I didn't die, I swear.

Hi. It's been a while, or as they say in the south, a minute. Well it seems like a minute. Last time I was on here seemed like yesterday, but at the same time ages ago. A quick recap: I got my shit together, paused the craftiness, became a drunker drunk, managed to stitch together enough non-fabric data crap to convince a bunch of old drunks to let me (the young drunk) get my PhD. About 4 hours after my public defense, I was on the highway in Dory (my blue Chevy cavalier) headed due west away from the Ham, towards home sweet home California. Yes, I note the irony.

I booked it across the good ole US of A, and arrived Sunday night, just in time for the new job Monday morning at 8AM. Managed to take a peek at the new digs MO secured for us, and begun the daily grind.

All my crafty goodness was still in boxes buried in the closet, but fortunately I had a wonderful deadline that I had to touch fabric for. My good buddy Cassie is about to have a baby [like seriously any minute :-)] and you know what babies call for: QUILTS! As I was in CA and could not attend this wonderful baby shower in person, I asked my amazing crafterbuddy Marla to wash (for the crinkle effect), photograph, and hand deliver this special gift. She really is amazing. She was assisted by our mutual buddy Sarah, who is also amazing.

SPOILER: Cassie, Sarah, Marla and I are all very good crafty friends! So it is rather incestuous :-)

Without further ado I give you Quilt for Mad Shu Cods:

not overly pink - we wouldn't want that. SERIOUSLY. we wouldn't want that.

appropriate crinklage.

put some trees on that back.

the #coddigntonchild parents love nature, and orange.

would you put it on a rock?

would you put it by a stream?

Leuko and Cypress clearly deem it babyworthy, so much so, it has become inconsequential compared to what may be edible in the stream.

When it is all said and done, for a sweet baby, and a wonderful friend :-)

Quilt Stats:
Size: maybe 36inX36in?
Fabric: Twenty Three by Moda charm pack with some additional fabs, a solid green, some Ikat, and a few tidbits from Art Gallery Fabric freebies from last year's Stash Bash. The back has some Bella by Lotta Jansdotter and some orange.
Quilted: by me, about a quarter inch on each side of every seam, straight line quilting
Binding: machine stitched by me - time was of the essence!

So - I should be back on here more often! Hope to see you kids around. And maybe read some of my blogs I neglected during that whole get my shit together thing.

Ciao bellas! Thanks for keeping in touch
k