Little Photographers

Last Sunday my nieces and nephews wanted to play photographer with my digital camera. I think it gives them a sense of power. Alyssa actually took a few good shots. The hard part was distracting her with something else long enough to get my camera back and hide it.

Life After College

With a little break between winter semester and my last class at BYU I'm starting to get a little taste for life after college. I get up, go to work, come home and I no longer feel guilty for engaging in creative projects or socializing with friends and family rather than doing homework. It's great! However, I do forsee myself getting bored if I don't actively continue to engage my mind in new pursuits. This month I've been returning to one of my favorite hobbies, quilt making.

Over the last 8 years I've been collecting 1930's reproduction prints because I love them so much. I've been looking for the perfect pattern to set off the prints and I think I might have found it at last. It looks hard though and I'm not exactly sure how to piece it together. I think it is a very old pattern as I've only found it catalogued in one quilting book and they got the pattern from a newspaper article citing old family quilt patterns.

A couple of days ago, I was going through my bucket of fabrics and found some nine patch squares for a quilt I'd never finished. So last night rather than going out on a date I pieced the top of a quilt together after work. It was very satisfying to see the end result. I think I will call it "Winter Sunrise."