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I completed a lap-sized quilt top based on the Tile Tango pattern from Atkinson Designs. Mine is in darker shades of red, gold, and an off-white marble. This top took about 12 hours to assemble.

I finished (i.e., quilted and bound!) the quilt for J&C’s second child, Baby C, who was born last week. Final photos after the quilt is received.

My husband and I visited Mom and Dad back in April. At that time, I shared with them plans for their quilt, pictured below:

Pattern for Mom and Dad’s Quilt

This one is taking quite a while to finish, in part because of how many pieces there are! It’s boggling to me just how many pieces there are to assemble.

I had a stack of 10″ squares from the Old Sturbridge Village collection from Judie Rothermel that I turned into a large lap quilt using the Take 5 Goes to Charm School pattern from The Teacher’s Pet. The blocks–and, really, the whole quilt top–went together very quickly and easily. I think this top took 15 hours.

Photos of all my recent tops are coming as soon as I find a place to take pictures of them!

The second set of eBay items didn’t go as well as I’d hoped, and even the ones that did were compromised by the house flood a few weeks back. UGH. Refunds issued to all auction winners, etc.

I’ve updated this site to include a feed for the items I’m selling on etsy.com. You can see the feed under ByNatalie @ etsy.com at right. I’ll have more items for sale there soon, as well. My handmade stuff was not in the basement, and if we’d had a flood on the first floor, we would have a lot more to worry about.

Hopefully, updates here are not going to become a quarterly occurrence. :)

Since I last updated the site, I have become full-time employed as a math teacher here in town, which is excellent. School starts in just over a month! I can’t believe how time has flown.. either summer vacation is shorter now than when I was a kid, or my perception of time has changed. Whatever the case, I have not very much time to finish preparing for my first full year in the classroom!

We’re putting effort into the house, too. Our spare time is spent cleaning, moving things around, and redecorating. So far, the only room that’s close to finished is the bathroom (all it needs is a dark green bath mat), but we have plans for all the other rooms, too. Plans that involve blue tape, rollers, and gallons of paint…!

Let’s see. Summer has been nice so far. I’ve been able to do some traveling, both alone and with my husband. Things started with a trip home for my grandfather’s funeral. All things considered, it was a fun trip, and I really enjoyed seeing my family again after two-plus years without. I also spent time with my “niece”, little miss V, and her parents. (You can read more about them at nonnac.com.) And we’ve spent the last two weekends (in part and in whole, respectively) in New Brunswick.

I’m getting back into quilting, after a several-month hiatus. I need to post pictures here, and will do so soon.

I’m also beading. I have a budding beading store at Etsy.com, which is also sorely in need of update. Mostly, I work with glass, stones, pewter, and silver, and all the designs I’m selling have come out of my imagination. Hooray for original work! There’s too little of that these days.

That’s it for this update, it looks like. More soon!