a new project and some other stuff

The other day I was trying to think of a new project that I could work on. I wanted it to be/needed it to be something that wouldn't cost me anything. I started to look through my fabric and couldn't believe how much I had! I had a TON of fabric left over from past projects. I had also collected a bunch of scraps during the summer because the little quilt shop by us sold them for 10 cents. I also had to laugh, because if anyone would have looked through my fabric, they would have been able to tell a couple of things about me. 

1. What my favorite colors are. About 90% of my fabric was a shade of green, orange, blue or brown.

2. I love polka dots. More than half of the patterns are polka dots.

Anyway, what did I decide to make with my mounds of fabric?

A quilt! 

This is my first. Well, that's not true. When I was prego with Lincoln I started to make him one. But then I ran out of time and didn't have any time after having him. And then we were given so many quilts/blankets that were better than the one I was making, that I didn't have the motivation to finish mine. I only need to do the binding on it though so I just need to finish it. 

Anyway...

I decided to just keep this one simple with traditional squares. I spent about 2 nights after L went to bed to cut out around 350 fabric squares.

And then I Derick helped me to lay them out to get the pattern we wanted. I know, it's super crazy. So many colors and patterns. But that's ok. I like things like that. And don't forget this is a no-cost quilt. I'll take anything for free. 

I had debated with the idea of different designs with the squares, or throwing in some white, etc. But since I had so much colored fabric, I just decided to stick with that.

So now I am sewing them all together. I am about 1/3 of the way done. It's going by pretty quickly. I will post more pics as I go along.

In other news...

Lincoln is getting so fun. SO FUN! He is absolutely hilarious. He is such a little goofball.

He is learning to play with his new basketball hoop. I know, that is not a basketball that he is putting in it. But he thinks it's funny when we put his soccer ball in it.

He also loves to play with his new blocks from Grandpa. He likes when Derick builds a tower, so that he can then knock it over.

I love this picture of my two boys doing dishes. So cute. 

Last night, Derick and Lincoln built a fort. Stay tuned.