butterfly mobile

Jane isn't getting her own room for a bit. She is going to sleep in our room for the first few months. I think Lills stayed with us for 5 months and then she got the boot. Although she was sleeping through the night about 11 weeks, we just liked her near us. We used to wake up all the time to make sure Lilly was still breathing. I am guessing Jane might get the boot a bit earlier, that allure and nervousness of being first time parents might be gone. Waking up to all those sweet baby sleeping sounds in the night this time around might not be so sweet! Poor Jane, no room for now and already talking about her moving out! But she has an area carved out of our room for her stuff. Her changing table and clothes will be in this corner and she has a butterfly mobile to gaze at while getting her diapers changed. So I think she has it pretty good!





I used some of the same fabrics in her much anticipated Grammie quilt and added in a few others that seemed to go. I followed this tutorial but after trying to match up two butterflies and then iron them, I got smart and ironed the two fabrics together first before cutting once. Then I used my sewing machine to stitch down the group of them.





At first I liked the look of the hoop hanging slanted off the hanger (like in the tutorial) but I didn't like how the butterflies didn't have as much room as when the hoop was centered or maybe because I wrapped the hoop in muslin? So I might rehang the hoop off of the hanger but for now I am lazy so it will stay. But I do think that brick wall might be in need of some sort of decoration? perhaps a wall hanging?



ps. i keep getting these spam comments that make no sense and are basically directing to some not so nice websites, how can I stop this? I keep deleting them as they come in but that is getting really old. ideas?

pss. i watched Julie & Julia the other night. I so wanted to cook like crazy after that movie, kinda like the need for wine after Sideways, or chocolate after Chocolat. After the movie I checked out the Julie/Julia project blog, I wonder how many blogs there were in 2002 and now in 2010? I wonder what that blog would be like today, pretty pictures or no? She seemed to have been quite the entertaining writer, well I imagine you would have to be to get a book deal!

baby Jane's blanket

a knitted comfy blanket for this baby in my belly. 6 weeks until we can wrap her up in it!





Pattern: baby love diagonal baby blanket, I went a few increases beyond the pattern to make it a bit bigger (rav notes)

Yarn: lionbrand cotton-ease in maize, azalea, and stone

Size: 39" x 39"





Her quilt made by Grammie is done but we won't have a chance to see that one until we see Jane herself. I can't wait to see both! August 22nd is sure coming fast this year!

matching ruffles

I bought a couple yards of jersey knit fabric back in February thinking they would make great maternity skirts and pants. I saw this cute skirt on Cluck Cluck Sew and was so happy I was dragging my feet sewing up the jersey. Also, Lills was really into dresses and skirts and if they had pockets well that just made her day. So I asked her which material she would like and if she wanted me to make her a dress with pockets. She picked the coral fabric and I spent the weekend sewing a new skirt for me and a dress with pockets for her. (Truth be told, I made my skirt first, is that really selfish of me or what?) But Lills loved the ruffle on my skirt so I added that to her dress. Much to my surprise she loved her dress right away and when I tried it on her she didn't want to take it off even though the straps were way to long and the top of her dress was not covering up her chest, it looked more like a high skirt with suspenders. She didn't care and spent the rest of the day happily filling her pockets and twirling. When she went to bed, I fixed the straps and she has yet to wear it again! I can't get the sucker on her now, it has been a month but I will keep trying! Oh well! I didn't use a pattern for her dress, I measured her chest and then 2x the chest width for the skirt so it had proper twirling abilities.




As for my skirt, I LOVE it! It is so cool and comfy to wear. I did a knit stretchy band for the waist but it is a bit too big and skirt slips down or I have to wear it super high on the Jane belly so I might open it up and throw some elastic in it but other than that I just love it and that ruffle. Such a good idea to give the skirt something fun.



Last weekend, I hit up Joann's 4th of July sale and got some fun McCall patterns for Lills, Jane, and myself. Have you seen the movie Away We Go? Such a good movie and I loved all her maternity sun dresses (here is one and this one, not great pictures but you get the idea). Hopefully, I will get some fabric and make myself some dresses soon, only 7ish weeks left and my wardrobe is getting a tad thin and depressing.