Where have I been? (and a quilt)

Some of you may have been wondering where the heck I went! Well, to be honest...I needed some time away from things. When I say things, I mean everything. I grabbed my stuff last Monday and bailed off to Nevada where my sister's family lives literally in the middle of nowhere. Her husband is a state park ranger so I mean it when I say the middle of nowhere because they live in the state park. 

It was a great week of total relaxation. I really needed to shut my brain off and not think about anything going on in my life. It was so wonderful to do absolutely nothing. I didn't check my emails, flickr, blog, pinterest, hardly facebook, sent no texts (except family members that needed something), didn't make any unnecessary calls, or shop. Ya, I actually intended to go fabric shopping but when it came down to it....I wasn't in the mood to sew or even look at fabric. I even spent all day Friday sick to my stomach from this little growing baby inside me. I did manage to pay some bills but that's about it.

I just got home and settled in and I feel so revitalized. I feel like I know how to get a handle on things and what's really important to me. It was a time a took out for myself and didn't worry or meet the needs of anyone else with the exception of my daughter. We tend to get so wrapped up in dumb things and deadlines that we're stressing ourselves out and making it hard to focus on what's really important. I really needed to just get away, clear my mind, and not worry about anything. My husband has been gone for work so he wasn't around this past week anyways. It's hard having a husband that travels for work and gone for days to weeks at a time. 

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Anyways! Enough about that! Here is something I've was working on long before I left! I finally had a chance to take some pictures so now I can post about it. I'm making a quilt! I've been working on so many other little projects.....it was time. 

Using a Glimma Roll of 2.5" strips I got from Westwood Acres, I began to cut. As I was sewing the pieces together I've really come to love this pallet. It's absolutely gorgeous. I'm sure that's old news to you but as for me...I finally got around to making something with this line. 

I think I love it so much that I want this to be the color pallet for my daughter's room someday. As in...she doesn't have her own room yet! I'm kind of cramped in an one bedroom apartment at the moment...that's San Diego living for ya!

 I went with a basket weave style. It's simple and didn't require me to cut anymore...which means the quilt won't keep shrinking. I thought about adding large solid white or grey borders but can't decide. What do you think I should do? Leave it as is?

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