It's Time Out for Women this week! I'm so happy! Happiness is just falling from all over the place. :) There is nothing quite like it. I must say I consider this weekend to be one of the funnest weekends of the whole year. Though I wish you could come with, I do hope you girls get to have a time out wherever you may be. =)

In other news, I made this quilt:

I really love it! Out of all the quilts I have ever made...

this one takes the cake! 

Seriously my favorite one ever.

Cambria even helped me on this one. I used thangles to make the pinwheels and she sewed the green thangles together.

Since all that involves is sewing on printed straight lines it was perfect for her to do.  Plus, she reached into her personal quilting stash and found the perfect border for the quilt!

I made this quilt for a dear friend's daughter.

She is a very talented artist who started her first year of

college this fall.

I wanted to give it to her before she left for college, and I even had it all ready to be quilted before she left.

A whole month before, to be exact.

But it just took a long time to be quilted.

That's fine.

I get it.
So now I have it ready for this week which turns out to be her 
birthday week. Yay!

I did a blanket stitch for the binding.

Every time I machine stitch a binding, I hate it.  I always say I'll never machine stitch another binding on, but then like a moth to a light bulb I always go back to it.

The back.

I named this quilt

"To Thine Own Self Be True"

I thought it was the perfect name.

Today my neighbor told me that she killed two of her chickens. 
Not just any chickens, but chickens I was quite found of. These two black chickens were best friends with 'my' chicken, Chicken Big (who actually is my other neighbor's chicken, but she lives at my house(the chicken. not the neighbor)). 

I must tell you that I am sad. My heart hurts. 
I loved watching the flock run together. They were pals they keeped each other company. 

I think my chicken misses her friends.

Anyway. For Enrichment we had a service auction where I offered to make a boy or girl baby quilt. The gal who won my offer wanted a boy quilt. And let me tell you--I was going to make this splendid & wonderful quilt. I designed it right away and was so excited. 

But then I cut the fabric out wrong.

And ended up having to make a patchquilt. And see that red border? 

I hate it. 
I couldn't decide what color to go with and went with red. Uck.

And while I'm at it... I don't like the outer border either.

And I'm not too fond of the backing.

So there you go.

I do like the name that I gave the quilt: Little Bunny Foo Foo.

Even though I don't like this quilt so much; I must dedicate it to my chicken's lost friends.

Rest in peace chickies-- as chickens should.

So anyone having chicken for dinner? =)