Remember me?

I'm really, really sorry for my absence.  Why was I so quiet?  Simply put, I had nothing to blog about.  In the last week, I have neither started a new project nor finished a project in progress.  I can chalk it up to laziness and a bit of post graduation blues.  Anyway, I crept out of hibernation to post something awesome. 

I'm proud to announce that after months of participating in blog giveaways, I finally won something!  Emily from Carolina Patchworks was part of a blog tour to promote Cherri House's City Quilts.  Along with a copy of Cherri's book, Emily was kind enough to offer up four of her own patterns as prizes.  I won Emily's Mod Pod pattern and I'm beyond thrilled.  Now I have another quilt to add to my to do list.

Patient reader, I know I haven't been the most consistent blogger, but I'm willing to make you a promise that I'm 99% sure that I can keep.  I promise on my boyfriend's socks and sandals clad feet that I will have a quilt related post up by Friday!

Now I ask you, would I tell a lie on these tootsies?

Story Time

While rummaging through my grandmother's closet (don't ask me what I was doing in there), I found a book I wrote and illustrated in the sixth grade.  Our assignment was to rewrite a story with our own personal spin.  I decided to modernize The Rough-Face Girl by Rafe Martin.  This is the project I sacrificed an entire Spring Break to finish.  I made it with construction paper, glue and some body and clothes templates that helped keep the characters looking uniform from page to page.

I didn't bother to take any pictures of the pages with just text.  The link above has a synopsis of the original story if you want to know what's going on.  It's basically a Cinderella story.  The mistreated heroine gets the guy in the end and lives happily ever after.  

The cover.  Very plain and uninspired.

This is the dedication page.  Pinky was a big pink teddy bear that I used to dress up in baby onesies.

The title page sans title

I want to point out that I used the same hair template for everyone in the book.  I also used the template for some non-hair things too.  See if you can spot them.

The flames are actually pony tails.  I betcha didn't even notice.

See that boa wrapped around the figure on the left?  Yeah, it's made out of a pair of pony tails.

1.  Get money  2.  Buy fabric  3.  ???  4.  Success!

I thought I was being all sneaky when I put my initials on their shirts.

This is the Rough-Faced Girl after she bathes in the enchanted beautifying river.

Yah!  Happy ending!

Thanks for looking.  I hope to have a quilting related post up by Wednesday.

Picture Dump Friday

Today was really slow.  Here's some pics I took.

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Hawaiian Quilting

Today I wanted to share some of my grandmother's work.  She has been quilting on and off for the last ten years.  I really admire her because she does everything by hand.  She exclusively does Hawaiian quilting and wouldn't even think about doing a patchwork quilt.  They just don't appeal to her.  You should know that my grandmother is a chronic procrastinator and most of her quilts are in various states of completeness. 

Pineapple

Breadfruit

Atherium

No idea

Another breadfruit

Taro

My favorite one, and thus far the only complete one in the whole collection, is the pineapple quilt.  It's just so yellow and cheery.