Promises, promises

I know there is nobody out there who is really going to hold me to my promised increase in blog posts but I'm not doing a great job at what I started this blog for, which is: to keep track of projects. So without further ado, I give you some recent projects.


A baby. "What?! You made another one?" "Why yes, yes I did." I'm particularly proud of the cheeks.


Striped bathroom walls. "What?! MORE stripes?". "Why yes, I like stripes, almost as much as I like babies."




...and a quilt. And yes, I have made this quilt before, it was inspired by my friend who just had her FIFTH BOY. (She's a pioneer woman, that one.)

Maybe, just maybe, I will have some more projects photographed by the next time I sit down to feed a baby...

Preview of things to come...

It's odd to say but sometimes I like the garbage almost as much as the quilt...

There has actually been quite a bit of sewing going on around here, just not much blogging. Hopefully that will change now thanks to blogpress and instagram, and the fact that all top secret projects have now been safely gifted. Let's start with what was gifted to me! My mom made me this super fantabulous linen pen roll.


All these gorgeous pens are inspiring me to finally do a little journeling.


Mmmmmm.

burp cloths

I've actually been sewing quite a bit lately but most of it is top secret. But I did pick up some of Lotta Jansdotter's new Echo line this week and had to make something out of it asap. It is so flippin' awesome. And so we have here a lifetime supply of burp cloths...I'm actualy keeping some of these ones...they might motivate me to fold them nicely to stack on the shelf.

And of course there are some in the shop.

geese for my niece

I love having any excuse to make a new baby quilt. These are flying geese for my new niece Lucy.

One more project made entirely from the stash! Alright, almost. I had the whole thing pieced and then found that backing fabric and it was such a perfect match I couldn't pass it up. Enjoy Lucy!!

like STRIPES much?

I've been on the prowl for awesome shower curtains for...oh...years. Not finding much I decided to take matters into my own hands. (Tangent: note the apple green walls. I maybe should have drawn the line at shower curtain but ended up taking far more into my own hands. It's a little bit startling but I really really love it!)

I don't know if these actually qualify as awesome but they do not have rubber ducks, beach scenes, or purple and taupe floral motifs on them. Nor did they cost hundreds of dollars at anthropologie, where awesome reigns, but not for the common man's budget.

My favorite is the curtains for the dining room. I'm a really really rotten photographer but just take my word for it, these are a vast step up from the drop cloths I had hanging there before.

I confess I even had plans (and fabric) for striped curtains in one of the kids' rooms but realized things were getting a little out of hand in the stripe department.

favorite

I don't know why I love this quilt so much. It may be because it is completely made from scraps...(I'd like to say it made a dent in my scrap stash but no suck luck)...

It might be because it's really really bright...and as much as I love muted colors and neutral tones when OTHER people use them, I always find myself right back to BRIGHT. (That's why I'm having a really hard time getting my house painted. I know in my heart that apple green is NOT a good thing for living room walls and yet...that is the paint chip I keep picking up.)

There's hot pink chenille on the back...sigh. I do love hot pink chenille.

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