I received happy news at about 10:30 last night. My sister-in-law gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, making me an aunt for the second time. And, giving my in-laws five consecutive granddaughters, zero grandsons (yet). (And no, that's not a hint about anything. We have done our share for the grandchild count).

But I admit that after we hung up the phone with Eric's brother and laid down in bed, my thought, as I was drifting off, was annoyance with myself. I haven't gotten the new baby's quilt done yet!!!

Now, granted, she did arrive a week and a half early...surely I would have had it all done if she'd arrived on her due date, right? Or even just a teensy bit late?? I'll tell myself that and try to believe it.


Here's the quilt (thanks to Jenny for the link to the pattern) as it looked this morning, all spread out on my kitchen floor, rows waiting to be sewn together. I now have only three more rows to join up, and then the quilt top will be complete. And after a hugely lengthy trip to the fabric store this morning (did everyone in the world decide they needed to shop at Joann's today?) I now have the material for the backing and binding. Which means I'm all set! I've just got to sew those last three rows. And put together the top, the filling, and the backing. And quilt the whole thing together. And sew on the binding. Yeah, there's not much left to do at all.

I know there's no way in the world I can get the whole thing done this afternoon, before we go meet this new little one. There's just not. (sigh). But...I'm still going to sew my little heart out the rest of the day. So maybe I can get it done by what her actual due date was, and claim to have been on schedule all along.