craft overload

Well, let me just say thank goodness it’s too hot to go outside and play, because my boys and I have been deprived of quality sunshine because I have been in a craft frenzy.  If you have been reading lately you know I just finished a few projects for customers and then yesterday I decided that a special little girl, who just turned one, needed a quilt.  I’ve wanted to make and “actual” quilt and now that I have my fancy smancy machine I can do that with ease.  So, I started cutting out squares yesterday morning and finished sewing the top together last night, then I quilted it this morning and by lunchtime it was finished. 

I thought I was going to take a break from crafting for the rest of the day and take a nap when the boys did, but the fabric arrived for the baby’s room. So, I was just sitting in the baby’s room with the fabric all laid out and thinking about what I would do first, when I had a thought. Why not make fabric prints for the existing frames I had in the room already? The ones that were on the wall had bright prints of bugs and did not go with the pastels in the fabric. So, I cut out 4 different scenes from the “Over the Moon” Toile and sewed them to coordinating striped flannel fabric for a mat affect. There are 4 different flannel backing colors, yellow, pink, green and blue and I sewed a satin stitch in pink thread around the toile so it would stand out. Then I hung a mosquito netting tent over the crib, it was one we had over our bed, but it’s been sitting under the bed since we moved. Jay installed the drapery rod tonight and I used some existing green drapes we have had for awhile.  It’s really starting to look nice and I’m having lots of fun!  More pictures of the the quilt in progress and the baby’s room on Flickr, just click on the pictures and it will link you to the site.  Enjoy!