Thursday: colors

I got all my pieces cut out for the next quilt. It was a little nerve-wracking though (or as nerve-wracking as cutting fabric can be) (which I guess isn't really that nerve-wracking).

The first three colors that I cut where bright orange, light blue, and bright pink. They do not match.

Then I cut out white. Things started to get a little bit better.

And then I cut out the base fabric. It's a fun paisley type pattern, but incorporates all the colors.

So this quilt might work out after all.

Wednesday: pizza

The people at work had a pizza party for me today. It was nice. :)

It also snowed here. It was a heavy wet snow, and so it stayed on the trees all day.

Tuesday: work

Ok, I'm ready to be done with work. Giving away some of the things that I've been working on for two years is hard. I like the people and I enjoy what I've been doing, so it will be easier when I don't have to see it every day.

And I definitely like not working. Well, at least for a few weeks. After that I'll probably be bored, so hopefully I'll have a purpose by then.

Monday: walls

This weekend I took down the picture wall. :( I have a few new pictures that I wanted to change out from around Christmas, but never got around to it.

Then I was left with a bunch of nails.
I Spackled and painted so that when people came into the house, the first thing they wouldn't see are all these nails sticking out of the wall. Unfortunately, the paint job didn't come out great...if you're on an angle and it is daytime you can see where I painted. But it looks better than nails and hopefully good enough.

On the wall in the gym there is a sign with rules. One of the rules is "Do not place hands or feet near moving parts." However, I would like to remind the sign that it is in a gym. All the machines have hands or feet near moving parts. Take the treadmills for example. They're rather pointless if you don't put your feet on the moving part.

Sunday: finished quilt

I finished the next quilt today! I like how it ended up turning out. I still need some practice on the edges, but I will just try again on the next one.

The top:

The back:

The foldover:

The cat test (passed):

Saturday: quilt day

Today is National Quilt day. In honor of it, it spent way too much time working on a corner of my binding.

Now, I know that there are other ways to do corners, but my problem with this quilt is that the back is smaller than the front. (Don't ask me why.) So I had to be creative to figure out how to get on the binding without messing up the front. I figured it out, but the corners are still giving me problems. One of these days I'll get it figured out.

Here's how it turned out. Not great, but definitely the best I could get.

update: the next corner went much more smoothly...it looks better and took a normal amount of time. :)

Friday: moving

So here's the big news: we're moving back to West Michigan.

Ben has taken a job with Gentex and I have a few possibilities on the horizon. I think we're going to leave here April 3rd after church and will get to Michigan on the 4th.

This was an incredibly hard decision for us. We like it here. We like our jobs, love our friends, and have put down some roots in the short time that we've been in New York. But at the same time, our family is back in West Michigan. We feel like this is where God is leading us; some doors have closed themselves here while other doors have easily opened in Michigan.