A finished GerriAnn and fun in the mail...

 You know it's time to clean out your closet when you can't fit the clothes you actually wear in there. I got that job done this morning, then got busy and put the binding on GerriAnn. She is officially finished!

 Here is a pic of the binding. It is a goldish batik with green leaves so I thought it looked good with both the front and the kids print I put on the back.

 This is much prettier in real life, not the greatest pic.

I received my thread winnings from Mary at Molly Flanders in the mail yesterday....it's so much fun to get things in the mail! She also sent me this cutest little pincushion! I love it, thanks Mary!

Grouchy Ladybug

 Last year I made some wall art and pillows using fabric featuring the author Eric Carle's books. Recently I found a new release in that series featuring the Grouchy Ladybug. I thought it was so cute and knew I could make something out of it to match what I had already made.

 This fabric is the same border, over and over, with these cute sayings. The background is white, not a very good picture!

 I also got a panel of the ladybugs, just because I knew if I didn't I would regret it.

 I cut the borders apart, sewed them back together putting the Grouchy Ladybug picture in the middle of one of them, and hemmed them. I am going to use one on a bookcase, and the other on a table, I think. Unless I think of something else when I get to school tomorrow.

I still have another panel that I bought at the quilt show last year. I have a window between the library and a classroom that I want to cover, so think that it will do the trick! I measured the window one day, but forgot to bring the measurements home so I think I will take it to school tomorrow so that I can see what I need to do make it work for that space.


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I finished quilting GerriAnn, now to get the binding on.

Unpack library ✓

Yep, I'm jumping for joy, because I unpacked the last box yesterday. You might remember what it looked like when I started. I also marked everything that needs to go away (most of it furniture left by the last school) so that when I come back on Monday it should look pretty nice.

This is the back half before I put the books on the shelves on the back wall. Yesterday I had all the "to go" stuff stacked in front of them, so couldn't take a good pic.

 I got the books on those back shelves on Thursday. They are part of a special library that the teachers use.

 Ahhhh......now this is looking good!

 I spent some time prettying the place up.

 Still need to hang my Eric Carle wall art, they are sitting on top of the bookcase right now, hang some posters and do some more straightening up. There are more pix on the Roosevelt Library Facebook page if you are not sick of this already!

Going to head up to load and start quilting the GerriAnn quilt. I'm excited to get it finished.
Happy Saturday!

GerriAnn.... and I won!

I finished sewing the borders on the GerriAnn quilt so she is ready to quilt. I love her, she turned out so cute in all browns.
 Now I want to make Ellie the Elephant...but it will have to wait awhile.

I found out that I won an Aurifil thread sample pack from Mary at Molly Flanders blog! I am so excited to see what colors I won and have a chance to try the Aurifil threads. I will take a pic when they come.

Saga of the unpacking....yesterday wasn't such a great day at school, as I fought with the shelves and bookcases all morning. The cases are just a little different in size, so I had to match up the shelves with the cases. Doesn't sound like it would be hard, but it was. 3 of the bookcases were so close in size, maybe within an inch of each other, so I had to play around with each shelf, to figure out which case it belonged in. Luckily I had a better day today... I unpacked about 100 boxes and have most of the student books on shelves now. I have been taking pix, but keep forgetting to download them at school. So you'll just have to take my word for it!

A new project....GerriAnn

 I am making a baby quilt for a customer using one of the  BJ Designs adorable animal quilt patterns, GerriAnn, the giraffe. The pic above is the background, upside down.

Since the pattern is for a wallhanging, it is too narrow for a baby quilt, so I made it wider.

 I debated what to use for the "ground", but since it is for a baby gift, I decided these were too bland and too purple.

 You need to have 4 different fabrics for the giraffe, a light, light medium, a medium dark and a dark. Plus one for the hooves. I didn't want there to be lots of difference between the colors, but wanted some fabrics with movement.

 It seemed like it took a long time to trace, cut out and press the 33 body parts on to the fabric.

 I was worried I would mix up the pieces after I took the paper off, so I peeled back the paper where pieces joined and just iron-tacked them together. That helped a lot. I had added a little extra to the parts that would go underneath and marked them with 2 dashes, so it was easy to match them up.

 I also added a partial tree and extra grass to the quilt. Since I made the top 10" wider, it filled it in a bit.

I have the first border partially sewn on, hopefully I will get it finished tonight!

On the school front, I am still plugging away at putting the books on the shelves. No pix today as I didn't download them on the computer yet and the camera is at school.