Safari Mobile

Baby gifts have got to be my all time favorite thing to make. There is just nothing as fun as creating things for new little people. I might go a bit overboard. But I was so excited about Parker I couldn't help myself...  

Parkers room is safari themed - I will have to find out if I can show you pictures of his room- its adorable!

These were supposed to be about 1/2 the size they ended up being.... that's what happened when you make the smallest animal first and want them all to be to scale. 

and by scale I mean the giraffe and elephant are babies and the rest are adults...

They are each needle felted from wool roving. The giraffe was around maybe 7 inches.  

I kind of want to keep every mobile I make. But I am pretty sure matt would put his foot down... and it would be sad if Parker didn't have a mobile! 

Wallygator

Here's my prototype for an alligator version of the fish. 

 He has a zipper for a mouth. 

He is fully lined and has pointy little teeth. 

 His stuffed legs have claws 

And he can eat a ridiculous amount of toys. 

Since Jennifer asked I will probably try to do a tutorial for him ( not that I make any promises to complete one before her kids graduate ...college...) He is actually a really fun and simple sew once the pattern was created.... until then he made my brain hurt. 

Recess Animals

You might remember in March I showed a custom order for bumpers that I made to match a quilt I had in my shop. Well that customers sister contacted me to work on a custom baby present - two patch work animals to match the bedding. 

 She wanted it to match the silhouette on the quilt as closely as possible.

The patchwork is 2" squares - the giraffe is about 18 inches tall. 

The back is a super soft minky.

Just for fun little wool felt hearts were added

I LOVE the way these turned out. This was my first attempt at a stuffed animal so I wasn't really sure what to expect. Custom orders are really the most fun things I would never come up with these projects on my own!

Micah's 'big boy' Quilt

Remember this fabric? Well I finally had a yard of each design printed... let's not talk about how long ago! It took me a while but I finally decided I had to use it in a quilt... and since the time is fast approaching for Micah to move into a bigger bed twin seemed like a good way to go. So I started designing... because 3 yards doesn't go far in a twin size quilt. 

My original design was this--

Mom was kind enough to help me execute it (1 yard meant slight dimension changes on the blocks) and it turned out like this--

I kind of love it a LOT. It's quilted in variegated pearl cotton. 

Hopefully I will be showing it to you on his bed soon. Which we already ordered from JCPenneys at the beginning of December on crazy ridiculous clearance... it was exactly the style I had been looking for.  Now we just need to get all of the current guest bedroom furniture relocated to new homes...  We are officially half way through now so less then 20 weeks to get everything ready!

Giraffe Quilt

Wait there's two?! Yes I am on a role... Another crib quilt size 35"x 28" 

I LOVE this one (the elephant one is everyone else's favorite) The elephant and giraffe are actually graphics from the fabric that I made that I still haven't ordered...

The front is linen and Recess by American Jane for Moda and the back is some of the new Denyse Schmidt line. 

It's also in the shop

elephant baby quilt and OCD-ness towards bobbins...

I have been having the urge to make a quilt so I finally gave in ---

It's baby quilt size 35"x24" 

And it's now in my shop.

Here's Micah modeling 

When Heather posted about needing bobbin storage it reminded me how unhappy I am with the mess of thread currently in my sewing box so I did some goggling and found this idea and decided to try it out

It's fantastic!

 I actually bought 3/8 tubing because they were out of 1/2 and to me the 5/8 looked too large. It was only $.38 per foot and out of the 1 foot I cut about 40 rings... super cheap and awesome... it's sad how happy this makes me!

Did you think I would give up on the deer head?

Back on the inspiration board I posted for the nursery I had a deer head that zgalleries carries, unfortunately when I saw it in person the fantastic price showed in the quality of the item.... total let down (I love zgalleries though so no hard feelings)
I went through a bunch of ideas on how to make one and couldn't find a solution that I was sure I would be happy with -then I saw this nursery post and knew that was it. She actually got hers from here (there are none currently for sale). I of course decided to just make mine...
I finally sat down and got started today. I was amazed it didn't take me long I started working on it this morning and finished up this evening. That included a bunch of breaks and a trip out to Michael's to get the things I didn't have on hand.... I wish all projects went this quickly...and smoothly! So the pictures aren't the best but I just had to share tonight so you'll have to deal until later. It isn't even hanging in the nursery so the walls are totally the wrong color- I think she will look a lot better on a light blue wall!
It is in fact a doe... Uber says he doesn't mind so I am not going to worry about it! I probably could have added antlers but I really liked it without them!

She's a little bit snotty in expression but that just makes me laugh...

Her body is linen (big surprise) and the inside of her ears are a duponi silk. Almost everything on her is stuff I already had on hand I only spent $15 to make her. The most expensive thing was her nose... I went ahead and used a leather scrap... I probably should have just used felt but oh well!

Her eyelashes crack me up...

The plaque is Gun Metal Gray.

I LOVE ribbon... I hope it doesn't make it look too girly I just could not pass up the beautiful peacock blue ribbon when I saw it. All of the ribbon reminds me of a military uniform

I am really excited about the way it turned out. I hadn't made a stuffed animal before and was a little nervous about totally making up the pattern but I have to say it was super simple.

Hopefully I will be able to show you more of the nursery in the next month... no promises though... it's kind of boring at this point I have a lot of things done but not enough to be interesting. I will continue to show you the projects I do complete which will start giving you sneak peaks at different parts of the room...