Casa De Morrill

Lots to write about today. After a year and a half of Sean and me talking about buying a new car, we finally picked our newest baby up today!

(Click on the picture for more pictures in the set)

His name is Edward. Yes, we’ve already named him. We were sitting at the dealership and Sean made the comment that my car was sparklier than his car, which instantly made me think of a comment that Jeff Cotten had made a while back about certain people and how they Sparkle! (If you don’t get the reference, go here.) Anyway, it was the perfect name for my car, even though it makes me snicker every time I think of it.

The first road trip is already planned for Edward. We’re finally competing in an SCCA Nationals event in Farmington, New Mexico on May 15 – 17, so we’re taking the Fit on a road trip up there (the Miata’s not coming because we’re actually co-driving another car). I can’t wait to get it out on the open road and stretch the car’s legs a bit.

I’ve been dying to post about this, but I didn’t want to put pictures up until the quilt had actually been given to its recipient. Sean’s sister Amy just had her first baby 6 weeks ago and as our baby gift to them, I wanted to make up a quilt. I’m really pleased with how it all came out.

I wound up trying my hand at piecing a backing for the quilt also. I used the same fabrics as the front, but just did strips that were split out with leftover squares from the front.

I hand quilted a simple wave pattern across the whole quilt and the inside border got it’s own wave pattern going all the way around the quilt. There are a couple more pics of the fabrics as I started the quilt if you click through the photo set.

All in all, I think it was quite successful and Amy really liked it, which is the part that counts.