Quilting

I’ve been working on this Christmas quilt for K and while I would not say I am good at hand quilting (hello enormous uneven stitches), it has been so much fun to put this together. I love the fabrics, especially the trees and the tiny houses in the background and backing, and quilting the panels has been like a stitched coloring book. I think I even have a shot at having it done for Christmas (although she has seen me work on it too so no big surprise).

I ordered this doll bed after much back and forth between it and another adorable option on Etsy. This one won the debate after the price dropped to less than half the cost of the other and with free shipping, plus it looks much more like the headboard and footboard I found at the thrift store a while ago for K’s bed. I still need to get to the hardware store for lumber for the side rails and bottom, and a bracket to attach to the header and footer.

Right now K has a floor bed but at 2.5 I think she’s ready to move into a big girl bed and am hoping to pull off that project right around Christmas too so that she gets her new bed and (almost) matching doll bed at about the same time. I even have an extra top sheet for one of her sheets sets that I got because it matched and was $2 (thank you thrift store), so I’m going to cut that up to make matching sheets for the doll bed. I also plan to make a matching duvet and a mini version of both the Christmas quilt, and the quilt that my mom made for her that’s usually at the foot of her bed. The doll bed might really be for me – ha! It will of course be her toy, but I am having so much fun making little things for it. I love miniatures as a kid, and getting back into them to make toys for K is such fun for me. 

I’ve also been working on her doll house which I bought at the thrift store last November, and which will probably be a Christmas gift next year or the year after. I know – that’s awfully far in advance to buy something, but I found a beautiful Pottery Barn doll house for $8 and it needs a decent amount of fixing up so the early start is handy, and of course lots of mini-versions of things we have. More on that later. If I didn't already have a doll house in progress, I would for sure buy this one and stash it - so cute. I've been thinking about painting the one I have white with a gray or black roof and this is the push I needed, although I think I will do the door (when I make one, it's missing) in a dark blue.