I'm proud

I finally finished a project I've been working on since December about a month ago, but just getting around to working on it.  And since my playroom is actually clean at this very moment, I decided to take a picture and post.

As part of my work with Lucy, I was helping to stage a home she was trying to sell.  The owner wanted to get rid of this really tall bookshelf  I told her I would take it, since I always have books that need shelves :) 

Once I got it home, I decided I wanted to use it in my playroom, but thought it would be silly to have a bookshelf that the kiddo couldn't reach most of the things.  So I lay it down on it's side.  I used the anchor shelves and drilled holes using Jared's Dremmel tool.  As you can see in this picture, I used a T-square and level to draw a straight line, then tried to drill in the middle of the line.  

 I'm pretty happy with it, and it hold most of Paul's toys.

P.S. The black and purple toy holders are from IKEA.  The purple were four for 2 or 3 dollars, and the black ones from 2 a piece, I think.  

Moby Wrap

There are a couple of babies being born soon so as I was thinking of what to do, I heard about Moby wraps. I guess I had seen them before but never paid much attention. But now...Oh I wish I had known about these when Afton was born.

So I "researched" them and found out all you really had to do was get a strip of fabric 20-30" wide and 5 yards long. and that's it. But I wanted these to be a little more...well, more. So I put a yard of cute fabric in the middle.

These are the fabrics I made the big ones out of

I didn't get a picture of the big ones on but I made a mini Moby for Jo and the babies loved it

Busy, busy!

I have had lots of baby showers to go to recently so I've been sewing a lot for them. It's been so much fun! I would sew all day long if I could! On a side note, my best friend Susan and I are going to start a little etsy shop selling our baby gear. I like to make slings, nursing covers, appliqued/ ruffles onesies and baby legs. Susan does great diaper bags, purses, nursing covers and burp rags. I'll let everyone know how that is going! But back to the pictures:

I made this nursing cover for my friend Katie

with a burp rag corner sewn in

Matching quilted card for her

These are from my phone= poor quality

This was for my friend Savannah

Burp rag corner

Made these baby legs for my chubby bubby.

Once again, bad photos. The colors are really much prettier!

Susan and her mom made me an AMAZING diaper bag out of these fabrics

so as a thank you to her mom, I made this quilted card out of the scraps

Made this card for my MIL's birthday. 

I made myself a baby sling to replace the one in the Yukon. I created my own tutorial for it! I'm so proud! Photos to come! 

Thanks for looking!

Last minute gift

Love the fabric for this nursing cover

Craft Weekend Warm-up

Chelsea and I warmed up our crafting muscles for the big craft day tomorrow. I also broke in my new machine. I got it because my old one is a 1950's singer and it does a fabulous straight stitch, but nothing else... so this machine can do some applique, which I've been wanting to do for a long time. So far, I love it, even though it's not the fanciest machine on the block. I finally got around to doing a baby girl quilt top that I've had the fabric for for quite awile. This is just the quilt top, so I'll post it when it's quilted and bound, but I love the fabric. This is from the village shop's blog and it's called multi-stripe baby quilt. It's soooo easy. I think it took my an hour and 45 minutes total.

Chelsea and I made 3 nursing covers for Sylvia's daughter in law's (step daughters?? I don't know what to call them). I chose the fabric and cut them out, and chelsea did the sewing. I wanted to keep the polka dotted one for myself. Chelsea also made some Stardust cloth baby shoes from the scraps of my baby quilt I made and from the nursing covers. I love the quilted shoes! Definitely going to have to try that again. After seeing these cute polka dotted shoes, I was really mad I didn't buy more of that fabric. I love it.

A boxy bag that I loved so much that she gave it to me :)

My fam bought this yarn at Sin City Yarn in San Francisco while they were on vacation. It was my dad's idea for Chelsea to make a scarf for Grandma out of it because she looooooves soft things and the color green. It was $15 bucks a skein (yowza!) and it took 3 skeins, but it is literally the softest thing I have ever felt.

And here's the lady herself modeling it:

Nursing Cover

I never posted this because it's been in use too much to photograph, but I highly recommend this tutorial to anyone interested in making one either for yourself or for an expectant mama. Super easy to make and soooo nice to have for nursing...much better than a blanket.

I am obsessed with paisley, and this was the ONLY paisley print in the WHOLE store, and since I bought the fabric the day I had the baby, I wasn't really in the mood to go to another store with my swollen feet and belly! :) But I think it's cute nonetheless.