More Crafts!

Time for another crafty update for any of you who actually follow this blog. Recently some good college friends of ours had their first baby girl! Of course I had to make them something, but in my own "duh" pregnancy brain, I didn't think about it until last minute and really wanted to get it to them before their bundle of joy arrived. Thankfully I was able to get it all complete and sent out just in time! :-)

Now since they both went to Virginia Tech with us, of course I had to make something Hokie related. And I found this super cute fabric online! I ordered about 6 yards of the stuff, even though I don't know what to make with all of it yet....but I know it will be sold out by the time I want to use it for something else, and then I'll have to pay out the ass for it or just not be able to find it. Anyway, here is the cute Hokie blanket for them!

Front of the blanket

 

Close up of the fabric design, border detail, and white minky back.

And one on my VT rocking chair :-)

 

Another product I regularly make for friends having babies are burp cloths. I made them for my brother and sister-in-law and some other friends, so I was going to do the same for these friends too. Well, after searching high and low online, I discovered the cloth diapers I used that worked so well were no longer sold!! Oh no, what to do?!? I decided to get a little creative this go around. A while ago, I found a blog on Pinterest about making terry cloth burp cloths. (I don't even know if I kept the post or looked at the tutorial, I just remembered the fabric they used.) I thought this would be an excellent backing for my new adventure, but wanted something softer for the front, like flannel. Besides, flannel comes in many more cute patterns! I also had ordered some flat diapers online, and they were not thick at all, so I decided to use them as a middle layer, and kind of "quilt" all the layers together before doing the binding. Definitely a new adventure, and I hoped they would work as well as the ones I made before.

 

Now, normal baby patterns are cute and all, but babies like bright colors! It's entertaining for them, and not as dull for those trying to keep themselves spit-up free (at least as much as possible). So I decided to go a little wild with my fabric choices....basically since I could. :-)

 

All my fabrics lined up ready to go!

I LOVE this elephant print, it is so cute and fun, and brightly colored. It was really difficult to find a coordinating print though, so I went with a grey fleur des lys design that matched pretty well. And the backs got coordinating bright terry cloth!

 





 

 

And of course the binding colors matched as well. Gotta coordinate everything! :-) Before their baby girl arrived, my friend sent me a note saying how much she loved the prints and that they will now use the boring plain white diapers they were going to use for cleaning instead. Sounds like a good plan to me! A little more than a week after their daughter was born, she sent me another note saying how much they loved using them, that they are very absorbent and soft against their baby girl's face. I was so happy to hear they worked as well as I had hoped, and that they love using them! And her sister-in-law has asked me to make a set for some of her friends because she loves them just as much! Which I just think is so cool that someone has requested them! :-p Maybe one day it will become a side business!! Just gotta think of a cute brand name first....

 

That's it for now....currently working on more crafts for friends as well as myself, so hopefully more posts in the near future! :-)