Bedding for Baby

A few weeks ago, I found this quilt online and fell in love, hard and fast. 

$145?! For real?

For a baby quilt.

 

Fine then, I will make my own. 

I hit the local fabric stores, but none of the color options felt quite right. 

The coral pink and avocado green were missing. DIY was out. :( 

Back to buying it. 

I waited watched and waited more until the etsy shop had a flash sale and it was 30%off.

By the time I tried to check out an hour after the sale had begun, the quilt was sold out and discontinued. Oooh I was so mad!

So back to making my own. 

For the record, I have no clue what I'm doing, but it's going well. 

Carly and Kasey helped me put together a color palate and I ordered fabric online. 

The prints are for pillows, bumper, changing pad cover, etc. 

I then enlisted the help of one of my quilting goddess friends, Eunice for templates and wisdom.  She came over for an hour today, showed me some sewing tips and helped me get started by setting up a guide on my machine and sharpening my rotary cutter. 

I love Eunice because she is a true teacher. She tells me tips and instructs on correct methods for cutting and sewing (stuff I've always faked my way through before) and patiently corrects things I'm doing wrong or inefficiently, but she let me do the work. I'm thankful for her gift to teach because it gave me the confidence that I could do this totally on my own. 

She left once I got going and so far, so good! Some of the colors in my photos look a little "off" but in real life they're great together. 

Look how much I accomplished in just a couple of hours today, and I haven't even used any curse words! Here's to a successful day two. The aqua herringbone will be the back, and I think I'll make bias tape binding with coral pink. 

The best part, I read the fine print on the description of the original inspiration quilt and it is in fact, not a quilt at all! The triangles are a solid piece of printed fabric, and it's just top stitched in horizontal stripes across the top. $145 for two solid pieces of cotton fabric slapped together?! So glad I decided/had to make my own after all. I like the colors better, it's more personal, and a true labor of love to create something special for baby girl Willy. 

It isn't perfect, and I'm ok with that.