A Grandson's Birthday Quilt

Grayson is one of our "city slicker" grandsons.  That means he isn't into farm equipment, but he IS into garbage trucks and construction equipment.  That's what he sees in his world.  His parents painted a neighborhood along the bottom edge of one of his bedroom walls so he could drive along and pick up garbage.  Another wall has the garbage dump and the big equipment.  Sooooo, he needed a new blanket.  Nana to the rescue......

The center is a "cheater" panel.  For you non quilty people that means it is all one fabric.  No piecing to it.

I used three different quilting patterns....meandering, loops, and a stencil on the white.

I've been wanting to use a stencil for a while, and I thought this was the perfect pattern for the white.

The back is pieced out of the leftovers from the front.  The symmetrical me would have liked the top pieces to meet up, but the frugal me just couldn't waste that much fabric!  Now, if it were for a fancier quilt the symmetrical me may have won.  :)

As always, I hope Grayson loves it and uses it for many years!  Do you think it will look good in a dorm room? :)

Another Christmas Quilt

I'll get caught up one of these days, I'm sure!

For Trina and Tanner's quilt I used a pattern I had used before.
It is the same one as I used for my niece's birthday quilt a few years ago.



This is Trina and Tanner's quilt that I made them for Christmas.


This is the first time I've used the same pattern twice. I love the fabric on the back of the quilt too!



I straight line quilted this one.



I used a Moda layer cake, but I can't remember what fabric line it was! I hope they use the quilt for many years.


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Cinnamon Roll Cake

My name is Kim, and I am a Pinterestaholic!! I have soooooooo many pins there is no way I could ever make/do them all! But from time to time I do actually try one. This time I tried ..........

Cinnamon Roll Cake






Ingredients
3 cups flour (Or cup4cup if making this gluten free)
1/4 tsp. salt
1 cup sugar
4 tsp. baking powder
1 1/2 cups milk
2 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
1/2 cup butter, melted

TOPPING
1 cup butter, soft
1 cup brown sugar
2 Tbsp. flour (or cup4cup if gluten free)
1 Tbsp. cinnamon

GLAZE
2 cups powdered sugar
5 Tbsp. milk
1 tsp. vanilla

Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9×13 glass baking pan with cooking spray or coconut oil spray. Set aside.
In a mixer, add the flour, salt, sugar, baking powder, milk, eggs, and vanilla. Once combined well, slowly stir in the melted butter. Pour into pan.
For the topping, mix the butter, brown sugar, flour and cinnamon together until well combined and creamy. Drop evenly over the batter by the tablespoonfuls and use a knife to marble/swirl through the cake.
Bake at 350 for 35-40 minutes or when a toothpick inserted near the center comes out nearly clean.
Glaze: Whisk the powdered sugar, milk and vanilla. Drizzle evenly over the warm cake.




Nate gave it a thumbs up! We Will be making it again!

(Recipe from Hugs & Cookies Blog)

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Bowl for Kids' Sake

Our daughter, Trina, is a Development Associate for big Brothers Big Sisters in CR. We are not close enough to benefit in our area, but it is a wonderful organization that helps many kids, so we are happy to try to support them. This year we decided to try to raise money for Bowl for Kids' Sake which is a HUGE chunk of their budget for the year.

Members of our bowling team:
Birthday boy!



Thank goodness for bumpers!


Clara was insistent that, "I can do it myself!"


Another birthday boy! Nate had pretty good form, and only used the rack a few times.


Maddux was a cheerleader, but he rolled it down the lane a few times too.


A General Mills guy was thee handing out cereal and dancing, and photo bombed Nate,

Grandpa and Tanner also bowled. Trina worked as she is in charge of it. I opted out since I had taken a spill on the ice and my knees weren't quite up to it.

We enjoyed a good meal at Red Robin and celebrated our three February birthdays with free sundaes!!





THANK YOU to everyone who donated!

Side Note: Our goal was to raise at least $140. I was amazed at how hard it was to raise money for such a good cause. I sent out an email to both buildings that we work in and got $0. I sent out another email to specific coworkers that we have close connections with and got $0. I emailed friends, family, and book club members, and posted on Facebook, and that's where I finally got some money donated, but still disappointing. If everyone we approached had donated $1 we would have exceeded our goal. I'm not sure what that says, but we'll do it again next year.
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Christmas Quilt Number Three

Clara has a new bedroom in her new house, and shy wanted something PINK for Christmas. So, I tried to oblige!






I LOVE the chevron pattern. Of course I had to add some other colors with the pink.





My inspiration fabric was the light pink background with the flower. It is every other zigzag and the middle border. The back is the same pink as the border fabric. I straight line quilted the zigzags and the flower border, and I meandered the first and third borders. I don't have photos. :(




It matches her "Pepto Bismal" room well! (Her dad's words, not mine.)





I think she likes it!





I hope she loves it for many years to come! In fact, I think it would look great in a dorm room! Just sayin'.

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Christmas Quilt Number Two

Well, I was going to remember the name of the fabric I used for Travis & Kerry's quilt, but I forgot, and I can't find the paper........so, onto the photos.



I did large stippling over the inside of the quilt.


And straight lines on the border.


Colby had to get in on the action!



And it is home in their bedroom. Chance is just a cute prop!



The label says who it is to, from me, and the year. I embroider it on my machine and hand sew it on when I do the binding. Hopefully someday their grandchildren will remember me!

I hope they enjoy it for many years to come!
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Quilts for Christmas

This year I decided to make a lap quilt for each of my kids and their spouses a lap quilt. With all of the quilts I've made I've only made them their t-shirt quilts. Unfortunately I didn't get pictures taken before Christmas.....because I was sewing right up until Christmas Eve! Anyway, it has been like pulling teeth to try to get them to send pictures. :(

Here is Tasha's quilt:



The fabric is Make Life by Sweetwater for Moda. It is the same fabric that I used for Clara's baby quilt.



As I was playing with it on my design board this summer Tasha kept saying she liked it, so I decided it was hers!



I tried a different bit of quilting on this one as I quilted a flower in the center of each block of four. Then I just did loops around the rest.


It is kind of hard to see in the pictures. I washed the quilt before I gave it to her just to be sure no colors ran. I always use a color catcher.


Sometimes it is hard to get a picture without a kid.


I hope they use and enjoy it for many years!

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