Baby Delaney's Room {Our Home}

Delaney's room used to be her big brother Cole's room...he now shares a room with his big brother (I need to show you that still!) It also serves as our guest room, and my goal for this bedroom was to have it girly, without being TOO girly, and being something she can grow into without a major redo!

This room is filled with tons of projects and is now my favorite room in our house!

Welcome! 

This wreath was made by my friend and was put on our front door to announce Delaney's arrival. She orginally had a message written in chalk, but once I moved it inside, I used gold vinyl (cut with the Silhouette machine) to personalize. 

 The above picture is with the light on. I love the shadows this light fixture creates! 

{The light was purchased at Lowes on clearance for just under $50!!}

{A very full closet, it is so nice to have some pink and purple in our house!}

{her crib was painted with Miss Mustard Seeds Chalk Paint--Apron Strings and is the same crib used by her brothers who had used all of the edges to chew on...}

{this dog rocker was picked up at an awesome local marketplace, it reminds me of our dog Mason, and is holding our video monitor at the moment}

{a future play area}

{the dresser, updated with pink knobs, serves as a changing area}

{cute hangers I picked up at Gordmans display dresses I've made for Delaney, her hair bows, and random other things like her towel and tutu--that I also made but still haven't put on her!}

{The quilt made by her BeeMa}

{The quilt I made for her, the backing fabric is the color inspiration for the room; I also made the crib skirt and fitted sheet}

{Collage wall, put up last week when my mom was in town visiting}

{her personalized onesie inside a shadowbox--frames are from IKEA or Hobby Lobby}

{Painting the scallop wall was a fun project from last summer, I used freezer paper ironed onto the wall to make the scallops. I also painted the heart canvas. Inspiration.}

{The guest bed headboard was made for under $50 by my husband and I, and the quilt was made with the help of my mother in law.}

{This rack holds socks, hats, and tights...and you can see the changing pad cover I made peaking out.}

{my assistant}

Aren't you ready to come visit??

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Colorblock Quilt + Onesie {sewing + diy}

Right before we departed for vacation, (back in the first week of August) I decided aside from packing and getting on the road, I also should finish the quilt a friend had requested for her nephew who is due in early fall. The baby will have gear themed bedding, so his Aunt + I decided to use a robot + gear fabric theme, and this colorblock pattern (from Bijou Lovely)

I decided to quilt each block differently...

The center strip was a zig zag: 

All of the white border was quilted with a thin horizontal line. 

One block had multiple size circles:

The green block was the same across the small block + the large block.

And I absolutely loved the back of this quilt. The robot fabric is broken up with a strip that resembles a braid.

I hand embroidered a special message to the quilt's recipient in the braid:

This quilt is for a special little guy...his Uncle served with my husband in the Army + his Dad also served in the Army, my friend requested a special onesie to commemorate their service:

This was a fun project, probably should have waited until after vacation to finish, but I loved these fabrics and couldn't wait to see the finished quilt!

{Linked at Love Grows Wild}

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Ruffle Quilt {Tutorial}

This ruffle quilt is such a beautiful blend of simple and complex. It's girly. Sweet. Fun.

I adapted the quilt from Pink Suede Shoe, which is awesome. Check it out!

To begin, I selected my fabrics. I love using patterns on a solid, but that's just my preference. We had toyed with using a polka dot fabric instead of the white, but then thought it might be too busy. 

To make your own ruffle quilt, you will need:

• Ruffles: 5 pieces of 1/4 yard fabric.
• Quilt Top: 36" wide by 54" long, so 1.5 yards of fabric. 
• Bias Binding: 1/2 yard, cut into 2.5" strips
• Backing: 1.5 yards

Ruffles:

• cut (2) 2.5" strips the length of the fabric. 
• Sew the two strips together along the short seams to create one really long strip of fabric (approximately 80-88" long). 
• Before sewing the long strips seam together (to create a long tube) go over to Pink Suede Shoe's tutorial to easily turn the tubes. {GENIUS!} It's about a quarter down the page, but using up very tiny amounts of ribbon, there is a way of turning the tubes so easily, that it's lifechanging! Turn the fabric rightside out. 
• Arrange the tubes so the center seam runs down the center of the fabric. Iron. 
• Using the center seam as a guide, put the longest stitch setting on your sewing machine (or use a ruffle foot if you have one) and sew down the length of the fabric. 
• VERY carefully, create a ruffle pulling the bottom string on the ruffle. I found this was difficult to keep the string from breaking, so for some ruffles I actually sewed the seam where it broke in the opposite direction....and pulled that string. It was a pain, but seriously, the hardest part of this quilt is making the ruffles. 
• Create 5 ruffles. 

