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My non craft projects

Its summer and I don't have a lot of time for crafty projects. I have to live off the land to make my family food for the upcoming hard winter. And drink beer and go to the pool.

I made a bunch of jam. And drank a beer. It was good, but got warm quickly because the kitchen was hot. Note to self--use a cozy.

I made stuffed eggplant tonight which only 3/4 of us ate without crying.

Some of my jam. Try to look surprised at Christmas. I made 10 more pints today. Putting the canner away for a while now.

Nesting much?

Here's a sampling of what I've done this week.

Here's the finished front of quilt.

And the finished back. I've already got it quilted too.

Our friends had a baby names Josiah. Here's a t-shirt I'm making him.

And the detail.

Here's one for baby Alaina. I also need to make one for baby Amalia. But I accidentally scorched hers with the iron.

I needed more mattress pads for Henry and June's room. I got mad that they charge $14 for two small ones in the kids section, so I just bought a big queen sized one for $15 and cut it up into 3 big pieces. And I used some left over to make these little burp clothes for the baby.

I still need to clip all the string, but I think they are pretty cute.

Here's the fabric for baby Dash's quilt. It's going to be a bunch of blocks with every other block this checkerboard pattern. Hopefully I can get it done before Dash is born.

Remember I crocheted a rug out of t-shirts in the kitchen? It was getting stretched out and Henry unraveled a part and stuck his leg through it. So during a crazy spell, I tore the whole thing apart and am now using the strips to weave a new rug. You can see that it's a much tighter weave.

Here's how far I've gotten. Now that we have cable, Brandon doesn't always let me sit in front of the tv with my loud sewing machine. So this is a nice, quiet project to work on.

Aunt Jenni, show this to Kevin. This is $45 worth of stuff that I got for $15. And $8 of it (medicine and coke) wasn't part of my awesome deals. I just bought it because I had extra CVS bucks to use. Normally, I save them for my good deals next week, but I'm not sure if I'll be up to going to CVS next week. So really it's $37 worth of stuff for $7. Score.

Baby Gus' quilt front.

Here's the front of the quilt before I sewed it all together.  

I'm working on the back tonight.