Tennessee waltz Quilt

Sooooo,

I was thinking I'd try to do a traditional quilt. I don't usually do those. I can't recall if I have ever made a traditional quilt, in traditional colors. It's a bit out of my wheelhouse.

But, this is new for me. So I did some mock-ups of some color ideas I liked. I went to designs seeds.com to find the beautiful color palettes.

As you can see, it's a tennessee waltz pattern. I did some color mock-ups in Illustrator, and yes there is a way to register all the edges and make it look nice, but I didn't feel like taking the time to do that, because my daughter was eating paper, and it took some time to fish-hook the wet papery gob out of her mouth before she gagged....again.

Hmn, now that I'm looking at them all together they are all pretty boring. That must be why I don't do to many traditional quilts.

That's ok. I am doing so many tutu's for the nutcracker, that I don't really have the time to do this. At least I didn't buy the fabric and begin it, leaving it an unfinished project mucking up my sewing area. 

I've got tulle to gather, and boning to sew into bodices.

I'll have to show you guys a peek next time I blog. Ha ha, who knows when that will be?

R

Baby Girl

So, if you read my humor blog rude and rudy, you know that I am pregnant with our second child, and it's a GIRL!

I've been brainstorming on how to set up the nursery since we plan on keeping the baby in the same room with our (almost) three year old.

Here's some of what I'm hoping to use and somethings I just love. I'm falling in love with navy blue's with pops of orange and red. Right now all of the room is in white. I borrowed my sisters 13 year old crib and dresser and painted it white for our son three years ago. Well, it's quite large for the room, especially if we're going to have both the kids together. So it may be the time to retire the set that has safely seen 5 children grow, and get a smaller crib and dresser.

My inspiration for the nursery

Storage idea

My son's bed!!! 

I'm in love with these for the baby girl's bedding

Love all these colors together

So patriotic...and lovely

Want this crib

Love this pattern for a quilt

Right now, we're using another hand-me-down twin bed from my other sister, but it turned out a bit too big for the room as well. So we ordered a bed with storage that saves us precious inches.

Here's my son on his bed with his blanket and sheets that HE picked out. I didn't ask him to pick out something blue to match with the rooms or anything. He call's it his WoodyBuzz blanket and I find him dragging the comforter and the pillow into every room.

He refuses to smile for photos anymore, he likes to either grimace
or put his foot in front of his face. HIS FOOT. I don't know
why, he's three.....draw your own conclusions

I have been thinking/devising/brainstorming a nursery layout that would allow me to walk into the room without maiming myself on a corner, or tripping on furniture. So much that I measured the entire room, all the furniture I *want* for the room and the best flow patterns. I came up with about 7.  

Here's what I've landed on today.

It's an odd shaped room, with a weird entry way. The cut-outs are the other room's closets. 

Still, hopefully it's just enough for our growing family.