Quilting, Quilting

Since finishing the sock monkey project, I have cleaned up my studio space.   It was nice to reorganize, throw away and get things back in order.   I also had to corral the disaster on the kid's side of the table.

I have two quilts finish soon.   My sister-in-law is on bed rest and due in four weeks.   I have a suspicion that once her doctor lifts the bed rest restriction that she could have my niece anytime.   I'm so excited about her quilt.   Half of it is cut already.   It is a ladybug themed quilt, but I am not using a single ladybug fabric.   I have another idea to incorporate the lady bugs.

The second quilt is for some dear friends from college.  We went to college with Patrick.  He is one of Jason's favorite people in this world.   We got to know Carrie when we were living in Florida.   They were at the University of Florida, Gainesville while Patrick got his Ph.D.  We were in Orlando while Jason got his MBA at Duke.  Side note, Jason traveled to North Carolina every eight weeks for a one week residency for twenty L..O..N...G... months to get his MBA from Duke.  Back to the history, we would meet Patrick and Carrie in the Clearwater/St. Petersburg area because it was equidistant from our respective cities.  One trip we shelled on Caladesi Island.  Here is a picture circa 2006 Patrick took of us on that trip.  Brooke is two and I'm expecting Brayden a few months after the picture was taken.  

We also canoed in search of Manatees on another trip.  We made trips when we would meet at various springs between Orlando and Gainesville and snorkel the boils.  We love them and I'm so excited to make a quilt for their baby due in July.

My daughter thinks I am not an artist, but a craftist.   So I'm off to be a quiltist today!