quilting + birthday + Kael

When Luke was born, I decided instead of a tied quilt from my Mom, I wanted a hand quilted one. My Mom thought I was being overly ambitious, but being the sweet, loving, lady that she is, we did it. We quilted a crib size quilt for Luke, then she bound it by hand also. When grandchild #2 (Abigail) came along, my Mom decided that we had to finish what we started. She decided that she'd do a quilt for each new grandbaby. All us girls come to help for each quilt. I love that each of my kids have a special quilt sewn by Grandma, Mom, and Aunts.

Here are my kid's quilts. Luke's on top and Hailey's on the bottom. Luke's, being the first was really simple, just big squares, but on each one we get a little more brave with the patterns. On Carly's we did circles, and different material for the binding. Each quilt looks better and better.

My Mom, Shannon, and Jessy, working on our 8th quilt, for baby Kael.

Although we are no experts, our stitches are getting considerably better with each quilt.
Sometimes, it's surprising that we actually get any work done, while trying to watch the kids. I love getting together with these guys to quilt.

One of the days we got together to quilt, happened to be Shannon's birthday. So of course we celebrated.

We made Kael's quilt just in time, because this sweet guy decided to come a little bit early. Jed and Shannon had their little guy last week, and he is oh so handsome!