Charlotte has been in our lives now for 16 days, I have been home for 13 of those days and I am ashamed to say I already have a big dose of cabin fever. I blame part of the fever on the weather, it has been rainy and cold in the great Va now for days. I blame the other part on that horrible pediatrician that told us we could not leave the house for one month. Either way I know that is my job to make sure that I do not go nuts and only I can control my attitude and this crazy fever that I have currently. The best way for me to avoid this is by crafting. I am not much of a crafter when it comes to holiday wreathes and potpourri arrangements, but I do love to sew. So I have lined up some projects that in my opinion are very needed in the world and will keep me busy!
The first project that I have in mind is for Benjamin, my too cute nephew who lives in Ohio. I think it is essential that he has a wonderfully handcrafted Easter present from his Auntie Mo and Uncle Jay. After scouring my sewing blogs I have found these...
from the longthread.com. I will post pictures as soon as they are finished. Hopefully they will be perfect for him even if he doesn’t understand the whole bowling thing. He can always chuck them across the house or use them as a weapon for the family dog...sorry Molly!
The second project that I have in mind has been in the back of my head floating around since around Christmas. We have a good family friend that has a beach quilt. I think it is the greatest idea to have a quilt that goes with you and your family every year to the beach. I love the idea of having year after year of family pictures at the beach on top of the same family quilt. I think it will be lovely to see the quilt age with the family over time. So with all those lovely sentiments and gushy feelings out of the way, Jay and I went shopping online (remember I can not yet leave the house, not even for my favorite fabric stores) to find a fabric pack (called a jelly roll in the sewing world) that we both loved and thought would be perfect for a family beach quilt. One of the first companies that we first searched was Moda, they are a great company with very diverse prints. I like that the fabrics do not look like they have been designed by some old bird but also do not look too modern. We settled on this.......
We thought that it would go perfectly with the quilt pattern that we had chosen from cluckclucksew.com
Now this project will be significantly more difficult and take up way more time than the cute bunnies for Benjamin, but I need to get working on it now if I want it complete by our Ocracoke trip in July which means I need to stop blogging!
-melissa