Julia Update and More Pictures

If any one missed earlier post Julia Dawn Healey was born 3/28/2012 at 3:07 PM MST in Salt Lake City UT.  She was 21 inches and weighed in a a hefty 9 pounds 12 ounces.  I have posted 25+ pictures of her on her blog http://juliadawnhealey.blogspot.com/ and will continue to do so over the next days weeks and years.

 Train Wrek my quilt that started all of my wild quilting I had to take a picture with Julia and the quilt before she even got a bath.

 As you can see she is not bald.  We can almost braid that hair on her head.  Look forward to seeing how cute she looks after all the crinkled I am squished look goes away. (not that she is not beautiful now)

Last but not least having this addiction to quilting means a day can not go by with out something.  Many weeks back I won some hexi plastic thing's (not even sure what they are called) and I managed to make one flower and about 4-5 extra petals.  Wow that hand sewing stuff takes a long time, not sure If I could make many of these, but was neat to try something new.  Any way off work for the next 4 days and will I am sure make something else Quilt y to show off tell then your stuck looking at my Beautiful addition to our family Julia Dawn Healey.

http://juliadawnhealey.blogspot.com/

Julia

She is here more details later



born 3/28/ 2012 3:07 pm mst Salt Lake City Ut
21 inches and 9 pounds 12 ounces

all is well with wife and baby

WIP Wednesday #7

Today is going to be a Work In Progress Wednesday.   And will be linking up with Freshly Pieced. 

Completed Projects:

3 completes Been Puzzled, Dancing Butterfly, And Bingo Card

Ready To Quilt:
4 new tops

Ongoing Projects:
1 Quilt 5 X 5 blocks.  Also Jeans for Jared, and I started cutting up the John Deer Rag quilt this week all material cut up just need to start putting it together and sewing X's.  Man Quilts 2 more like Dad's Zag Zag and Paisley Parade I have enough X's sewed for 1 and half of these. Started cutting the Orange Material for disappearing  16 block  quilt.

Planned Quilts:

1 Case Machinery Lap Quilt for a brother in law. (bought the back and then used it on another project sigh need to go shopping again)

2 Bug Jar Quilts for nephews.
Tanya's Lap quilts from her fat quarters.
Rose Fabric for Mother In Law's Quilt.

Totals:
Finished: 10 March, 10 February, 7 January 27 total for year
On Going Projects: Too many to count
Planned: 6 (though I keep thinking I am missing a couple)

We will be at the hospital today so that is also a planed thing today so YEA baby!

Another Top But on the way to the hospital

 Last night while waiting for this baby day to come I sewed together another top.  This is the second Granny Square top first found here they are similar, but not identical.  As some have noticed that is a thing with me.  For example the 2 dragonfly quilts and multiple man quilts.  I get a lot of comments about how much I do.  I have severe ADHD and go literally crazy while sitting still. I  now quilt and quilt and quilt and quilt.  Hum good thing I have a wonderful supportive wife.

While waiting for the time to leave to hospital tonight, I started cutting more stuff.  Any one can guess what color it will be?  Yep Orange, Orange, and some more Orange.  Maybe a little bright reddish orange and a little Yellow tossed in for good measure.  Some one mentioned a disappearing 16 block and while now I just have to make one (or 12) and another quilt.  Hum maybe 2 quilts its just a thing with me.  Wife is trying to push me out the door so goodbye for now.

Julia's almost here

While I packed her quilt into the car today for those that are not sure what this quilt is its called Train Wrek it was my 4th Quilt that I made and first one I planned ever to make.  It is for Julia.  It was for her and my desire to have quilts for her that I started this crazy journey  3 1/2 months back.  We went to the last Dr apt today and he has scheduled a date.  So I will not take any more guesses, but we are far from determined on the date/time or the weight of this baby.

The plan is for Tanya to be started Tuesday night with a hopeful delivery date of Wednesday the 28th.  If my rough guess is correct their are 4-5 people in the running to win on that date.  My plan is if you get with in 30 min of the correct time or closest one to that time if more then one in the 30 min time you won.  If no one is within 30 minutes since there is at least one guess of a date with out a time (and I was not well to explain that in the post that you should have both) then I will put any one with the date alone and any one with in 12 hours of the birth time into a hat (so if she is born at 11pm and you guessed 6am the next day your still in the draw etc) and will have Jared draw like my last 2 drawings.  Right now its down to as I said 4-5 people.

In addition I had the ability that you could have more then 1 guess if you met the criteria.  Some people put in multiple times with out giving a diffident date or time so each of those guesses will count as one name in the hat.

Any way good luck to all that are potential in the running.  On birth weight I we will do the closet in ounce's to the birth weight if their is more then one equally close (or exact) we will put their names in the hat and draw.  The Dr said it will be a big baby but not too big.  So no clue what that means so every one will just have to wait to see who is in the ball park on weight.

I will post a picture here when she is born but the bulk of pictures and info will be on Julia's blog at http://juliadawnhealey.blogspot.com/ and I will post there as we get closer to this thing happening.

Thanks for all the well wishes to us and our family were excited about this.