and we have lift-off

finally - a photo of the finished baby quilt for my nephew!  i finished it over a week ago but this and that conspired to slow me down.

i love how it turned out!  it's not perfectly perfect, but it is perfectly right for my brother and his family.  i used a lot of prints heather ross' out-of-print lightning bugs series - obtained at great difficulty on etsy, a tiny bit at a time.  the vw campers, gnomes and wiener dogs are family references and there are other favourites in there, including a few vintage pieces of 60's aqua with line-art flowers from my mom's stash.  the little raindrops from the hushabye collection are my little "hello from vancouver!" and the back is a solid piece of aqua dashes on cream from the girl friday collection.  ah, i love baby quilts and the ability to use a solid piece on the back.  i washed it a few times so it's nice and rumply-looking.  i love a worn-in looking quilt and it's so soft for a wee  one.

now, i just have to finish up the stack of pants, drooling kerchiefs and bibs that i want to send along with.  sew, sew, sew! 

one stitch at a time...

over naptime today (hallelujah - we've had a few rocky days) i was able to put the finishing touches on the crib quilt for my new nephew, david.  i'd  been putting in a few stitches along the binding whenever i could grab a second over the last few days, but i finally got a good stretch to finish.

so, the final shot?  tomorrow - it's tumbling around in the dryer now after a once-over in the washer.  i can't wait!

sneak peak: quilt for my first wee nephew

my brother and his beautiful wife welcomed a brand new little boy to their family almost a month ago.  they went the traditional route of not finding out the gender, which i give them props for.  it's got to be the world's best surprise, that anticipated announcement "it's a ---" in the delivery room, and i had always thought i could stand the suspense myself but i couldn't do it!

i had been waiting to find out who the little person was before starting on the arm's length list of homemade baby things i have in mind, not out of a blue=boy and pink=girl mandate, but to put a personal spin on things.  the moment i found out i ordered the fabrics and as they've come in i've been busy planning, cutting and getting ready.

first up, a simple crib-size quilt.  a lot of dots, some chevrons, japanese elephants and many lovely hard-to-find fabrics from heather ross' long out of print lightning bugs series.  here's a sneak peak at the colour scheme:

pink & lello

just a sneak peak at the back of the quilt i've been making for my lovely sister-in-law jasmine, who's expecting her first baby, a girl, sometime in february. cole couldn't resist scrambling all over it yesterday... the front is patchwork and the back is too, basically... i've kind of made it up as i go, using favourite fabrics in white, pink and yellow on the back, and pink, yellow, magenta and orange, cream and some blue too on the front, trying to make it girly without being too much so.