The day before Christopher was born, last June, my mother and I were running errands. The Fabric Store is ALWAYS on her to-do list! (she has 16 grand babies and 6 of them have been born in the last two years... she makes a blanket for EVERY-SINGLE-ONE!)
Anyway... we were in the fabric store when I laid eyes on this quilt and fell in love with it.
I was about to have a baby, and I knew it was a boy, plus I was already in the middle (okay, beginning really) of another quilt...
It took a lot of talking... but I did manage to convince myself that I could leave without the fabric to make it.
My Mom said... "It's so easy, we could put it together tonight. If one of us cuts and the other sews, we'll have done in no time!"
So I say..."I don't know, I really shouldn't spend the money on it..."
To which she replies..." Well, you have a birthday coming up, I'll just buy it for you!" So she bought the fabric and we headed out the door... (My mom does this sort of thing, she just can't help it. She loves to make people happy... In fact, this year for Christmas she made aprons (including ruffles and pockets) for all the girls in our family. And that my friends is something like... TEN aprons!!!)
Now, I did mention that this was the day before Christopher was born, but I didn't know that then... well I sort of didn't know that. I was a few days overdue and I had had a doctors appointment that morning which was Wednesday, and he told me "I am busy this weekend, so let schedule and induction for Monday." If you've had kids, you know what 5 more days feels like when you're already past due.
Jim and I stopped on the way home to pick up some caster oil.
It happened to be the wrong kind, so my mom and I picked up the right kind, along with a smoothie to pour it into.
I didn't feel any different, I assumed that caster oil was an old wives tale and it wouldn't do anything. For a while it didn't... until it did. Not labor... but several bathroom trips. Until, finally at 3am, a trip to the hospital where Christopher was born that morning.
(any excuse to stick a cutie baby picture up there. By the way... this is the face that most folks get when meeting Christopher these days - not a big smile, or tears... just a casual "yeah, so?")
Needless to say, that lovely fabric did not get cut and pieced back together that night... it sat for several days. During those first few weeks when sweet baby Christopher slept, I was able to put it together.
That is to say, the quilt top is finished. I still need to back and bind it. But Christopher doesn't sleep quite as much these days, and when he does... there are so many other things that need to be done.
I know I'll get it finished eventually... maybe when his royal cuteness starts school?
amazing quilt...err quilt top:)
Posted by: heather | 03/10/2010 at 09:35 AM
I so many unfinished projects, including quilts. You are not alone!
Posted by: Kirsten H | 03/10/2010 at 03:54 PM
The quilt looks like it will be awesome when you finish it. He is such a cutie!
My 5th baby was 8 days late!! What's up with that? Aren't they supposed to get earlier with each one? :)
Posted by: MelanieJ | 03/10/2010 at 04:03 PM
I know Melanie... Christopher was my third,I thought for sure I'd have him at least a week early! Well better late than never I guess and he was certainly worth the wait!
Posted by: Scrapburbia | 03/10/2010 at 09:04 PM
They always are :) And it is interesting to see that once they are here, you wish you had just a bit more time to prepare things before they arrived.
Posted by: MelanieJ | 03/11/2010 at 09:45 PM
Oh girl the castor oil worked on me. I thought if I had to eat one more TUMS I was going to scream so I decided to induce my labor instead. So with being a week past due I followed the recipe of castor oil and orange juice followed by chocolate times 2 4 hours apart only if first dose doesn't work. Let me just say that it did. The chocolate binds the oil up so it can be dissolved as well.
Posted by: Lisa J. | 03/23/2010 at 09:06 PM
I did have fun, and I worked on it a little more one week night.
I'll tell ya if you ever have a baby, get a walker, Sadie has one and that's what allowed me to do some work, she zipped back and forth around my feet while I painted!!!
Posted by: Puma Outlet | 09/08/2011 at 07:51 PM