Saturday, January 28, 2012

Nursery Bedding

For Grant's nursery I took on the ambitious/audacious task of making the crib bedding. I was inspired by this project, which I can't even recall how I came across, from sew4home.com. After spending an inordinate amount of time on the internet looking at crib bedding, and fabrics, and color combinations, I eventually settled on the Taza line by Dena Fishbein and decided to use the crib bumper and crib sheet tutorials from sew4home.com. I slowly collected all of my supplies and finally got started sometime in November. I took my time, did the bumper first, and finished the crib sheet on Christmas Eve (in the nick of time for Grant's arrival on the 28th). It wasn't too difficult for a beginner, but I wasn't in a rush, and I did reference other online tutorials when I wasn't sure how to do something. I even learned how do make continuous bias tape! These are the instructions I found the most helpful for the bias tape although I did watch a couple of YouTube videos to really understand how to do it.
My cousin Beth (of Seasons of Home - you should head over there, they're doing a giveaway!) has become quite the quilter and encouraged me to make an applique quilt which she also helped with (i.e. did most of the work). It is off being quilted right now but should be back in a week or so. The pattern came from this book of pretty simple and modern baby quilts. Here is the quilt top before being quilted. The back is going to be super soft minky.
I'm finding sewing to be less and less intimidating the more that I do it (duh!) and have been looking for my next project. We have a "sisters" quilting weekend coming up in March. Any suggestions for what I should take to work on?

Friday, January 27, 2012

Since Grant Was Born . . .

his big sisters have been doing a lot of

baby gazing,
playing with things in the nursery,

dressing up,
jumping on Mom and Dad's bed,
and staying in their pajamas all day long.

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Proof that there's a baby boy in the house. . .


Ben stood a little too close to the changing table last week while I was changing Grant.

We had a good laugh.

(More hospital/baby pictures coming soon. Oh, and a birth story. Promise.)

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

4 Weeks Old

Grant:

and just for fun. . .

Paige at 4 weeks:

Claire @ 1 month:
which sister do you think Grant resembles?