birthday breakfast

My friend, Heather, is having a birthday this week, so this morning a bunch of us went out for breakfast to celebrate. I couldn't go empty handed (and of course I give handmade) even in the midst of a move. This is what I came up with. Beads compliments of my blogger pals Susan and Amy Jo. Thanks, my friends!

I knit this hat using the knifty knitter. I wrote a whole post about the wonders of the knifty knitter here. The hat that inspired this one is on that post as well. This is just the adult version.

I think I need to go out to breakfast more often. I had eggs benedict and hash browns. (YUM!) It's nice to consume all of your calories for the day in right off the bat. One less thing to worry about today. :)

what I did on my (last weekend of) summer vacation

Sandwiched this quilt.

Started quilting it.

Decided that stippling wasn't the right style of quilting for the graphic design of the quilt. So I ripped one bobbin's worth of stitching out if the quilt. It was very time consuming. Now I am stitching in the ditch, and I am not good at it.

Threw a birthday party for my sister.

Which called for some home made banners (paper and yarn) with the help of my oldest.

And baked a few cakes. And cooked. And cleaned.

My brother and my other sister stayed overnight.

Went to a Labor Day party at my sister's place. Took the kids swimming and enjoyed hanging out with my family.

Made a pair of pajama pants for Zach.

My fear of sewing clothing is decreasing. I actually followed a pattern.

I used Simplicity 4336. It was quick and easy.

Beaded a necklace.

And some earrings. Sulu inspired, for sure.

And I worked on quilting my quilt.

What did you do?