Turkey Tracks: November 8, 2010
New-Baby-Coming Projects
We have a new granddaughter coming in early December. We might even be in Charleston, SC, when she arrives.
Anyway, when her mother Corinne and my son Bryan were here in the summer, Corinne and I took a day and picked out fabrics for some special projects.
We picked out fabrics for two soft blankets:
These blankets are flannel on one side and a cotton fabric on the other. Corinne loved all the bright, lively children’s prints on the market now and chose these two. These blankets wash and wear beautifully and get used in countless ways. I gave our other daughter-in-law two for each new child (for a total of 8!), and Tami put them under a baby’s head in a crib to catch spit-up (saving washing the whole sheet), on the changing table, on the floor, over a sleeping baby, and so forth.
I buy 1 1/4 yards of each fabric, rip the selvages and edges to get straight grains, lay the two layers together right sides together, and trim where needed (the flannel piece is often larger), and sew around the edges (1/2-inch seam) leaving a turning space. I trim down the corners and push them out. Then, turn the fabrics right side out, iron, sew down the edges, and fold them prettily to show both layers.
Corinne also picked out an Amy Butler pattern for a diaper bag and fabrics to make it. Here’s what the finished product looks like. There are big pockets on both sides and lots of pockets inside, which I divided on one side for bottles:
Here is an end view of the handle detail:
And, one of the interior:
And, Corinne picked out an adorable bug fabric for the baby’s quilt backing. She left the rest to me, and here I am, beginning work on the quilt for my new granddaughter:
And here’s a hint of what’s going on:
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