Day Two of Leprechauns

I know...this is supposed to be a quilting blog..but I am going to do 2 weeks of leprechaun madness cause it is so fun.

This morning they awoke to letters from their leprechauns, Jeff and Eric. They were very excited and Jeff had managed to get out of the trap that was set!

Tonight they both have written letters and one has a new trap ready to go.
You will see that my youngest is still holding his leprechaun Jeff to his promise to take us to Ireland this summer!

This trap is in the middle of the room in the dark. My son often gets up in the middle of the night... I am wondering if he is going to catch himself or a leprechaun.

The Leprechauns Are Back!

If you have been following me for a while, you know that we have leprechauns that come to our house. They have been coming for the past four years.

Each year, about 3 weeks before St. Patrick's Day they come every night, and both my boys set traps to try and catch them. Last year was the most elaborate with a whole pulley system, game cameras and boxes. And we didn't catch them.

The past two years it has been the same two leprechauns returning - Jeff and Eric. My kids are anxious to see if it is them again this year.  When they left last year, my kids had made them small beds, quilts, pillows and toys for them to take.

Jeff promised my youngest a trip for four to Ireland this year.   I don't know how he can pull that off. Seriously.

My youngest has his trap ready.

As always he writes him a letter. This is it below... he is not sure if it is Jeff so he had to start the letter with a '?'. How cute is that? I did block out the phone number and his email. As we only want Jeff to use them=)

He said he couldn't write for much longer as it was way past his bedtime when he remembered he had to write a letter! And knew his mother was getting impatient. 

I will let you know tomorrow if indeed the leprechauns are here and  if Jeff came back!

Stay tuned......

My Trend-Tex Challenge and Leprechauns

First, let me say that 'Lisa in Port Hope' won a copy of 'Kitchen Stitches', the book published by Martingale that has 2 of my projects in.    Congratulations Lisa!

I have been working away on my 'wearable' for the Canadian Quilters' Association Trend-Tex challenge.  I have sewn the outside of the bag together.  This is the back.  I went with the bright green fabric for the sides and bottom.

Excuse the clutter, I do quilt in a mess when I get creative!

Above is the front of the bag.

I started working on the lining and put in a few pockets for keys and iphones.   I even used the selvedge.

Now you may be wondering why I put leprechauns in my title.  Each year a few weeks before St. Patrick's Day, the leprechauns visit my 2 little boys and my kids try and trap them.  Over the years they have begun writing letters to them as well and for the past 3 years the same two leprechauns have come to visit them - Jeff and Eric.   They have become good friends with them.   My kids still try and trap them but they also are really nice to them.   

Last year they made them quilts.  This year they felt that Jeff and Eric needed beds.   Of course green is a leprechaun's favourite colour and I happen to have green on my cutting table, along with the rest of my Trend-Tex fabrics, so guess what happened?

This is my youngest son's creation.  The blue blanket slips inside the green bed to give him a very warm sleep and you can see how trendy that pillow is.  I wonder if I can enter this into the challenge as a wearable?  The instructions didn't say it had to be for humans=)

My oldest son made a bed but didn't want his leprechaun to worry about losing his top sheet so he ingeniously sewed it down on one side.

And just to show you how caring my kids are, they left food out for them on tiny leprechaun sized plates with matching sized cutlery.

The bottom left is green rice!   Jeff, the leprechaun turned it green while we weren't paying attention right before supper tonight.  The little stinker=)

A Promise To My Kids

I have been promising my kids that I would put one of their quilts on my blog.  They each made one for their leprechauns during this leprechaun season as they try and catch one.   My youngest has caught one twice but the leprechaun has escaped by morning!

Here is my 9 year old son's quilt for his leprechaun.

This is the quilt my 7 year old made for his leprechaun.

If you feel so inclined, please leave a comment for them.