Busy Little Sewer

Whew! This last weekend has been really productive. We played musical furniture between our house and my parent house. We got the bunk beds set up in Lowe's room and moved everything else around in the office/sewing room/guest room and got the baby's room all set up...furniture wise.

Here's a picture of Lowe's big boy bed! The quilt ended up looking awesome if I can say so myself. Lowe really likes it and has actually slept in his bed for the last 3 nights! He's only gotten out of it once last night because he wanted to watch the baseball game with daddy. Pretty good huh? We've got the pack and play set up still because he won't take his naps in the bunk bed...at least he still takes them in the pack and play!

I got the set of three blankets finished for the nursery, the three pillowcases and the bedskirt!!! I also have the quilt top done but since I'm not done done with the quilt, a picture of that will have to wait until later!

The pillowcases and blanket set are from sew4home.com and the bed skirt is from aloadofcraft.blogspot.com. I love how other people can come up with this stuff so I can make it!!!

Here's a close up of the pillows...the striped black and pindot green are from the Robert Kaufman Pimatex Basics collection (that's the one I picked out for the nursery...) and the light blue just matches the collection so I got it from Joanns.

Here's a close up of the three blankets. The one on the left is the "Baby Bear Blanket"...it has flannel on the back and a decorative stitch around the edge. The middle one is the "Mama Bear Blanket" and it's got minky dot on the back and jumbo ric rac around the edge. Jumbo ric rac is now just about my favorite embellishment...and the blanket on the right is the "Papa Bear Blanket" and it's just two cotton fabrics with a bound edge. All the blanket tops and the binding are from the Robert Kaufman fabric collection.

Here's about the best close up I could get of the bedskirt...it's pleated with cobalt blue fabric from Joanns that matches the striped fabric from the RK collection. I had to fussy cut that striped one to get the stripes to run up and down. I also had to cut a bunch of ties from that same striped fabric for the bumper pads I've got in the works and those were fussy cut also! I almost didn't have enough fabric since the stripes ended up running the opposite way than I thought they would have! But it all worked out!

So yeah to getting things done! I can't wait to finish the quilt and make the bumper pads. I've ended up with a lot of extra fabric from the collection so I'm super excited to make some other smaller items like burp cloths, binky straps, maybe a nursing cover or carseat canopy...we'll see how ambitious I get!

Catch up...

wow...so i've been a really bad blogger...here are some pictures from Easter!!! Lowe really liked dying the eggs. he did spill one of the dyes...one out of 12 is good though in my opinion!

Lowe had this obsession with Tyler's guitar that i know i've mentioned before but here's another cute picture of him playing it.

I started a new job and it's been great so far. I'm working in a Level III NICU again and it's sooo nice to be back with the little tiny and sick babies...only a nicu nurse would understand why (in a sick kind of nursing way) it makes me so happy to be doing that!!!

In between chasing down Lowe and working 3 nights a week, i've decided to make everything for the new baby's nursery: quilt, 3 blankets, bumper pads, bed skirt, pillowcases for throw pillows, some storage bins, wall art to spell his name out, burp cloths, binky straps, etc. So here's a picture of all the supplies before:

So far, i've gotten two of the simple blankets done and two of the pillowcases. i'll get pictures of those up as soon as i take them! i also finished a twin/full size football quilt for lowe with matching throw pillows and a normal sized pillowcase for his big boy bed. we're doing the furniture musical chairs this weekend so he'll have his big boy bed by saturday!!! so we'll see if he actually sleeps in his big boy bed or if we'll have to set up the pack and play...no more crib after friday night, i want to get him out of it and not associate it with being his by the time we acutally put baby #2 in there...we'll see how that goes!

so lowe and i made this super adorable father's day gift. i got the idea from another blog (which i can't for the life of me remember which one) and lowe had fun helping me make it. now tyler's got something awesome to put at his desk at work! yeah to fathers!!! especially mine and lowes'!!!