A Blanket for Baby

I just finished my latest project: a blanket for the new baby. Ironically, I actually started another blanket before Christmas and still haven't finished it. I guess as long as it's done by mid May, I'll be fine.

For this blanket, I chose the orange because it's the color that I have come to associate with this baby and I chose the blue because I liked the way it complemented it with the stripes and the jungle animals. I was originally going to put blue bias tape around the edges, but in the end, I liked how it looked as is, so even though the edges don't have a fully finished look, I'm happy with it. The back is a solid piece of the orange fabric.

New Pillows

I recently redid the pillows in my sunroom. It felt really good to be able to make these... pillows are strangely expensive and can really change the flavor of the room. Previously, I had a set that were more quilt-looking and gave the room a straight-up country feel. My house, with all of the exposed wood, already tends towards that home-grown country style and I really don't like it (I mean, I love my house, I don't like that country style). I do, however, want the decor to go with the house (so no ultra modern black and white, for example), so I aim for more a mission, Frank Llyod Wright style, or a somewhat French country look.

For the fabrics, I had to work with the sage green on the chair in the sunroom and the cream on the walls. I wanted to use toille because I thought it gave that French country look and I just like it. I chose to use a maroonish purple as the accent color.

This is my comfy green chair -- the one that in about three months I will be sitting in a lot, nursing the new baby. The chair is a little too deep, so I have a pillow for added support. I used the cream toille and a solid cream (on the back) to make a pillow case for a standard bed pillow. I chose to make a pillow case that would come off so that any baby spit-up could easily be washed off.

These are the futon pillows. I used a cream toille, a maroon toille, a stripe, a floral and then a solid maroonish purple for each of these. The solid green pillows that you can kind of see behind these are store bought and had previously gone with the quilted country pillows, but were solid and neutral enough to stick around.


This is the futon as a whole. I really like how the new pillows look with the old ones and with the existing futon cover and wall art.

For contrast, you can see the old pillows here.