Since I’m taking the weekend off from the Weekender Bag, I’ll show you what I have been up to with my sewing machine. After wearing the same black skirt to church for the last 8 weeks I decided that my maternity wardrobe needed something new. Also, I find maternity shorts to be a foolish purchase considering that while I might be pregnant again someday, it might not be in the summer. Therefore, I’m not spending money on shorts I’m only going to wear for a couple of months. A couple of cute summer skirts will do the trick, and cost much less in the long run. Yesterday I was able to pick up some of the new Amy Butler Midwest Modern fabric for 1/2 price due to an anniversary sale at the Stitching Post. Mom told me a skirt out of polka dots would look terrible, but then admitted to me this morning at church that it looked a lot better than she imagined.
I promise, this hangs much better on me than it does the hanger. I would like to get this same pattern in the moss/martini colors and make curtains, but that’ll have to wait until I have $50 laying around to spend on fabric…..which will have to wait until I have a job….which has to wait until I pass my state boards and have this baby….yeah, it’s going to be a while.
Here are some baby projects I am working on, and hope to have completed before the baby is actually born! Again, I’m kind of a disaster and I firmly believe I’ll be finishing up the baby’s room while having my first contractions.
First, curtains. Curtains are kind of a priority to me right now because of where the crib sits in the room, it gets a lot of sunlight in the morning and I don’t want my child being blinded or baked because mommy didn’t care enough to at least re-hang the blinds she took down when she painted the room. I bought this fabric from Modern Basics, it’s rather expensive..but it is 110 inches wide, so you get a lot of fabric. Really, that’s my lame excuse for justifying spending that much on fabric. But it is REALLY cute.
See how cute that is?! I couldn’t possibly deny my child’s hippo nursery something this adorable. What I did deny my child’s nursery was the $270 hippo bedding that matches this fabric. Honestly, expensive crib bedding is another purchase I can’t justify. What’s the point? $270 for sheets your child will pee on? Gross.
Finally, a baby blanket. Perhaps this one won’t turn out as wonky as the last one. It’s Michael Miller Disco Dot – Citrus (which I had to hunt down on Ebay…and Ebay terrifies me, so if I’m shopping there I’m desperate) and some yellow minkee fabric I picked up locally. Truthfully, the minkee is so soft I would like to make myself a blanket and forget about the baby. Other people are going to buy me blankets anyways….
I love this fabric and it’s probably both a blessing and a shame that I didn’t discover it until after it had been discontinued. A blessing to my wallet but a shame to my fabric stash.