Sock Monkey Quilt

The sock monkey quilt for baby Petts is done. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. I started with a 1/2 yard of each of the prints except for the off white monkeys with numbers. I bought 3/4 of a yard of that one. The yellow I bought after the fact and it is used for the back as well. The binding is just the backing folded over and sewn into place. I even managed to get pretty neat mitered corners on this one for a change! Woo hoo!

Congrats to mama and papa Petts!

Snow Day

Outside it looked like this:

And like this:

So I stayed inside and did this (better pictures will arrive once I am done with the binding):

Happy New Year!

View from the top of Green Mountain, Dec. 23, 2011

Bringing in the new year with an MI-5 (aka Spooks) marathon and doing some crafting. A pair of new socks on the needles and a quilt sandwich (yummy yummy) in the process of being hand quilted.

Zoo Friends

My Zoo Friends quilt for baby Cian in Ireland. It's a pretty basic log cabin type of pattern and I followed directions from Modern Log Cabin Quilting for the construction. Now onto the next project. : )

T. rex lives

We spent another awesome weekend in the desert, Indian Creek to be specific. My leg is tons better, but sticking it in a crack and torquing it wasn't in the cards. Instead I had fun hiking around in my T. rex costume and hanging out with friends.

Nicole (aka 5 year old super hero) and Aaron (Capt. Kirk) getting ready to go climbing on Saturday. It was noted that my T. rex also resembled the Gorn and later in the day there was an epic recreation of the Kirk vs Gorn battle in the desert. I think Nicole has photographic evidence. : )

Little Jon (aka Bat Boy) and Jaro (aka young papa smurf). Jon's costume was made of an umbrella cut in half and sewn to a black shirt. Super creative.

We even managed to get in a little climbing on Sunday after all the Halloween festivities on Saturday and the longest approach I've ever done at the creek.

All in all a great weekend.

99%

Been reading the 99% blog. The amount of student debt is staggering. I feel very lucky to have not had any student debt.

Happy Birthday Adam!