Scrap-Happy

     I started this project during the long week before Nathan was born. I cleaned out my fabric drawer, cutting a bunch of 6" squares and then halving them crosswise.  Throughout the winter the kids and I sewed them together ~ they enjoyed choosing one triangle from the "dark" bag and one from the light "bag."  After that I laid it out, sewed the rows together, backed it (with fabric from my sister - thank you, Erin!), quilted it, and just this week finished binding.
     It was my first attempt at free-motion quilting.  Near the end, as I gained more confidence, I added some words (thanks, too, to my sister Michelle for her encouragement. :)

Toward the bottom it reads:

Scrap Happy

a quilt for Marie, my Baby Girls

Love, Mom ~ April 2011

And, way at the bottom,

"The Lord is the strength of my life."