breakfast

breakfast for the 4 year old

:)

Now that I've passed on the gift.....

I can post about making it.  Here's a little baby quilt I made for Katie and Baby Blake (he's a cutiepie!)

 My inspiration quilt again.   Really, really love this polka-dot fabric and must have it.   

 I started mine with a fat pack of these cute bugs and frogs..... added in some fleece solid colors...

 First try.   Epic fail in piecing together.

Second attempt.   Better.

 Layout on the kitchen table to get the placement just right.

 Here's my countertop where I work.  I have to keep things up and out of reach or the little monkeys I live with want to help me.   

 piecing

 pinned and stitching in the ditch

 lines marked with a Hera marker

Clover Hera Marker 

   

close up of the froggies Miss Olive loves so much

quilting finished

then turned the edges over twice and stitched a border.

Now, did I take a finished picture?   Nope.  Blah.  

Maybe Katie will take a picture with mr Blake on the blankie?  

:)

Small baby quilt for someone I know.

Simply Charming Quilt 
found this simple quilt pattern online so I think I'm going to attempt it in blues for "someone" I know....  not naming names til I pass it on....

Up next.......

And the top is together!

Ah HA!   Finally right? 

I placed them all out on my kitchen table to make sure I had the whites in the pattern I wanted.  (2 different whites - polka dot and a vine one which work diagonally across the entire quilt, top to bottom)

Made 6 larger patches out of 9 smaller ones.

and here's the little Olive's bed where the quilt will live.  Just laid it out to see what it looked like. 

Happy so far!! Yes, I am.

This is the one!!!

I think this is the one!  I like the flow of color from pink to purple and I think the values are balanced -

What do you think? - you like??

never give up - more purple patches.

I think I can... I think I can..... I think I can........

Let's try a change in values, shall we?   Light, mid-tone, and the dark... 

quilt layout tomorrow....

Dear Snow,

 

I didn't think it would come to this.   I really wanted to tell you in person, but it's just too hard.  

I'm breaking up with you.  I just can't do it anymore.  It's not you, honestly, you're very pretty when you cover every branch the way you do.  

You have really given it your best to try and hang on.  It's just... it's me.

please don't turn away like that, I never meant to hurt your feelings.  I'm just tired of the cold, the shoveling, the sludge on the roads.

Maybe after a little break we can try again?  Right now I just need something different - some color, some birds tweeting in the beautiful leafy tree tops, some warm, soft grass under my feet.  

I'm sorry.  

me

Help me Obi wan!

Blah!   This is really, really not me.  I'm a color fanatic.  I can choose colors to match something at home even if I'm 200 miles away and it's 99.75% of the time dead-on accurate.   The color wheel is my bestest friend forever.

So, why is this giving me such issues?!?!  

Here you go.... 

had this - 76" long roughly

moved some blocks around to get this.....

same size  - 76" long, different color order  (Choice #1)

 Or - do I want to pull out the pale lavender all together and end with the deep purple?  71" long (Choice #2)

Help me Obi Wan, you're my only hope.

purple patches and a pretty for Monday morning

gotta soon be spring??  right???  please??

Purple patches for Olive quilt.   

Happy Monday!

attempting a dust ruffle

 I've got this little cutie pie you see.   Her brothers both have captain's beds with drawers under the mattress area.   But this little sweetie has a bed from her Aunt Lauren, a pencil post frame with lots and lots of under the bed storage area.  10" of storage area to be exact.   I decided that she needed a dust ruffle but I could not find one at my local store.  Ok, so how difficult could it be to make one?  I've been playing around with the sewing machine a bit, think I'm fairly capable of sewing a straight line without getting my fingers caught, what the heck, let's try it.  Looked all over online for a pattern but my good friends over at Two peas said - it's easy!  Just try it. 

The box spring is made with some sort of white fabric covering, almost quilted so I decided to just have the ruffle coming out under it.  

 Measured length and width.  40" wide x 75" long and a 10" high space underneath.

I started with 2 flat sheets, a white for the center section which will be hidden under the box spring, and a spring green to match the room for the ruffles. 

 

Instead of basting a long stitch and pulling one thread to gather the fabric I decided to pleat 1/2 " sections every 6" to make it a little less fussy (in my opinion)

Pressing a bit before attaching it to the center piece.

Right sides and pressing apart the seam (notice my little helper)

Repeat 3 times.  This is adding the end piece.

                                                              And on the bed

One last close up of the pleats.   I like it. 

calling this project = successful!   Thanks 2peas!   She likes it too!