Vacation

Lukas David N. was born on May 31, he was 10lbs. It was a very stressful time for my family. There was many complications leading up to and after the little guy arrived. After 9 days of being in and out of the hospital he is finally home and mom and him are resting up. He is so adorably chunky and my lil buddy. 

I still did the shop hop over my first weekend of vacation. We hit up 5 quilt shops (Cailco Girls, Endless Mountain Quilts, Quilter's Corner, O'susannahs, Patchwork Plus). It was a lovely time and I got some great items for my collection. At each shop you got a fat quarter and applique and enter in a daily drawing along with treats and demonstrations on techniques or new products that are out. I loved the theme of the shop hop April in Paris; so all the applique's had something to do with Paris (a total of 7 applique's). I bought a ruler with a 45 degree angle (for this new way of doing a mitered binding), a Dresden ruler, and a lil twister ruler (to do a twisted piece patchwork). I also have an interest in learning paper piecing and picked up a couple of paper piecing patterns for coasters along with a bunch of fat quarters and a book on how to be a confident quilter. The Old Bear and I had fun spending some quality time with each other even though it was during a quilt store shop hop.

I only have a few day's left of my vacation so I have been spending time with my lil buddy and working in my craft room. I will have some pics posted in my kraft corner that I have been working on!