Tuesday is very proud of her big giant TWIN sized bed. I had picked out some fabric thinking we would just use her crib mattress for a while, but that didn’t work out. I wanted to use the same fabric so I just got a coordinating sheet at Target for the back of this duvet cover.
It’s hard to see in this picture but the sheet set came with a ruffled pillowcase, it’s so sweet. The green pillow was the one we made with Karen and her girls using this tutorial (it’s a great easy one first time sewers!). To piece the top of the duvet with out an obvious seem I used a tutorial from a fellow Portland Modern Quilt Guild member, Elizabeth. I used a fusible web instead of glue though.
It worked really well, and I’m super happy with how this turned out. Now I’m feeling a bit twitchy to make something for the new baby!
Celebrating crafts, kids and the everyday through photographs.
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Tuesday is being so cute about the baby right now. She loves talking to it, but more than anything she likes playing pretend with her baby. Most specifically Thomas (Tommy), her go to baby doll. I got her this little cheap baby doll so she would have something entirely plastic to take in the tub. I’ve already made Tommy a dozen diapers, which were a big hit.
I used this tutorial. The next request was a carrier for Tommy, “Just like you used with me when I was a wittle baby!” “And green, with some polka dots.”
The carrier we used with her was a Baby Hawk (we loved it). So I fashioned this to be similar (I’ve also made this Sew Liberated pattern, and used some of those techniques).
Really pretty easy, it went together quickly, using left over fabric from other projects. Thomas has been with us pretty much constantly lately, so this does free up her hands. Oh, minus that time I dared take Tuesday to the store with out Thomas. Hello 15 minute mega tantrum. Now what to do about the baby she says is in her tummy? The “funky baby”. If you ask her what that baby looks like she does a pose and shouts, “funk”. Oh three year olds, how I love thee. -
Tuesday has been going to bed on her own every night for over a week. It’s crazy! She also has no problem with at least 1.5 hours of rest time. You’d think I’d be getting more time on the computer and all of that, but actually no. Bj and I have rediscovered evenings together and I love it too much to want to be on the computer. We’ve been watching a few shows, he’s been working on projects (troubleshooting everything I somehow do wrong with anything electronic), and I’ve been reading, lots. Ah, I’m sure I’ll figure out some kind of schedule for getting back online, but right now, it’s bliss.
Some of my long suffering projects are getting a little time. I’ve been working on this shawl for a while, it’s easy to pick up without a pattern, so it was my in between project. I’ve never knit a shawl before, I don’t actually know what I’ll do with it. I wore it as a scarf over the weekend. More pictures to come.
Extra bonus points if you can remember either of these.
It does help that I finally got my sewing machine fixed, replaced, actually after having tension issues for a year. So I’m on a sewing kick now. I did finish a few things, and hopefully can add to that list.
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