A Blanket for Jasmine's Teacher

Jasmine wanted to make a special gift for her teacher. She came up with the idea of doing a blanket. After emailing her teacher's husband, who just happens to be a teacher at the school as well, we found out what colors to work with. Jasmine picked out the fabrics and sewed the smaller squares together. After that, I did the rest. It was just too big for Jasmine to handle yet and her machine couldn't handle the thicker fabrics.



Embroidered with their name ~ The Howingtons



The back embroidered with a special message

Alexandra's Blankie

I just simply love this quilt kit at JoAnn's. The colors are just beautiful and it makes for a great quilt for any little girl. My wonderful neighbors, Justin and Nicki, have a sweet little girl, Alexandra. I whipped this one up for her.

Hope's lovey

With my awesome machine, I'm able to do embroidery. I whipped this up in a few minutes just so I could test out the embroidery part of my machine. My sister, Joanna said Hope (my niece) loves it. Yeah!

Curtains for the boys' room!

I finally did the curtains for the boys' room. Only took me an hour so I don't know why I didn't get them done sooner.

My new toy!!!

Since Daddy got a new toy (which you can read about on our family blog), it was definitely Mommy's turn. Jamie knew I wanted a new sewing machine and took it upon himself with Becky's help to get me one. He got one much better than what I had been looking at. I haven't be able to use it much because I have a pinched nerve in my back and using the computer and other creative things like sewing, put a hurting on my back. It's a super nice machine though and I can't wait to really get into making some fun things.

This is my new baby....

Curtains for the girls' room

Jasmine picked out some really pretty paint colors for the walls and I found some really great fabric to match. Hopefully I will paint it soon but at least they have curtains! Even better was that I got these in the clearance section at JoAnns! I love when that happens.