Assembling the Quilt: 

• Trim your quilt top fabric to 36" wide by 54" long. 
• Mark the center of the short side of the quilt (18") also mark where you would like your ruffles to begin. Using a fabric/invisible ink marker/chalk, mark a straight line where you would like the ruffles to begin. This will help to sew the ruffles on straight. 
• Pin the center of the ruffle to the center line of the quilt top. Try to hide the seam on the ruffle. Pin the entire ruffle down. Leave about 1/2" of extra fabric hanging off the sides. 
• Using a standard stitch (I think that's the 2.0 or 2.5 length on my machine) and sew the ruffle down. 

• Use the same method to carefully line up the edges of your new ruffle with the one you've just sewn down. Sew all of the ruffles on. 
• Carefully trim any lose threads from the ruffles. Trim the extra edges off the sides of the ruffles. 

Quilt: 

• Prepare your quilt for quilting, being sure to iron the backing fabric (gah, I did not do that well and had some extra tucks that I needed to repair after I was finished...) 
• Assemble your "quilt sandwich." I usually do this by pinning the various layers to the rug. Lay the backing, good side down. Pin the edges. Layer the batting on top. Smooth out. Pin down the edges. Top with the quilt top. Smooth out. Pin down. Make sure everything is laying very flat, tight, and smooth. Using safety pins, pin every 4-5" throughtout the top of the quilt, making sure to pin all three layers. 
• For this pattern, free motion quilt on tear drop shape, and then a second (larger or smaller depending) tear drop shape adjacent to the first. And then keep on going, careful not to sew over your safety pins. Try to have the loops come close to touching without actually overlapping. 

Linked at Gingersnap Crafts, the NY Melrose Family, & Someday Crafts

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Ruffle Quilt {Baby Girl}

One of my oldest friends is expecting her second child, a baby girl. I was so thrilled for her being that between us we have three boys...I was ecstatic when she asked me to help her pull together some bedding for her new little one.

Here's some of what I made for her:

And now for the unveiling: 

We started by narrowing down fabric. She ended up falling in love with the Willow line, My Mind's Eye for Riley Blake Designs. All of the fabric is a beautiful blend of pink, grey, and white. {Yes, please!} Aside from the Riley Blake Willow prints, we also used a solid Riley Blake in cotton candy, Pat Bravo's Oval Elements in Cotton Candy and Michael Miller's Dandy Damask in Bloom. All fabric was ordered from fabric.com or hawthorne threads. 

Here's a quick iPhone picture of all of the goods: the ruffled quilt (pre-binding), both fitted crib sheets, and the changing pad cover. The pillow cover is the only other item not pictured.

The pillow was the last item I made in the lot. I only knew the dimensions of her pillow form (the pillow that is inside the cover in these pictures is entirely too large and completely jammed into the cover!)

The pillow is reversible. It is quilted using scraps of fabric on one side, and a simple envelope enclosure with ribbon closures on the other:

 I made two fitted crib sheets (sorry for all the other "stuff" pictured):

I used pink polka dot fabric & the other sheet is pink medallions (also used in the quilt & the quilt backing.) I was certain to use extra elastic, so it was easy to put the sheets on, but tight enough to stay on the mattress. Changing crib sheets is hard enough, it stinks to have to fight with elastic that is too small!

Sheets are extremely easy to make. I used Prudent Baby's Fitted Crib Sheet Tutorial. 

I made a simple changing pad cover using pink fleece & damask. Again, I used prudent baby's tutorial. I also added a few rosette flowers, they are just pinned on and can be removed for inevitable washing.

 (sorry for the funny lighting/iPhone picture) but isn't it so cute?

And the final item, which is my new favorite quilt, is the ruffle quilt:

Simple as can be, the ruffle quilt is only 5 ruffles the length of the quilt. The ruffles are sewn onto solid white fabric, and bound with solid white binding. I would never in a million years have thought to bind a quilt in white, but my mother in law made the suggestion and it completely made sense. I love the way it finishes the quilt. It is seriously the sweetest thing ever! Right?!

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