Saturday, January 29, 2011

"big girl" bed









Anja's last sleep in her crib.
 She just turned 2 a couple of days ago and pretty soon her little sister is going to need her crib. I started making this quilt for Anja's bed before the new baby arrived. I finally got around to finishing it last week. I've only made a few small quilts before and have never taken a quilting class, so I kept the quilt pretty basic. I just used ties to hold all the layers together. I was afraid that if I tried sewing through all the layers the fabric would bunch up and I'd ruin the quilt. I actually ended up liking the look of the ties more than I thought I would. I think it goes with the shabby chic look and it was really fast. I had quite a bit of the pink & green dot fabric left over from when I decorated Buzzby's nursery, so I just added to that with fabric I found at the quilting store "Earthly Goods" in Edmonton. I didn't want to change the colours of her nursery so it worked out well that I was able to use leftover fabric. (The headboard is from my bedroom set when I was a kid.)
Now to get her to loose that soother...

1 comment:

  1. Yay for Anja - a big girl bed! That quilt looks great! Is January quilting month? One of my other sister-in-laws is making a quilt for another niece!

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