My First Full Sized Quilt

I have been working on a quilt for Matt's room. He inherited our old blue comforter when we gave him the queen bed last year (or maybe two years ago?) It is getting pretty shabby so I decided to make him a quilt. I took him to Hobby Lobby and let him choose the colors. He picked out three shades of blues, greens, browns and red/oranges. It will have a tan border. I think it is going to be really pretty.  

Here I am cutting apart the pieces for the hourglass pieces.

Sewing the color borders to the center hourglass.

The finished blocks.

Here are the pieces all laid out on his bed so I could choose the block layout.

Here it is "finish-ed" with the tan border, laid over a chair.

Farmer Boy and Homemade Donuts

My niece and nephew have been here for a week and we have been having a ball. I have been reading Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder. They have been tortured by the delicious things the Wilders had to eat. One chapter was about the mother making donuts, and the kids wanted to make them. I had hoped that they had forgotten but Joe brought it up at breakfast yesterday. No, I didn't kick him under the table but I sure wanted to! I really did! ;) So this morning I got up early made the dough and waited for them to wake up.  I let them help putting them in the oil and then put the glaze and sprinkles on. Here they are...(the brown ones are not chocolate but a wee bit on the toasty side, ok a lot on the toasty side!)