Another Quilt

I made another quilt.  The fabric is called Park Avenue, and involved a lot of free-motion quilting.

Patio furniture

We had a patio built in our backyard, with a pergola, and I have wanted furniture for that space ever since, but outside furniture is expensive! Especially if you are only using it a few months out of the year. Well, this year we decided to make some.  I found some plans and got Larry to start working on them. He built a sofa and two chairs. We bought cushions, and I made pillows to add. We went to the D.I. and looked for a table that would work out there, and we found one with a really ugly coat of green crackle paint.  It was cheap, so we brought it home, sanded off the ugly green, and I painted a beautiful sunset on it. So the pillows I made match the colors in the painting.

Then I planted a fairy garden in a pot and made a table for it to sit on out of the left-over lumber, I  repaired and hung the long wind chime that has been in the shop for a while, planted more flowers and found a small side table with a candle lantern to go out there as well. It is now a fun place to relax on the cool weekend mornings or in the evening shade.

Place mats

Seiko was having a bridal shower, and I thought about giving her some rice bowls, to honor her Japanese heritage, (even though she is marrying a Navajo boy!) so I made some placements to go with the rice bowls. I looked up the Kanji symbol for "Happiness" and appliqued that onto the placements. I like the way they turned out, and Seiko was happy with them, too.

Star Wars cookies

More cookies! This time for Star Wars Day (May the Fourth - be with you...)

So, the young women had a fundraiser, and they asked for donations for their dessert auction.  

I made cookies.

Easter Cookies

Another thing I did in the last year is play around with cookie decorating. It started at Valentine's Day when I wanted to take something to our home teaching ladies.

And then I played with other different cut outs, and ended up teaching it at Relief Society.

When Ally turned eight, I brought some cookies to her baptism celebration dinner.

I made some more for Halloween. We took them to Larry's grandkids instead of candy. 

I also made a lot for Christmas, but we gave them all away!