Day 17

4/11
Today was very productive. Vicki came over and helped out. We worked on her project for the book, and she helped with alot of sewing, too. Mom worked on the curved diamond project and I worked on some artwork for the book. I also did some sewing this evening! My quilt top is coming together (thanks Vicki!). See.

Day 16

4/10
Whew! Actually it's already Wednesday because it's 2 a.m. I just finished the entire book layout. There are lots of blanks to fill, but at least all it all has a place and now it's just filling all those images and finshing up the projects at the back. oh and yes of course lots of sewing! I think i will celebrate with a glass of wine and then it's off to bed!!!!

Day 15

4/9
Here is some of the progress.

Wow the time is going too quickly! We won't finish before I have to go back to work. Alot will be done, but there will still be sewing to do. Today, Mom focused on sewing I finished up chapters 5-8. We also started one of the projects for the back of the book. There will be three total and two of Mom's friends are helping with the other two.
Here is the start of project #3.

Days 12-14

4/6-4/8
Finished Chapters 1-4 completely! Did alot of work on the house this weekend. We painted the garage and started to paint the livingroom. A frined of Mom's, daughter is an interior designer. She came over Friday to give me some suggestions on the livingroom. How to arrange the furniture, paint colors, etc. Brian & I were anxious to try out her suggestions so we started painting and moving furniture. We still have lots left to paint but it looks so much better from one side anyway!
See.

Day 11

Thurs 4/5
Wow! I feel like we accomplished alot today. The entire book is mapped out. We now have an idea of just how many additional images and samples we need to create. You can see some of the pages taking shape here in the picture. We've been, writing, re-writing, editing, and tweaking, all while sewing too. Over the next few days Mom is focusing on re-writng a few parts and I am focusing on sewing.

Day 10

Wed 4/4
Yikes! the time is flying by! I'm getting afraid i won't get it all done. I stayed up until midnight last night and got all the way though chapter 4, laying out the pages. I just want to get it all laid out so we can see where we need more quilts, diagrams and samples.

Day 9

Tuesday 4/3
Today was a productive day. Here I am hard at work on my awesome Janome machine. We sewed at my house today. Mom made some samples of the step-by-steps for the book. I worked some on the book layout. I emailed my fellow art directors and some friends for some cover input. Everyone seemed to like it and thought it was eye catching. Most of the day I spent sewing on my quilt.


Here you can see the work in progress on the wall.
I am really enjoying this time away from work doing something different. It's a welcome change of pace. I find I have really missed having the time to sew. I find it just as creative and challenging as my "real" job. :)

Day 8

Spent the day at Mom's working on the book. We got alot accomplished. We reworked some of the chapters, I finshed the cover design (which I will post for all your comments) and I started laying out some of the chapters. Tomorrow will be a sewing day at my house.

Days 6 & 7

Didn't get much sewing done on the weekend but I did play around with some embroidery on my MC1100 on Saturday for a few hours. I worked on piecing some of my mountain quilt too.