at the end of the shower she passed the

"Grandma to be" banner off to me!