Kristi CLOSE YOUR EYES!!!

 This post is going to display my many projects for my bff Kristi who just had her third little cutie. It was a girl and of course they had to torture me with not knowing the gender until she was born. So as soon as I got the text I ran out to the store to pick up material for her gifts.

I have been making rag quilts for a year now and have gotten the hang of it and felt it was a good step into piecing a quilt. I want to be a quilter but it scares me to death. Mostly because I HATE pinning for hours. So this is my first real pieced quilt for little Kiley. I went ahead and picked out 6 materials (4 I had on hand thanks and then I picked up two new printed ones to make it complete) and cut out 49 7" squares. I put them into this design and then stacked them into rows and labeled each row with a piece of paper so I would not mess up my order. 

 Nice isn't it I was proud. 

I used my open sewing time during spring break to sew together each row of 7 and then put them all together. And after I finished the front i realized it needed a super perfect back. So I headed to my new favorite place Joann's and got HOT PINK super soft fabric for the back. But up and sewed a crazy cozy binding and put it all together. And for the quilting aspect i did not have a free form foot like I wanted yet to I simply sewed on the the edges of the squares which turned out perfect. You can't see the stitch at all on the front and it made a great quilted pattern on the back which i like. Simple but nice. Oh it is so cozy.... so much so that I am making the girls their own very soon! 

Now on to project number 2. 

Burp cloths

I have seen there are about 4 billion ways to make these and I couldn't decide for a while which way I wanted to go. So i decided to do a mixed middle with all my favorite fabric. Here are a few just for fun. 

Here are a few to go with the quilt.

And here are my favorite to go with project number 3 the nursing cover.

I debated on fabric for a long time. And since I ALWAYS play it safe i thought i would be daring for once. I just hope Kristi likes it. I know she is like me and keeps it simple but this is just so dang girly I love it to pieces. I of course did not have a computer at the time so I had to use my phone to follow the step by step instructions. That was fun. Here is the pattern i used and it turn out just like I hoped. And it really was simple. If you can sew a straight line you can make this no problem. plus it is a GREAT and cheap gift for someone. And being a mother who has nursed and had her hooters exposed to the world thanks to falling blankets, I will attest that no mother can have too many. I am going to have like 4 or 5 if I ever get another baby around here.