Crib skirt

I worked on a crib skirt tonight, and can say that I just LOVE this fabric and how the pleats turned out on this!!
Allison, I know you will love it too!



















I have the curtain panels left on this set, and then it's done!

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Something Messy, Something New

Something Messy?














My sewing area right now. I've got strings everywhere, pins of all types mixed together and needs sorting. Folded fabric, wrinkled out of the dryer fabric. Fabric scraps in bins, on table, in bags. Trash bins that over flowing.
I'm thinking I need to take 30 minutes one of these nights and get cleaned up and organized. Even though I feel pretty organized. Everything is out where I can see it! ;)

Something New?


I've recently ordered new custom labels. I had to buy from a new vendor (BellaMental on etsy) and am pretty happy with how they turned out. I ordered three different styles this time. Two foldys, and one flat for quilts. I think I got about 30-40 of each style.











I also ordered some business cards from Overnight Prints on a great deal.





And I stocked up on my favorite fabric starch.


This is Niagara non-aerosol spray and it's wonderful! Much better than the aerosol, it's a light to medium mist. It has a great scent to it, not like the other starches. And it's only $1.87 at Target!! If you can find this, pick it up. You'll love it too.

I hope you enjoyed my mess and my new. Im looking forward to starting on finishing the basement next month. We are working on the playroom (behind me) and my sewing/craft room. I've got many ideas running through my head as to how I want to set it up and decorate it with storage for everything. So stayed tuned on pics of that later!
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Fitted Crib Sheets... Done!

Last night I pinned the second crib sheet together and had it ready for sewing on Wednesday. It just was getting too late for me to finish it. (3:00 am!)



Tonight I went downstairs and finished it up. Now we have two complete fitted crib sheets. :)



Next up in this order is the crib skirt in this fabric:



This is such a cute fabric and the insects are embroidered on.
After the crib skirt is done, I will work on the curtain panels. Which will have the Fresh Poppies Linen fabric again,



and then accented with this honeycomb.







These two will look great together, in fact all three will! I can't wait to see it done and get pics of it!
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Fresh Poppies Linen

I still am finishing the other bed set, just need to finish the quilt up. But I wanted to get started on the next bedding set. Since I was sick last week, I didn't get as much done as I had planned. So I'm kind of a week behind. :(
Tonight I was able to do a table runner for a friend that has an Expo event this coming weekend. Nothing special on the runner, just hemmed the raw edges under. This is such cute fabric she bought from Jo-Anns.




After the runner, I measured out the fabric to cut two crib sheets out for this next order.
This is such a cute line to work with. It's Amy Butler's Midwest Modern, Fresh Poppies in Linen. Amy Butler has to be my all time favorite fabric designer. I love love love all her prints!
I was able to completely sew up one of the crib sheets, so one is done. :) I can't wait to sneak a peak of this on a crib!







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Stitch 6 - November Block

I joined a quilting bee that was started by Emilie from http://www.emiliehandmade.com

There are 12 of us and we will be making two blocks each month. Each member is assigned a month and is to send out fabric of their choice to the other 11 bees. We sew the fabric into a block according to their directions, send the block back and then they piece the quilt together.
I am assigned for the month of February. So I've got a little time to make my final decision on choice of fabric.
I did receive in one of the fabrics for November.



Her directions were to make it a 10.5 inch unfinished block, and whatever design we want. I decided to do a style of the Disappearing Nine Patch.
I took my nine squares and sewn them together in this checkered pattern.



I cut down the middle vertically and horizontally.



I rotated the upper left and the lower right corners, so that those little squares were on the outside of the block.



I sewed these four blocks together.



Since this square was bigger than what she requested, I cut it down to size to form this unfinished 10.5 inch square.



I'll be sending this out to her tomorrow.
If you are interested in seeing the other finished squares you can check out our flickr group here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/stitch6/
I'll be posting the other blocks that I complete as well.
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Bumper Pad

Half of the bumper pad is done! Just need to put the piping on the other two pieces and stuff it with the foam pads. :)






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Summer Song fabrics

I have to run to JoAnn's tomorrow and pick up some matching thread for the Dumb Dot Citron bed skirt, so in the meanwhile I thought I would start getting all the cuts on the Summer Song bedding set. I cut the fabric for that crib skirt and will pick up thread for that tomorrow too.

After cutting the crib skirt, I cut the remainder of that fabric into the squares needed for the patchwork quilt and for the patchwork bumper pad. The patchwork quilt squares were cut at 8.5"x8.5". The bumper pad squares are are 12"x12" to start with and then cut them in half. 

Then you cut them so you have 4" and 8" pieces.

Here is the stack of the other five fabrics we have left to work with.

Next I took the fabric on the bottom and measured that out to size for the fitted crib sheet. I cut the corners out 8"x8" and set that aside for seaming and elastic later.

The remainder of that fabric again was cut into squares for the bumper pad and the quilt.

And now there are four fabrics left...

A growing pile of selvage...

And a bed that is calling me...

Good Night! :)

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More fabric for an order

One thing I {LOVE} about making these bedding sets is the fact that I get to work with all these beautiful fabrics. I love to see the new fabrics come in my door, make something of this fabric and send out to someone to appreciate. Here is the bundle of fabrics I got today!

I got the Amy Butler Midwest Modern Fresh Poppies in Linen, Honeycomb in Grey. And this beautiful Waverley fabric that has embroidered dragonflies. This fabric will be used to make a crib skirt (the embroidered), two crib sheets (the poppies) and curtain panels (poppies with honeycomb fabric trim). Looking forward to seeing this come together. :)

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Happy Anniversary {froggyleggs} !!!

Thursday October 7th is the ONE year anniversary of my Etsy shop. 

Must Comment on the Anniversary wall post HERE  to be entered in for a giveaway!
Any repeat comments will be deleted.
Drawing will take place Friday 12:01 am EST.

Good Luck!

No room for error

I worked on the reversible bag tonight. Got the pockets cut out and the bag pieces. I stitched the sides and the bottoms up and was getting ready to put the bags together to sew them and realized that the humming bird fabric was upside down.

How frustrating this was! I guess I had not worked with many directional fabrics that really had to be directional, like in patterns such as these. It called for one yard, and that's what I bought. So there is definitely no room for error here, and it if course happened. :( I guess that will be one lesson learned and I'm hoping by making that mistake once, that it means I will hopefully not make again. So now, off to the online fabric store I go....


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