A sweet nursery

Another great friend from college had her first child a few years ago(well more than 4). She is a very sentimental person, and memories and memorabilia mean a lot to her. When she and her sister were little, her grandmother sewed their bedding sets. They had the cutest matching twin bed sets with curtains. She wanted me to use some of the twin bed sets for her daughter's nursery. Since there were two twin bed sets, she could save one, and I could cut up the other. I have to tell you, I was extremely nervous about cutting up this set. Her grandmother was a great seemstress. The sets were very well made. We bought other fabric in addition, and I simply added a border onto the valance to incorporate all of the new fabrics. I don't think I have a picture of the finished window treatments. Maybe she will be awesome and will be able to find one. She did recently move, and have a new baby. So we might have to cut her some slack.This is not her nursery, but my daughter's second room. I was just trying out the set in my daughter's crib. The crib skirt was made out of the fabric from her childhood room. I love the big pink ribbons.Sorry about the quality of these photos; not sure what happened there. On this last photo notice the eyelet detail at the top of the bumper. This was my favorite part of it all. We were in love when we found this detail to put in it. I know there was a quilt as well. Maybe we will see photos of that also. I still have squares from it, in my sewing cabinet, where I got a little too excited and cut and sewed to many.

and more animal prints

One of my best friends from college was having her first child a few years ago. She asked me to sew her nursery bedding set. She has wonderful style and wanted something fun and bold. What better than animal print? This was a long distance consult, so it was mostly done over the phone. I was able to deliver the set to her in person at her baby shower though.Aren't the animal touches she did in the room great? The artwork over the crib was an extremely creative idea. For her baby shower invitations, I got a set of animal stamps. We stamped them, and used watercolor pencils to color them in. She used these stamps to blow up and create large prints of the animals. I am forgetting some of the details, but she may have painted them in some more herself. She is quite crafty and artistic herself. These basket liners were an idea we had at the end using the leftover fabric we had. She had a book theme for her shower and as it turns out her daughter LOVES to read/look at books.So these were perfect. I am sure they held baby supplies as well.There was a quilt I made for her as well. I will see if we can find a photo of that one, and add it to the post later.
I might like the valance the best. I love the brown, pink, and zebra print all mixed together. I remember most working hard to line those zebra print stripes up in the pleats in the middle.

Nursery Bedding Set (another)

My good friend who used to be my neighbor was having her first child. She loved the nursery rhyme toile fabric and was determined to use in her nursery bedding. So we coordinated some colorful fabrics that wouldn't be over the top pink. Here is the bumper and quilt with some cute children testing it out(mine, ha ha.)
Even though she helped design it all, I packaged it all up for her to open at her baby shower. I just love how striking the quilt turned out. I ended up making a window treatment, bench seat cushion, and reupholstered cushions for a glider( reupholstering is not my best skill.) I will stick to other sewing in the future.

My latest Nursery Project

No, this is or was not a nursery for me. Unfortunately or fortunately, however you want to look at it, we are finished with nurseries in this house. This was for a sister of a friend of a friend. She knew exactly what she wanted. She found an inspirational bedding set, that was way to expensive for her. So we shopped together and designed hers. We bought to much fabric, so she got a pillow, diaper stacker, and quilt in addition to the curtains, skirt and bumper she ordered. I do not have photos of all of it. Here are the photos for most of the project.

Here is the bumper all stretched out in my messy kitchen(maybe I should practice my photography skills, ha ha)A close up of the really fun monogram, and you can see the ribbons we used to tie the bumper on.
The quilt that was made with the left-over fabric. I used to be of the belief that quilts were a waste because babies could not have them in their cribs. So I did not make nursery quilts for either of my children. Now I strongly believe in them. They are fun to use around the house for the baby to play on. More importantly they are an awesome keepsake for you to have when you pack up the nursery set. So my piece of advice on this subject is to include all pieces of fabric and all elements of the nursery in this keepsake.(oh look at that, you even get a cute foot of one of my puppies).

The diaper stacker. I saw basic instructions online for how to make one. I changed it up a bit, and made one that worked for me. Super easy to make, and I was able to use scraps and piece together different parts of the fabric. She really wanted to have one in the nursery. I hope she got a lot of use out of it. (It fits over a standard child/baby hanger)

Any glider would not be complete with out a little pillow to show off the fun fabric and help the small of your back during those nighttime feeding. This pillow could really go anywhere around the house though.

You can kind of see in the background of this picture all of the rest of the nursery set that is all packaged up and ready to give to the client. This was an awesome set and design. I really hope she liked it, and it looked cute in her house.