I did this a little bass ackwards, but oh well!

Welcome to my new little creation! 

I have always thought it would be "fun" to start a blog so here I am. I know this is a little backwards since I already have wrote about the cute little rag quilt I made, but oh well, I have never followed directions in my life yet; why start now? 

After publishing my first post I was surprised to have had 41 people read it! That might not be impressive to some, hell many, but for me I felt like I was famous! :0 Doesn't take much to excite me! 

A little about myself. I live in a smallish town in western Iowa. I have three children (7, 2, and 5 months) and just recently became a full time stay at home mom. Most days I love it, some days I want to pull my hair out. Especially on laundry day, I HATE housework. Or on days it rains, kids won't melt....right??  In the end it is all worth it, I think.......

I am a self proclaimed AMAzing baker and an OK cook. I haven't poisoned anyone yet! ;)

In my spare time I coupon, scour the web for all things FREE, read, crochet, and spend time with my kids, and my new found love (again) sewing.

It's hard to say what this blog will be about. Who knows really. I don't want to really write about one thing in particular. So who knows whatever tickles my fancy that day, or week, or month. Hopefully I will remember to do this every once in awhile.........

Leave a comment! I would love to hear from all of you reading this. What would you like to see? Recipies, sewing, kid stuff? Let me know! 

My new Obsession

So I have been wanting a sewing machine for years, and I mean YEARS. I finally got one about a month ago. I was all excited when I got it went to Hobby Lobby and was looking at the fabric with the fam. And you know what they ask me to make........pillows........really, how boring. But I did it. I mean I had to break it in somehow.....right? So 800 pillows in every fabric design later I started something really cool last night. A rag quilt. I for some reason find these things amazing. They are actually quite warm also. I decided to start with the babies quilt because it would be the smallest. 

This is the fabric I chose for the babies rag quilt. 

I Cut all the fabric into 7in squares. Man did THAT take FOREVER! I then laid it all out in the pattern I wanted so the backs would be with the fronts and the batting would be in the middle and then pinned them all. 

All laid out

Once all pinned I sewed an X in the middle of each square not sewing all the way to the edge leaving about an inch at each point. 

X marks the spot

I really didn't get all hot and bothered if the fabric didn't stay perfectly even. Once all of the squares had the X, I then cut them again down to 6.5in taking 1/4 in off of each side. This took me awhile to get this down. for some reason my brain could not comprehend the math from 7in to 6.5 to make a square. I had to make about 4 squares over. :/ NOW my friend they are all perfectly even and square! I then pinned the squares in their rows and continued sewing. and sewing and sewing........and finally I saw the light! I was done.....or so I thought. Once you get done sewing you have to snip the edges to get the "rag" effect. Man that was boring and tedious. But trust me in the end it is all worth it. 

Finished!

To really get the "rag" effect it is best to wash and dry the quilt. With my leftover oopsie squares I got even craftier. 

Tada! 

I call it the raggy taggy cuz I'm cool like that. I also whipped out one of these crazy numbers. 

The Very Taggy Caterpiller

And after stabbing myself repeatedly because I had to repin this one a bazillion times because I kept pinning the legs on the wrong side of the fabric I called it a night.