A tale of two denim skirts

About a month ago, Emily decided she needed a skirt for her Washington DC trip, because her best friend had decided to wear a skirt to the dance they would be going to. Well, we shopped and shopped and could find nothing she liked. So we ended up at the fabric store and I bought denim and made her the skirt on the left. Apparently she misunderstood me when I told her it would be gathered at the waist, because once she tried it on, she hated it. She wanted a fitted skirt. So two days before she was to leave for DC, I took apart an old pair of cutoff shorts she had, and managed to make them into the skirt on the right. Thankfully she was quite happy with it. Shame she probably won't ever wear it again, but we're keeping it around just in case. The first skirt is going to Goodwill next time I take a bag in. Hopefully some girl somewhere can get some use out of it!

A work in progress

In an attempt to use up more of my fabric, I've been cutting my small scraps into 2-1/2 inch squares. I've been sewing squares together as leaders and enders for a while now, and I decided to get some of the smaller units sewn together into bigger ones, so it feels like I'm actually making some progress. I've been making four patch blocks, and now I'm sewing them together with plain blocks, like you see in the first picture. Once these are together this is one block.

And here you can see some of the blocks I have finished up on my design wall. These won't stay laid out like this as I'll be adding lots of different fabrics as I make more blocks. But I do like the way these look when they're all laid out together. I'm hoping to make this one big enough for my bed, so I've got a long ways to go. But it's nice to see it coming together. I just love scrappy quilts! 

More baby goaties

First off, here's a picture of the two baby goaties born on Wednesday. This was taken yesterday, making them about four days old, and they're already trying to eat grain. They don't waste any time growing up, that's for sure!

And here are the two new babies with their moms. They were born Friday night. The first one is Charlie with her baby Jett. She's a tiny little thing.

And this one is Divinity with her baby Dani. Emily took this picture through the snow fencing that separates the kidding pens.

Now my favorite thing to do is go sit in the barn and play with the baby goats! So if you don't see me posting much about sewing for the next little while, you'll know where I'm at! :0)

Scrappy Triangle Quilts

Every week I enjoy seeing lots of beautiful quilts on the Quilting Gallery weekly themed quilt contest. This week the theme was scrappy triangles and I decided to enter my Scrappy HST quilt. You don't have to vote for my quilt if you don't want to, but if you do, thank you! Just click on the button to go to the page for the voting! :0)

New in the neighborhood

Some of you may know that our neighbor two doors down raises pygmy goats. Well, one of the pregnant does decided to give birth today, and I got to be there for the blessed event. She had two boys, which have been named Apache and Shamrock.


This little one is Apache. He was born first. He has the most adorable face!

And this is Shamrock, born second. Look at the colors on his coat...it looks like he's wearing dark pants! LOL

And here's mom and the two boys, finally settling down for a well deserved rest. I'm so glad I got to see them being born. And I can't wait to go and visit them tomorrow! :0)