Craft Me This: January 2012

I saw this easy flannel "quilt" on pinterest and knew it was something I wanted to tackle.

With a little of help I got it made just in time for my brand new baby boy.

I ended up making it a little different than the tutorial, but still think it turned out cute.

I made mine 40"x40" with 4" squares, spaced an inch apart. There ended up being a seven row grid. I love the way it turned out, and I'm glad I made it a little bigger than the tutorial, because the flannel shrunk quite a bit after I washed and dried it.

For my squares I bought 12" pieces of fabric to work with... I really only needed 4" (or 5" to correct poor cutting jobs), so I was able to use the extra to get some matching burb clothes.

This quilt could easily be started and finished in a day.

So go on and give one a try.

Craft. Me. This.

Tutorial link HERE.

Special thank you to my Mom and Roberta for helping with these projects.

We are expecting a baby brother at our house any day now.

I saw an idea for a sibling hospital gift and knew I had to jump on that train.

So when the girls come to visit their new baby brother these will be waiting for them.

They are made from sewing together a placemat from the dollar store. It was a really quick and easy thing to do, and I just used some thick ribbon for the handles.

Here is what each kiddo is getting:

The younger sibling...

I did make the I Spy bags, I found the pencil case on clearance at target for like $0.28, it didn't have the plastic part on it, so I added it, took out the zipper and sewed in some ric-rac instead.

It was fun and simple.

and the older sibling

The notebook is a composition book covered in paper (and 'laminated' with packaging tape), I was going to add her name... but got lazy and figured she wouldn't care.

I also thought it would be fun to make some diapers for my girls baby dolls so that they could learn how to change a diaper, and feel a little more involved with taking care of baby brother.

It is kind of weird because our babies don't lose their clothes, but I don't think that will stop the girls from changing diapers over and over again.

Of course the baby would also need some wipes and a bottle to eat from, so we included that too.

The wipes container is an old Cottenelle Flushable wipes. Perfect size for pretend play.

I was wondering what I was going to put this all in, and had a surprise quilt show up at my house from a dear friend that also included some lined drawstring bags (thank you again Cathy!).

It was the perfect size for holding all of the babies necessities.