Quiltypost #6- Almost there!!

I am SO CLOSE to being finished my blankie! Which is awesome, because I am moving across the country in just ONE WEEK, so the sooner I finish my blankie, the sooner I can start packing for the move. Priorities, I has them.

Here are a couple of teaser photos. Since the last time I posted pictures, I have sewn all of the squares together and then sewn those squares onto a pink quilt backing that has batting in it (to make the blankie nice and warm). The remaining steps now are to sew the ribbons of material that I cut from my old toga onto the edges of the blankie as trim, as well as up and down the lines of the squares to hide where I obviously measured wrong and have miss-matching corners.


Casper informed me that he would in no way make it easy for me to do work on the basement floor. He sat, rolled around, and chewed on my blankie every time I laid it down to pin it.



Pagan did too, until i distracted her with a much more fun BOX to play in!



Excess backing material has been cut away to reveal the beautiful shape of the blankie!



Next step: Create ribbons of trim from my pink toga. For around the edge of the blanket, I cut 3" strips and for the inside grid, I cut 2" strips.

Tomorrow, I'll be ironing the edges of the strips under so that they make ribbons with even sides. If time permits, I'll start sewing the inner grid strips. Hopefully I'll have this done by Wednesday!

I haven't had much time to work on my Ultimate To-Do List yet, unless you count my to-do list for moving. I suppose that would be a good start and you better believe I'll be blogging about that. There actually isn't a whole lot for me to do before I leave, at least nothing that can't be done after I get there. Everything is happening so fast. I finish my Public Relations course on Thursday, my last shift at work is on Friday, and then I have Saturday and Sunday to finalize preparations and then I'm gone on Monday morning. Sayonara, Ontario! Kind of scary, but exhilarating at the same time. Maybe it's how those people who all of a sudden sell all their things and go live in the mountains feel. I'm not selling anything and I'm definitely not living in the mountains but the idea of dropping pretty much everything and moving across the country is a bit too big for me to handle right now. I will probably have a massive freakout the day that I leave.

I really shouldn't be blogging right now. I should be studying for my test tomorrow morning or, better yet, SLEEPING. Oh yea, I am getting a horrible cold and I just know that despite my best efforts, it's going to get way worse before it gets better. Okay, I'm not in a great mood right now (9 hours at work in a mall on a P.A. Day will do that to you), but I'll be much much happier once my blankie is FINISHED!!

Goodnight!!

♥♥♥
Monica

Quiltypost #5- Birthdays are good days to get stuff done.

I'm almost done my blankie! I have sewn all the squares to the backing, so now it's just finishing touches like the trim! I'm super excited to finally be done. I hope I can find room in my suitcase to bring it to Fort Mac!

I took pictures of the progress I've made today but I won't post it until it's all completely done. I'm also way too tired.

It's my 24th birthday and I'm going to bed before 10 pm. Don't judge me.

♥♥♥
Monica

Someday...

I think the first thing on my Ultimate To-Do list is to visit Paris. I haven't even been off the North American continent before! (Unless you count the time I was pretty far from the coast of PEI for deep-sea fishing)

As I was reading my favourite blogs on Google Reader before class, I found this wonderful photographer's work posted on Design Sponge:

Marc Olivier took about ten years to compile photographs that depict letters of the alphabet throughout the city of Paris. If I wasn't completely in love with Paris before, I am now. Check out his work, he also sells his prints. I can't wait until I have disposable income so I can snatch up a bunch of his work. I would post a couple of teaser pictures on here except he very understandably has his work copyrighted.

So someday, folks. Someday I'll make my way to Paris, and I will visit every location where these photos were taken (if I can find them!). Dream big.

Have a great day!

♥♥♥
Monica

Excitement abound! New life project!

So I watched Julie and Julia with my mom yesterday, and at first I was depressed because the movie made me want to blog but I realized that I don't really have much to blog ABOUT. I mean yea, I'm blogging about my quilt and stuff that makes me laugh but what about AFTER I'm done my quilt?

I've also been debating whether or not to make the move to Wordpress so I could have maybe a more sophisticated coded layout. I was talking about this with the wonderful boyfriend and we actually came up with an awesome idea for a new blog! I am going to create a massive list of things to do, see and try and I am going to blog about each thing I accomplish on the list! I googled blogs with this theme and surprisingly, there isn't really much out there with this specific purpose! There are blogs that post lists, but that's really about it.

I created my blog today over on Wordpress, but it is still under construction:

The List Goes On

How cool is THAT for a name?

Now don't worry, folks. I'm not abandoning this blog just yet. I will still be blogging here while I finish my blankie and find funny stuff on the internet, but The List Goes On will be the blog just for this specific project. It will also take a long time for the blog to actually get up and running because I don't even have my ultimate to-do list compiled yet! I have a list of lists to incorporate:

-recipes to try
- movies to watch
- books to read
- musicians to listen to
- museums to visit
- destinations to visit
- games to play
- alcoholic beverages to try
- miscellaneous things like random life goals and whatnot.

If any of you have ideas of what to include on this Ultimate To-Do list, please comment and let me know!

It's now 1:30 AM and I can't feel my face. Time for bed!

♥♥♥ Monica

p.s. Hope everyone had a very nice Easter weekend!