A Few More Makes

 I have been sewing like crazy but most has been for gifts. 

 I will show a few things I have made that I can show.

  I don't think the people I made them for read my blog so I should be safe, LOL. 

I made another Nightingale quilt using the Dorothy's Journey fabric. 

 I just finished binding it!  

I have not taken a photo of the finished quilt yet though.  

Michigan weather has NOT been cooperating with my photo taking! 

 So just a sneak peek of this one.

Cole and I have been busy.  

I need to make 3 Christmas stockings.  

One for a friend and 2 for my sister-in-law.

I got started one of them the other day.  

I made stockings for this little one's parents when they got married. 

 Then I made them for their twins.  

Now it is time to make for the newest addition to their family. 

 You can see the front and the lining in this picture.

This is the back and still the lining.

Ta-Da!  The finished stocking all ready to mail out soon!

I had one block left over from the baby quilt so I decided rather than have an orphan block I would make it into a pillow cover for the baby.

This is the front of the cover, using the orphan block.

I had some fabric left over from making the quilt so I used it on the back.

If you look closely, you can see the zipper flap. 

 I was pretty excited to put a zipper in the back.

I will send it off with the quilt.  

They will just need to purchase a pillow form to make it into a pillow.

I have also been doing some test embroidery for Meags and Me.

This is one of the adorable parts of their Goodbye quilt pattern.  

I have finished all of the embroidery for the quilt, now I just need the actual quilt pattern to finish it.

They needed testers to use the format I use to check if the embroidery was alright, which it was.

Isn't it so adorable?

Hubby and I went out to pick up some things at Cabela's today for the basket raffle at our church.

We stopped in Dundee and shopped a bit.  Most of the shops have closed, sadly.

We walked by the river and I snapped this pic of us.

I have some more to share, but I need to take some photos.

So until then, happy stitching!

~XOP~

Camping with the Kittens

Some of you may know that we parked our camper for the whole week at the 

Covered Wagon Camp Resort.  

We had our son's dog for most of the week while he and our daughter and her boyfriend were using our truck and camping up north in their tents.  

They came back on Friday and we all went to the camper for dinner.  

We brought the kittens with us to spend a few nights.

First let me say that while it was great to take the camper out, 

the campground was not really "resort" like, LOL.  

There was, however a super creepy slide!  

I took a few pictures to share.  There is a pond with a raft for the kids to play on too.

I thank that, back in the day, this place had to be pretty cool.  

This slide would have been amazing to go on as a kid!

Interestingly it ends in some brackish water and at the end of the water trough is a cement slab.  Better make sure your raft stopped before you were launched onto the cement!!  

They have a nice playground, a train that runs on the weekends with lights and putt putt at the front of the campground.  all, slightly, run down, but they had a AWESOME pool!  

We never made it to the pool but if the weather had been better I would have loved to have gone.

Finn was exhausted by all the activity.  

My daughter bought them both collars, tags, a harness and leash.  

We put the boys in the pet tent for awhile then put on their harnesses and leashes. 

 Finn was up for exploring but Cole thought we were killing him, LOL.  

He laid down and would not move!  haha

They BOTH loved looking out the screen door.  

I think I am going to have to find some kind of screen protector from little kitten claws though, sigh.  Cole has the brightest eyes!

As you can see camper life seems to agree with all my boys!

We did spend some time in Dundee.  

We were looking for something to do and ran into a small tractor show. 

 I thought this view was so pretty.

I think this is one of my favorite photos of Finn.  He is much easier to photograph then Cole.  

When I found this rug I had to buy it.  I think this is so true for us!

I did manage a little sewing but no photos, maybe tomorrow.  

I think we are going to be going camping again this weekend in IN near Shipshewana.  

Stay tuned for more of our camping adventures as we figure this all out!

~XOP~