Ta-da!
It only took me 6 months, but I finally finished Eden’s quilt. I feel guilty because I made a quilt for another cutie-pie first (her baby shower was in December and I knew I wanted to make something.) For Eden’s quilt I wanted to create something with an Anthropologie vibe that was all-over kind of neutral with punches of color.
As I type, Eden just turned 6 months old. What you don’t know about that picture above is that I plopped her down like twenty times only to have her roll onto her side before I could safely let go and take the picture! You can imagine how happy I was to have her both upright AND smiling!
I spent the final month of my pregnancy painting Eden’s crib. I found a zero VOC paint at Lowes by Olympic Paint. The color is Calypso Berry and it was that color from which I picked out my fabrics to use in making the quilt. I used a lot of Art Gallery fabrics (seriously, I love LOVE LOVE them!), some Joel Dewberry, & the base is just a neutral Jo-Ann grab. The Art Gallery fabrics are from their Summer Love & Modernology collections by Pat Bravo (this has to be one of the nicest designers around – her videos make you want to jump into the screen with the crew and start dancing!) I hope to meet her at Spring Quilt Market in Portland OR in a few months. (And I am just DYING to meet Bari J! She is one of the newest members of the Art Gallery Team. I’ll be crafting with some of her LillyBelle fabric that I have stockpiled soon (waves to @BariJ !) But back to Eden’s quilt… The Joel Dewberry fabric is from his Aviary 2 collection and is the Woodgrain in the Bark color line that essentially trims out the quilt with the binding.
Here she is, above, playing with her appliquéd letter “E”. Or she’s thinking about eating her toe. Actually, I am pretty sure it is the second. Thank you to @CindySews for all her help, especially with the appliqué stuff. She is not only my sewing teacher, but also my dear friend. Between Cindy and her friend (now mine), Pam (who owns Delray Fabrics – you should buy all your modern fabrics there. Seriously) I find myself cracking up whenever we’re all together. Got a problem with one of the Real Housewives? Chat about it with Pam – she’ll back you up.
Couldn’t end this without my Sweet Eden’s gummy grin. I hope she reads this one day and knows all the love I put into this hand-made quilt. Baby girl, mommy L O V E S you to the moon and back!
My baby girl is growing like a weed. I wish I had blogged about her more, but it seems like instagram & twitter (along with social cam) are just so much easier/convenient when total cuteness is going down. Let me catch you up about Eden:
She is now 5 months old (that’s my digital scrapbook page above – I manage to make one per month, much fewer than what I would like to do.) She is a l w a y s HAPPY! I swear I have the happiest baby. There are exceptions, like last night when the meanest diaper rash took charge. But other than that, she just smiles and smiles. I am SO IN LOVE.
Lets see…She rolls this way and that and even spins like a top (so it seems when I check in over the video monitor above her crib.) She loves to suck on her toes. She’ll also stand forever as long as she holds onto my hands. But then she tries to suck on my fingers and things turn into a wet mess! She has been jabbering so much. At the end of her bottle, I’ll just lie next to her on the glider rocker with my face about 6″ away and she’ll just look at me and say all these little jabbering consonants with milk drooling from her mouth. L O V E.
Here she is with her big bro, Max. He’s a fan, especially of the toys under her little exer-dome thing on the floor of the nursery. Every night, after bath time, Max goes into Eden’s room and has his little routine: shake the rattle, put the caterpillar into Eden’s crib, turn on the mobile, turn on glow sea horse, kiss baby Eden and then finally kiss whichever parent is taking care of Eden at the time. We have taught Max to be gentle with Eden (as we did with the kitties… “Gentle with the kitties!” is what I must have said a thousand times over the last year.)
Max goes to “school” during the day to Abuela’s house. When I went to pick him up the other day, he was playing with a toy bassinet with a dolly baby inside. It looked like a miniature version of Eden in her car seat carrier. How cute that he was practicing being a big brother 🙂
I got so much advice when I started having children. I try to follow the important things. The one thing I have done is this: RELISH EVERY SINGLE SECOND I HAVE WITH MY KIDS. I really do. Whether it is our after dinner walk, helping Max jump down off the fire hydrant, or cleaning up what seems to be the 50th puke of the day off my freshly showered body from baby girl, I know they are only little for a split second. And while I may miss my meteorological professional-ness, nothing, and I mean NOTHING could be better than spending time with my kids. I am so grateful. Stay at home mom = lucky girl. Go hug your kid!
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