Acacia "Raccoon" Quilt

I love this collection of fabric, Tula Pink's Acacia. The colors and the patterns are bright and happy! Can you find the raccoons? Details are pictured below. I had my machine quilter sew a simple pattern so it wouldn't distract from the busy fabric. I will be snuggling into this quilt for the winter.

Patriotic Cathedral Quilt

This is my new favorite quilt to use fabric scraps. I used the red, white and blue patriotic colors on a previous quilt (currently at my machine quilters) and had leftover scraps. I read up on how to make these cathedral quilts and it looked simple enough. It is a time consuming process, but when it comes to quilts there's always one part or another that will be time consuming. This ended up as a mini-quilt, about 30" x 30", for a game prize at our family reunion. Congrats to Ingrid in her rock, paper, scissor game skills! Details are in the pictures below.

(The white background all sewn together before the color squares are appliqued.)

Simple Apple Cake

Here is a simple apple cake recipe when you want to throw something together quick.

Apple Cake

3 apples, pealed and sliced
3 eggs
1 c sugar
1 c flour
cinnamon and sugar mixture (1/4 c sugar plus 1 tsp cinnamon)

Preheat oven to 350° and grease and flour round pan. Beat eggs until fluffy, add sugar and then flour. Pour into pan. Then layer apple slices on top. Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar. Bake 35-40 minutes and check to see if it is done. Serve warm or chilled with whipped cream.

Puffy (Biscuit) Baby Quilt

I made this puffy baby quilt for a friend's baby shower. I had so much fun making this quilt. I got to use the design wall Mike got me for my birthday. It makes it easy to place and design the pattern. This quilt is very forgiving if you don't sew the lines straight.

 So, step by step, I laid the squares out.

 Next I sewed the pockets. The pockets have a backing so that the pleats can be made.

 Here the pockets are sewn in rows. The tops are open.

Next, they are stuffed with filling. Then they are sewn shut and the rows are sewn together. For this quilt, I decided to tie the backing to the quilt and machine sew the binding.

The final product is a super comfy puffy quilt. The yellow squares are minky which adds a different texture that babies love.

Our 3-Year Old

Our baby Benjamin it now fully into toddlerhood and turned 3-years old. Three weeks after having Levi, we celebrated Benjamin's birthday. I didn't do anything too fancy for his birthday and settled with brownies. He thoroughly enjoyed them since it ended up all over his face.

 We discovered that he loves puzzles...thanks Aunt Karen.

 Ben's looking forward to cooling off on the hot summer days with his sprinkler.

 Now that Ben is a big boy, he graduated to the big boy bed. Thanks to Aunt Melissa for the plush cars toy! Below is a video of Ben's reaction to his bed...sorry the first section is sideways.