a milestone week!

what a week so far....the total eclipse (which in the houston area, we had about 70-ish% coverage) on monday AND this guy....

this adorable kid has turned into an awesome young man, who started high school on monday!  their school all got to watch the eclipse with glasses that NASA donated to their school district.  i cannot believe he has grown up so much - about to be 15 years old and has grown 9 inches in the past year.

then our A/C died.  at 9pm, it was still 90 degrees outside...  thankfully, the repair guy came out before lunch yesterday and got it fixed.  replaced the capacitor and topped off the freon, so when i got home, it was cool again.  

last night, i finished ironing the #goarmy quilt top, pieced the backing and basted it.  

still debating on the color thread to quilt it with.  i have red, variagated red and variagated blue, but i'd like a red/white/blue combo most likely.  so a trip to the store looks to be in my very near future.  there are 4 welding caps started and i need to finish the curtains (grrr) and get those out of my house as well.  THEN i can get back to working on my happy pill quilt and a dress or two for me.  

and now, back to the daily grind in the office.

a welding cap model of sorts....

one of the guys who has ordered a few special order welding caps sent this photo...

it wasn't what was expecting, but my hubby knew why it was so funny before i ever saw it (they work together).  this makes me smile every time.  just thought i'd share.  

a #goarmy kind of quilt

a friend of mine has tasked me with making a quilt for a friend of hers as a thank you gift for many things that person has done for her over the years.  my friend, miss A, wanted a quilt to represent the friend's son, who is in the army.  

the first task was finding the army fabric.  originally, miss A mentioned she wanted something similar to the navy quilt her cousin made her that has huge navy seal blocks.  there wasn't any army fabric in a huge print... BUT, i did find this one and she loved it:

step one complete.  on to the pattern... some days the pattern is the inspiration and other days it's the fabric, right?  well, i searched around for a good lap quilt that i *hoped* would highlight the army print nicely.  while looking around at the moda bake shop, i stumbled across the north star quilt and fell in love.  thankfully, so did miss A!

now it's the time to pull fabrics to make up the rest of the quilt.  i'm using a variety of white-on-white prints instead of a solid white to make it a little more feminine.  a few reds, a few blues, some old script (and oop) pledge of allegiance fabric and hmm.... then i remembered...

he's also an eagle scout from before my son crossed over from pack to troop.  i have scout fabric!  let's combine that all together!

DH and the redhead are both out of town, so i have time to myself to quilt and do whatever i want after work.  i'm supposed to be doing some curtains for DH's friend, but those can't be finished until DH is back anyways.  on to the quilt and then welding caps and the curtain.  maybe one day i'll get to a dress, skirt or something wearable for me and keep working on my happy pill bed quilt some more.

the plan is to have the top pieced together this week, then do some other work and come back to quilting.  i've got a few kidney stones kicking around in my right kidney (again) and i do a bit at a time while i'm not terribly uncomfortable.  we'll see what my dr has in store for me later this afternoon.