Hello again, have had a couple of things occur to prevent me from blogging. One being that I am having to relearn how to manage the pictures. I continue to persevere.
- This posting is about Body's quilt. Brody is my niece's 2.5 year old son who is a bundle of activity and brings us lots of joy. The picture below is the bedding set that his Mom got for his crib and room when he was born. Now Brody has a little sister on her way in just 6 weeks. So his parents set up his crib to be a big-boy-bed. Then my niece (Jenica) got the idea of turning the baby quilt into a quilt big enough to fit the big-boy bed. Obviously, the big rectangle in the photo is the baby quilt.
I came up with a design and then we spent some time shopping for the perfect fabric. Jenica lives at least 45 minutes away from me, so we decided to for me to spend Memorial weekend at her house sewing. That way we could work straight thru and not waste time with all the driving or gas money.
At first I thought I could just build the larger size quilt around the smaller one. But I quickly realized that that was a poor plan. Brody's Mom and I took his little quilt apart and began the process of "building" the new one.
First came the striped fabric and getting the "perfect" mitered corners in place. Then a wider navy perimeter was added to the quilt and then another round of stripes ...... (By the way, did you know how hard it is to match navy blue? I really did not realize how many shades of navy blue there are in this universe Egads! That was a pain to accomplish!) ....... The quilt was looking pretty good at this point. Brody was enjoying watching his quilt grow and would often jump up and down on it to show his enthusiastic approval. Similar to the kitty-help I have at home !!
Another round of stripes and navy and we were ready for the best part of the design (IMHO) ..... adding all the stars around the edge that will drop down on the side of the bed
And more stars .......
While I was sewing my niece, Jenica , started working on her own project .... making hair-bows for her daughter, Aubrey who is due to arrive July 6 via C-section. (Jenica calls her C-section date Aubrey's "eviction notice".) Jenica loves the baby bows that are so popular right now so she bought a few. But after a thorough inspection she realized she could make her own. So she has been hard at work creating her own hair adornments for her daughter. She came up with some real pretty ideas and each bow was better than the one before. Jenica's bow work space and mess ! I had the other end of the table to mess up!
Here are some of her initial creations. Aubrey will be "styling" from the day she is born!!!! A bow to match each onesie outfit !
Finally the new flimsy (quilt top) is on the bed and it fits just great!
We finished the 3 day weekend by making the quilt sandwich. I have it at my house now and it is slowly being finished.
I hope this posts with all the pictures clear. For some reason I am still struggling with using the new blog program with IPhoto. I know it is just me .... with each tutoring session I learn and retain a little more.
Thanks for stopping by. God bless you all!
