Rag Quilt

Well ladies, I have been in a crafty mood lately and once I started with LuLu's valance I couldn't stop. I found this super cute rag quilt tutorial from Shelly's delicious links and thought it was something I could do and guess what--I did! I was so nervous. It asked me to do things like sew a diagonal line, (how on earth was I going to keep that straight), make a chain of squares, (huh?) and all sorts of other highly complicated tasks. But, the directions had pictures and I just did a little at a time and before I knew it I was sewing my very own rag quilt and it turned out so soft, so cute, and so comfy. I think LuLu will love it.

Nursery Valance

Girls . . .

I am so unbelievably, stinkin' proud of myself. Last night I was home alone with the girls (Sadie and one active baby in my belly) while Brandt and Eddy went to the Father and Son's camp out. I had three glorious hours all to myself to make the cutest nursery valance you ever did see. I am so proud of myself because I didn't have to call Hayley once and I even got the stitches straight. I'm almost as proud of the back of the curtain as I am the front. You will have to see this in person to see all the cute colors because it is almost impossible to take a good picture of it whilst it hangs in the window, but here you go, my very first sewing project. Ta-Dah!

jungle animal mobile

I have finally finished it...
it only took me nine months!

I got this idea to create my own mobile from another
person's blog.

Pros: completely customizable, very cute,
and very inexpensive (I think I spent $6 in materials)!

Cons: super time consuming, next time I won't make
it quite as detailed as this.

This was my inspiration for my animals,
I just traced the stickers and then enlarged them
to make my own pattern. The animals are made
from felt and embroidery floss, but you can use
whatever works for you. The round part is
just the inside of a wooden embroidery hoop that
I tied strips of green flannel to.
All in all I'm quite pleased with how it turned out,
just wish I would've finished it a lot sooner!