R2D2 Quilt

For starters, my family and I are huge Star War fans. We're talking pre Episode VII. I grew up watching Star Wars. I know all the lines. We had all the action figures. Same for my hubster. And is there a better "Welcome home/good job finishing the first two years of med school" gift than a R2D2 quilt? No. No there isn't. I got the idea, not from Pinterest, I just googled "R2D2 quilt". Here is a link to the original blog post by TheBoredZombie.com. By the way, I have sent the original blogger a picture of my completed quilt and from our correspondences she just seems so awesome. 

Ok, so, picture this; a 9 month preggo woman (3 weeks away from her due date) cutting and sewing 1,530 two and a half inch squares. Did I mention that this was my first quilt ever? EVER?! Luckily my mother is an accomplished quilter and was very willing to help me complete it. It only took me about a week to assemble the quilt (sew the squares into blocks and the blocks into rows).

Unfinished

We had a friend help quilt in on her long arm quilt machine and the boarded was hand sewed on by my mom. Manly because I had a newborn to hold and feed and no free hands for sewing. The quilt was intended for the Hubster but the boyz have taken it over and sleep with it on their bed.

R2 found a home. 

Showing the quilt to my mother's local quilt guild.

Update

Its been over three years in between blog posts. I have some REALLY good reasons for the lag. 

To start, the hubbster, myself, and our two-year-old twin boyz moved to the tiny island of Dominica (pronounced DOM-MIN-EEKA) where he attended medical school. We lived there for about a year and four months. It was a crazy experience that I will talk about later. 

When we returned to the United States I was 23 weeks pregnant with our new addition, TomBob. Aka baby number three. I had to do the last three months of the pregnancy without the hubster. He had to return to Dominica to finish his schooling. Then, in August I delivered the 8 lb 5 oz TomBob. He was a week before his due date and a week before the hubster was due to return.

The last 2 years has been crazy to say the least. From August until now I've been navigating life with twin preschoolers, a new born and a med school student. Boy oh boy ain't life grand?

What I want to do with this blog from now on is use it to share my pinning experiences, experiments, failures, and maybe triumphs. Also, I'll post little nuggets of parenting wisdom. Here we go again...