Finished sewing

Baby quilt has been finished & delivered just over a week ago. I ended up switched to a creamy-yellow for the back & binding instead of the pink butterfly. I felt like the pink clashed too much. I pulled an all-nighter the night before the baby shower, and was up probably a total of 36-38 hours(total from Friday morning to Saturday night) before I finally fell asleep. Tom has advised no more projects like that.

Here are some other things I've sewn in the past couple years that are baby related.

For a niece:

Thought this was a cute iron-on from Joann's

Another iron-on from Joann's. Pronounced "Me-so cute". Thought it fitting since her parent's like take-out.

Front

I couldn't help myself with this one. I did call first before I did it to make sure I wasn't going to offend my sister.

Front

Back. You'll notice the iron-on "Does this diaper make my butt look big?" is appropriately placed over where the diaper should sit on a baby this size.

For a nephew:

He was named after the '90's tv show "Parker Lewis can't lose"

Some iron-on's I got at Joann's. This side is the front

The back. I thought the iron-on was so funny that I got 1 blue & 1 pink(above)

Iron-on from Joann's. My brother & his wife loved it.

Iron-on from Joann's

They really enjoyed this too

Big (play) size blanket, front

Put a Thomas the Train flannel on the back

For another nephew:

Made some cute fabric blocks with foam inside. I made 6 since his first name was 5 letters, middle name is 6 letters, and last name is 7 letter.  All the first name matches up with same fabric background, same for the middle & last name.

Tried to throw in a "manly" fabric on the blocks. And what's more manly than tools?

Tried out this burp cloth idea after seeing my mom do some for another sister with a cloth-diaper

For a friend:

My first time at a quilt. I pre-bought the front panel and sewed in batting & a back myself.

For a friend's baby shower:

My first try at iron-on appliques for onesies. The J was for "Jack"

For one of the kid's cousins:

For our own home:

Matching church tops for all 3 boys

Brent's newborn tie onesie

Brent's 5 day old, 4th of July tie onesie

Brent's 5 day old, 4th of July tie onesie

Fabric ball

Kimono fabric shoes

Sewing Updates

1/3 of the quilt front done in 1 day. Not bad, I think, considering how busy & crazy it was today. Really enjoying how this is turning out so far, and so glad I ended up going with purple and not pink.

This is the top row. The middle row will be opposite, with 2 bears and one of the square/triangle blocks. And the bottom row will match the row I've already finished. Then add a quick border on the outer edges (1st do some machine sewn design on the outer border), add batting and the backing, and bind it.

Sewing

Feeling in a crafty mood again, so I'm just going with it. Will post later this week of stuff I've made for family & friends the past couple years--mostly baby related items.

Getting ready for another baby shower soon & taking a stab at my first appliqué quilt--I made another one a couple years ago but cheated by buying something pre-made and putting batting and a backing on it. Here's what I'm working on right now:

This is what the rest of the fabric looks like(pink butterflies fabric is for the back):

The pattern was purchased here: http://www.e-patternscentral.com/detail.html?prod_id=3668&cat_id=&criteria=quilt+for+baby

The finished product will look like this(except purple instead of blue) and no ruffle:

And here's the other thing I finished up for the baby shower(a soft book of the Little Mermaid--bought a kit years ago at Joann's and never got around to finishing for Ivy, who's no longer interested in it):

Andrew

Since Brent's been getting so much time mentioned on here, here's some equal face time for Drew. These were all taken this summer. I was cleaning out my camera card so we had room to take pictures on our Christmas trip. I've got some video from the swim lessons, but need to play with the computer a little to figure out how to get them to work.

Right after a water gun fight

Swimming lessons

We are crib-free

As of today, we are a crib-free home. The baby swing also moved out, less than 24 hours ago, and a big wooden shelving thing for toys--not shown--(since I've purged all the 'baby' toys that Brent hasn't used since early this year). We are going to keep the playpen for now, maybe by this time next year it'll be out too, and a new toddler-size toybox from Target has moved in. I love that it's just the right size for the amount of toys he had, and that there are NO hinges! Can't tell you how many times each of the older kids have gotten fingers pinched in toybox hinges.

Here's the before(just over a year ago, when we finished construction, carpet & painting and we had barely started moving Brent and his stuff in):

Here's what it looks like now:

Stop to smell the flowers

Brent thinks it's so funny to smell flowers. He is kind of sick today with a fever. I had him on my bed while I stopped in the bathroom for a minute. When I came out, I found him trying to smell the flowers on my blanket.

Sneak peek at our Christmas photo card

This year I made our family a Christmas photo card using Photoshop Elements. I had wanted to do this last year, but it didn't happen. These are the only recent family pictures we have with everyone. They're from a wedding reception we went to this summer, and they had a photo booth(so the bride & groom knew who was who in their guestbook). Collin loved it! May have to try this again next year, since it's so hard to get everyone to be in the picture especially with Brent literally on the run. You can click on the picture to make it bigger/more readable.

Here is another version of it, with ages added. Not sure which I'll be sending out.