Continued Puffiness

And here is the second puffy quilt I made for Juliet, I know you were waiting with bated breath...






Make your own with HoneyBear Lane's tutorial!

Puffiness for your Thursday

First, sorry for the long pause there on the blogging. I was temporarily without photo editing software and now have a huge backlog of posts ready to go out, so stay tuned! Recently I made a few baby shower gifts for my friend Juliet. She's headed to AZ with 2 puffy blankets and a fun tutu skirt in tow. Here is the first blanket, designed for a 'sorta hippie' mommy with a new baby girl!






As always, you can buy a tutorial to make your own puffy quilt from the Puffy Quilt inventor, HoneyBear Lane, here: TUTORIAL.

Another Puffy Quilt

Completed another puffy quilt, this time for Christine. I just can't get enough of these babies! I did a pink and light green to match the baby's room. the room also had some polka dot and butterfly decorations so I thought these fabrics worked really well. check it out:




As always, thanks to Christine for the request and giving me something to do while watching all the season finales of my fave shows! And mad props to the creator of the puffy quilt, HoneyBear Lane!

Jungle-Themed Baby Puff Quilt

My friend Leslie recently asked for another baby puff quilt and I was more than happy to oblige, I think they're my favorite thing to sew nowadays. The bedding was a compilation of animal prints with an orange pillow and there was also a green painting int he room. I chose to use just the giraffe print (Leslie's request, but also my favorite of the animal prints), an orange polka dot pattern, and a jungle leaf pattern in green. Here is the result:





As always, major props to Heidi of HoneyBear Lane for her puff quilt tutorial, which you can now purchase from her site! Let me know what you think of my jungle-themed design and thanks again for letting me make this, Leslie!

Enjoy!

Puffy Christmas!

It's going to be a very puffy Christmas for some very special little nuggets out there. Here are two puff quilt blankets I just completed using the Honeybear Lane tutorial:



And in case you missed them, two that I've made in the past:



Hands down the best baby gift ever. Fo serious.

Snuggle Down!

My Mom is going to a baby shower for her friend's new granddaughter (she was born early so she's already here) and asked me to make something for her to gift. I was told that the new mom was a little bit goth and was having a girl. So, I found this awesome jersey cotton fabric and decided to make a swaddler. Apparently babies love to be wrapped up like a burrito and cuddled. I used a suuuper soft fleece for the lining and no-snag Velcro to hold the flaps in their 'swaddle position'. I think it turned out extremely cute and I can't wait to make another. Hope it goes over well at the baby shower this weekend! Here are some pics:
Open

Fold flap one

Secure flap two

Let me know what you think!

Etsy Baby Shower

I recently signed up to participate in the Etsy Baby Shower. Basically a bunch of expecting moms sign up to receive gifts from Etsy stores that carry baby products. Then Etsy stores sign up to donate gifts to these moms. Each mom gets 4 gifts (usually from 4 different stores) and each Etsy shop can sign up to give as many gifts as they want. I signed up to give 4 gifts and I got 3 moms (one set of boy/girl twins!!!). Throughout the process the Etsy Baby Shower organizers promote the shops participating kind of as a thank you for donating. Here is a Treasury that I’ve been featured in:


Last night I started working on my gifts. I bought this adorable baby hat pattern about a month ago and I finally gave it a try. I think it turned out adorable! The sizes from the pattern are a little large for a newborn, so I’m going to try and scale down the pattern for my gifts. I’ll post updates as I make the gifts for the cuties I’ve been assigned. Here’s a pic of the first hat I made:



I used corduroy for the outside, jersey cotton for the lining, and a scrap of suede for the argyle patch. Let me know what you think!