I love making crib sheets. They’re fast and easy, and they’re so cute.
The fabric is a flannel from Marmalade by Bonnie and Camille for Moda. I love flannel for crib sheets – there’s no abrupt transfer from nice warm arms to cold sheets with flannel sheets! This particular flannel is amazing. It’s sooooo soft, and it washed so nicely. I love it.
K seems to really like the pattern, and she pets it each night while she falls asleep. Anything that makes bedtime less of a fight makes me happy!
I bought a ruffler foot a year or so ago, but I never took it out of the box. Well, actually I took it out of the box long enough to look at it, get completely intimidated, and go back to dealing with broken gathering threads and ruffling by hand.
Scary, right?
The mountain of chiffon I received the other day was begging to be ruffled, though, and there was no way I was hand-gathering yards and yards of fabric.
I should have tried this method the day I got the foot. In fact, I should have bought the foot the first time I needed to make ruffles.
It is amazing.
Five yards of ruffles in no time at all.
I am in love.
I’m linking up with the Let’s Get Acquainted link up hosted at Simply Miss Luella this week!
that seam allowances are important.
I had planned to make Easter basket linings today. Actually, I had planned to make Easter basket linings a month ago, but making basket linings hasn’t sounded very exciting, so I’ve been putting it off.
Well, it’s going to be put off a little longer because A) after measuring more carefully, I don’t actually have enough fabric, B) I forgot to add seam allowances to the measurements for my muslin mock-up, and I don’t feel like re-cutting everything right now considering that I don’t have enough fabric to do the real things yet, and C) K’s birthday party is in less than two months! It’s party planning time!
Speaking of K’s birthday party…look what just showed up at my door:
Miles and miles of pretty pink chiffon.
I am a happy girl today (even if our Easter baskets won’t have linings by Easter).
I’m loving the Skill Builder BOM. I’m behind on the quilting, but I’m caught up on the piecing.
I’m seriously missing the sun right now, and the sea glass palette of this quilt reminds me of summer days on the beach.
The rest of the blocks:
I haven’t worked up the guts to do the free motion quilting yet. I did FMQ on the first quilt I ever made, and while it was fun, there are lots of errors and tension issues. I’m excited to get to practice and improve…but I’m intimidated, too!
I’m linking up with Work in Progress Wednesday at Freshly Pieced!
March has already been more productive than February. I’ve finished multiple (okay, two) projects. One of them – curtains for the nursery – has to wait because K is sleeping.
A loooong time ago, I made a camera strap cover for Michelle. She recently mentioned wanting a new one with a pocket for the lens cap, and I was happy to do it. I love quick projects.
It’s on the way to her now, but I’m going to go ahead and post a picture anyway. Michelle, if you’re reading and want to be surprised, you should stop now.
The finished product:
Enjoy!
So, Jen, it’s March.
Yeah. I noticed.
Um, you failed to post anything in February. How’d that February goal go?
It might be best not to talk about that.
Well, how did February go in general?
I think we should maybe just pretend the February didn’t happen. The first few days were fine…I even cut the fabric for the January Skill Builder BOM blocks.
Then K stopped sleeping. I mean, she really stopped sleeping. Not, like, she only slept for a few hours at a time. Like she only slept for a few minutes at a time, and only if I was holding her.
That happened for a few days, and then she went to sleep one night and woke up vomiting profusely, lethargic, and with a body temperature of 94.4. Thankfully, although it felt like it lasted forever, she snapped out of it and her temperature rose quickly. That was the start of the stomach bug from hell, which hit K hard for a couple of days and then hit me hard for a few more days. Then M got a cold, but it was just a cold, so no big deal.
We were all healthy for a whole 4 days near the middle of the month, during which time I pieced the January and February BOM blocks.
(I know, I know…you have to put up with this pathetic post, and all you get is one crappy cell phone picture of one block…better pictures of all of the blocks are coming…)
The healthy streak ended with K spiking low fevers overnight and pitching a fit if she was flat on her back. A trip to the pediatrician confirmed that I am a hypochondriac (just the start of a cold), but at least they did K’s 9-month visit while we were there. Of course, the cold has turned out to be sent from Voldemort to destroy us or something because it’s been going on for forever, and of course I have it, too. I can’t get a cold without it turning into a raging sinus infection, so that’s been fun.
Cold and flu season is almost over, right?
Wow, so you really only managed to piece 4 blocks in an entire month, AND you only have a crappy cell phone picture of one of them?
Yes. I also have an instagram picture of that one block, but that’s the best I can do. I basically spent February taking care of a sick baby, being sick, trying not to get too far behind at work, and wishing I could just go to sleep for a a few uninterrupted hours (preferably while being able to breathe through my nose, but beggars can’t be choosers).
March will be better. I hope.
This is my first official month in A Lovely Year of Finishes. I’m excited for the motivation to meet some goals, although my goals are smaller than those of a lot of the other participants. Baby steps, though, right? And I promise to have some big goals in the coming months!
Anyway. February’s goal is to catch up and stay caught up on the Skill Builder BOM at Pile of Fabric. My fabric didn’t get here until last week (don’t worry, I bought it before starting my fabric buying freeze), so I haven’t even started January’s blocks.
This quilt is a quilt-as-you-go quilt, and I’m really excited about getting to practice free motion quilting on smaller pieces so I don’t have to fight the drag of a full-sized quilt. I’m excited about my fabric, too:
So, to recap: February’s goal is to cut/piece/baste/quilt the BOM blocks for January and February – that’s 4 blocks total.
I’m linking up to Fiber of All Sorts and Plum and June.
7:00 pm is a perfectly acceptable bedtime for an adult, right?
Yep, the Sew Fishy household has caught another round of the daycare plague. How many variations of the common cold virus are there, and how is it possible for us to catch every single one of them? K has been doing pretty well with them – a fever on the first day, and then a runny nose for a while. Meanwhile, M and I feel like we are dying a slow painful death.
The weekend wasn’t very productive.
I do, however, have fabric picked for the Skill Builder BOM, so I will hopefully be posting about that soon.
The past week has been pretty low on sewing. We had company over the weekend, and that meant clearing off the dining room table. No cutting space = no sewing.
(I’m not sure what I’m going to do now that we’re trying to eat dinner at the table each night, either…right now I’m shoving everything to one side, but this isn’t going to fly for much longer. Finishing the basement may be moving up on the priority list.)
Tonight, though, I finally made some progress on my scrappy tripalong quilt top. All of the cutting is done, and another hour at the sewing machine should finish off the rest of the blocks.
I decided to make the quilt five blocks by five blocks (so 60″x60″), which is a little bigger than I said in the previous post. I really wanted a square, though. I was toying with going one block bigger all the way around, but I’d have to add in new fabrics for that, and I kind of just want to finish this one.
With a little luck, this top will be done tomorrow!
I’m linking up with the Let’s Get Acquainted link up hosted at Fabric Mutt this week and Work in Progress Wednesday at Freshly Pieced!
