Jul
13
2009The dawn of this big day found me up before 7. It’s getting harder and harder to sleep solidly with this huge baby furnace attached to me! Not to mention this morning the baby furnace had burned all its fuel and was hungry. Oh well, I’ll sneak in a nap at some point 😀
Our perinatologist appointment is at 1:30 today, but I’m going to spend the morning making this Pinwheel Baby Quilt for one of the twins.
I’m using a charm pack of the pink, green, and brown prints from Moda’s Sultry line designed by Basic Grey. Here are the prints in the charm pack.
The really cool thing is that I have matching scrap booking paper to make the Owl Canvases. I’m super excited about these projects. I just hope I’m awake enough not to slice off my finger with the rotary cutter :-p
I’ll be back later with a twin update.
Jul
11
2009I woke up this morning and discovered my husband sneaking around the kitchen. Derek promptly told me to “Go away.” About 10 minutes later this plate appeared before me.
Now that, my friends, was an empowering breakfast!
We ran errands to Costco, spent a 50% coupon for fabric for one of my baby’s quilts, spent a 40% off coupon on batting and I came home and finished the kitchen mat.
It was my first attempt at free motion quilting. Not bad from the front… fortunately, the back will be resting on floor and not for display. I’ve got a ways to go before I’ll be good at free motion quilting 😀
Jul
07
2009I’ve gotten a little crazy about using all that stash fabric over the course of the last week. I think this is my substitute for the nesting instinct. Nesting is hard on a budget before your baby shower has occured 😉 Anyway, here are some projects using stash fabric.
Flannel baby wipes with the formidable purple cow print flannel. The piece made 36 double sided zigzagged together 7x7ish wipes. I can’t complain 😀
Olive thinks the changing table is her new throne. I wonder what she’ll think when confronted with it’s real purpose..
A camera case (self drafted) using my mother-in-law’s striped Moda print. This is my first time using a Moda cotton and it truly is a higher quality experience.
Two Kimono PJ tops from Amy Butler’s Little Stitches for Little Ones. I finished off some of the cotton knit scraps from my maternity clothing for these. They are not perfect and I definitely didn’t follow the pattern completely, but I figure they’ll be great PJs or running around the house tops next summer 😉
Lap Shoulder dresses for the girls. I used a purchased Gerber lap shoulder onesie to make a pattern for the top portion of the dress. The top portions are made from two worn out tanks of mine and the bottom portions from scraps of cotton from the stash.
A Malissa cocktail dress variation made from the Malissa pattern at BurdaStyle and Gertie’s Tutorial. I swapped some lace I had for this fabric (and some cotton blend shirting) awhile back with no idea what I would make. This Malissa variation sounds great to me at the moment since I can wear the waistband above the bump and it is wide enough for babies. Plus it’s so pretty and would be great for a nice date both now and after the babies are here 😀 Although I must say the design certainly accents the watermelon A LOT more than most of my other clothing.
(I’ll add a photo when I get it taken. It’s been a busy few weeks with no time for Derek to take pictures of my baby bump!)
The sweet owl embroidery on gorgeous scrap handkerchief linen is almost finished! I just need to find my other embroidery floss box for a suitable color for the words and cut binding and backing and buy some more batting (the camera bag used up all my batting scraps from the last baby quilt I made). I was thinking of adding some lazy daisies around the vine in pinks to make it a little girlier since the original was done on a pink fabric and mine was not. Honestly, I hated cross stitch… but I love doing embroidery that’s not counted like this! At least my floss is finding a use 😀
A pieced top for a kitchen mat to go underneath the sink. I’m forever splashing water under the sink in the kitchen and one day I’m going to break my neck slipping on the water. Maybe this mat will help. I need to get some batting and find out! This is my first time making a pinwheel block and it wasn’t nearly as hard as I thought it would be.
I might get to sew some of that red corduroy into a couple jumpers and some pants this week, but I’m not going to count on it. I have an OB appointment, two ropes course facilitating days, two nights of Multiples birthing class, and our neighborhood pool is finally open. From henceforth the twins and I shall be known as Buoy 😉 I am so excited!
Jun
23
2009So after I fell victim to the Matchiness, I felt guilty and had to make them another set of outfits that didn’t match. I bought two coordinating blue, pink, and brown cotton prints at Hobby Lobby and made use of quite a few bookmarked tutorials. I added some cotton yarn (for the piping), some poly fiberfill, and a tiny piece of matching blue cotton (for lining) from the stash. I managed to make 9 toys and 2 dresses for less than $8!
Little balls to kick and throw. I’m having so much fun tossing these randomly at the twins’ daddy that I think I’ll have to teach the girls to do the same! I made these from a tutorial found at Grand Revival Designs.
I would have made these baby cubes forever! I think they are so fun. Unfortunately, I ran out of the scrap blue cotton and didn’t think they’d be as fun without three fabrics. This tutorial is over at London Mummy.
And finally these sweet Itty Bitty Dresses from Made by Rae.
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I’m so proud of the pile of scraps left from the yard and a half of fabric purchased: there are absolutely no scraps of usable size.
Jun
18
2009I have this habit of stashing away fabric scraps that I can’t bear to part with. I keep thinking I’ll turn them into doll clothes or quilts or other little fun things. The scrap stash is actually larger than my normal sized fabric stash. Some of the scraps that I’ve held dearest are my linen scraps from making English Country Dance costumes. The striped pink/blue/yellow, the ginger, the yellow, the blue… I just couldn’t bear to part with them! I used some of the yellow to make 18th century fingerless gloves (mitts) and I used the stripe to line both a set of short stays and my blue gown. But still the scraps whispered to me that they could be more…
And so I introduce to you this tiny little quilt (about 25″x30″) that I have affectionately dubbed “The Tummy Time Mat”. Personally, I’m not a big fan of lying on the carpet because it irritates my skin and I’m also not a big fan of spending almost $30 dollars for a little mat with a pillow to lay my babies on. I love the feel of this linen and it’s wash-ability. I’ll use it inside and out. I just hope they both can fit on it together for awhile 😀
