This week's craftiness

The nesting continues! Though I only get to it in spurts here and there, I'm happy to say that my sewing machine is feeling loved again. And I've started on accessories for the nursery, so I'm all over the place. Oh well.

Never fear-by next weekend, or a week from tomorrow at the latest I can get started on baby's room, and then there will really be some fun things going on! This week I decided to make myself some of the burp cloths that I've always made for others but not myself. Hopefully I'll discover that they really are good and people haven't just been lying to me! : ) And I've really fallen in love with minky fabrics which thankfully aren't nearly as hard to work with as I was originally told. phew! So my blanket is minky velvet, edged with some fabric that my parents brought me from a trip to Hawaii 5 or 6 years ago. It has been waiting for the right project for a long time-it worked out perfectly! (and there is more left still-yay!) I finished the bedding, window treatment and some "art work" (ha!) for the boys room (the ones moving downstairs next week), finished up the valance for the nursery, and just have the crib quilt to finish now. Look at me go! Dang-I wish I could be this productive on a regular basis. Or at least be this productive when it comes to house-keeping. Whatever, you're not supposed to have your cake and eat it to! (Mmmmm....cake.....)

The blanket-and matching burp cloth below


Hopefully the minky will work well for spit-up!


And I have to share this one too-b/c it turned out well! Thank goodness! This is a quilt made of pieces of baby clothing that I did for a friend of mine. I was absolutely terrified of botching this job-especially since it's not like this was something I could just go to the fabric store and buy more of if I messed up on part of it. The back is pink minky dot (matches the few small pieces of minky dot on the front). It was a fun project! Thanks Lisa for trusting me with your princess's memories! : )


So now, if I can just keep up at this pace for two more weeks, I should be able to get everything done, and still have a couple of weeks to just sit and do nothing and "rest" before baby gets here! (did you check the countdown?!? 39 days left till d-day!)