bella's backpack

My younger niece, Bella, has decided to be just like her sister.  That includes wanting to go to school, and wear a backpack.  So I decided to make her a backpack of her own.

I used the tutorial from Made by Rae blog for a toddler backpack.

I loved the pattern, it was super easy. And Bella loved her backpack! Yay!

i need a bigger floor.

Basting the Steelers quilt. I had to move all my furniture to do so!

Plugging away...

holiday sewing mojo

I don't know if its the holidays, or if I am actually getting back my sewing mojo, but I have been on a roll lately. Yesterday, I finished an Innotab case for my niece using a tutorial from the pink stitches blog. Loved the tutorial, but I didn't realize until I had finished the project that the Innotab is about an inch bigger all around than the LeapPad. Oh, well - I improvised, and it works! Not perfect, but at least I know this if I ever have to make another one!

H loves Hello Kitty, so I had to use some of the left over Hello Kitty fabric I had from the quilt I made her.

I also finished stockings for my nieces and mom and dad. I used this tutorial, from the vanilla joy blog, only I left out the interfacing/batting and used fleece for the lining and cuff.

Sorry for the poor quality - I was too lazy to get out the real camera!

And, I have made some major headway on the Steelers quilt. Pictures to come. Luckily for me and the quilt, we are postponing Christmas celebration with my brother-in-law until we can see them in January...which means more time to finish!

baby on board!

Pretty much zero quilting or sewing going on around the hinkenhook household lately. We do, however, have some pretty big news.

Yep. A baby!

That has put an even bigger pause in the crafting lately since I've been feeling like royal crap. So, in an effort to gain back some craftiness, the hubs and I made these little baby name decision chalkboards.

We're pretty split on picking baby names, so we decided to put up these boards, and as we get company, we will have them vote on their favorites. I'm not sure how seriously we'll take the end results, but it'll be fun anyway :)

Here's to new adventures! This is certainly going to be a big one!!

geno for heisman...

Well, I may not be quilting. But I sure am getting my fill of football. The QB at my Alma Mater is a strong Heisman candidate, and if he wins, it would be the first time in SCHOOL HISTORY.

Image from CBS Sports

That would be epic.

Crossing fingers and toes...

anyone seen my mojo?

There's been a lot of nothing going on around here.  Somewhere between the super heat wave here in the northeast, the wicked storms followed by days without power I've totally lost my quilt mojo. At least the one thing I've actually managed to scrape together is a big project - the Country Cracked Quilt.

Several of my points didn't come together correctly due to my impatient (and rather unprecise) cutting and piecing. But, overall, I love it. The pattern is just so cool! I am excited to get to quilting this...but I may have to scavenge some more mojo before I start that project!

wip - tumbling tumblers

Plugging away at the baby tumbler quilt with Storyboek by Birch Fabrics. Loving how this is coming together.

I think it's missing something though. I am going to have to consider adding another color, I think? Or maybe taking out some of the darker colors, gray and green - are they too dark? Any input?