Crib Bumper, Part 1

For the crib bumper I have decided to do solid pieces on the inside and print on the outside and piping.  The solid seemed a little too plain so I decided to embroider a little bit on each of the six panels.  Hopefully I can get the piping cranked out this week so I can start sewing it all together!

I started with her name, I did two panels of this and they will go at the head and foot of the crib.

I really love how this cute little bear turned out!
 

Sweet little raccoon

Fox

And a cute little owl

Rory's Quilt

I'm making all the bedding from scratch for baby Rory's crib.  I already did the chevron blanket, but am more planning on using that for tummy time since the chenille will be so stimulating for her little fingers.  Using fabrics from Riley Blake for the front and minky for the back, I went ahead and did a quilt I had seen on Pinterest and coveted for months.

The top pieced together with big brother testing it for durability and softness

I used Warm & Natural cotton batting and 505 to keep my sandwich together because I hate pinning!

All quilted and squared off

With the aqua dot binding, which I LOVE!

The yellow looks prettier in the daylight

Rory's Chenille

Here's my second go at faux-chenille!  This one is for MY baby.  For the back I used Riley Blake Medium Chevron in Aqua.  I contemplated doing the chevron cut chenille, but these stripes are 3/4 inch apart and I honestly do not like the look of chenille that is more than 1/2 inch apart.  It gets stringy and there are bigger gaps between the rows.  So much snugglier when they're smooshed together!  Regardless, the print is still on a convenient diagonal, so I used the right side of every other chevron to line myself up straight again every third row.

For the flannel, I used 2 pieces of turquoise flannel and 2 pieces of white flannel from Jo-Ann.  This time I didn't use basting spray because last time my cutter got so gummed up, so I just pinned instead.  I had a LOT of shifting.  I think the way I will go next time is to spray all of the flannel together and pin that to the fabric, that way the foot of the cutter never actually touches the glue, but all of those layers are easier to control since they've effectively been turned into 2 layers.

Wide view - this was 42' X 42'

Front and back both visible

So cuddly!!!