Cynthia Rowley's "Oh Baby" line - shorts and tie

Have I ever said that I love working for/with Trenna?  Well, I do.  It's an exciting life, though I think I'd rather live it from where I am rather than where she is.  She does an incredible amount of work and pulls things off in record time. Yet at the same time, she makes it look amazing!  To top it off, she's so complimentary of my small part in her job.  What's not to like?

Friday, she called me up at 11:15 as I was about to walk out the door to pick up Gideon from Kindergarten and wanted to bring me fabric to do something really fast.  Still working with Cynthia Rowley's fabric, but needing to make something less "girly."  The catch is that she needed it faster than fast.  The catalog was supposed to be printed by Monday.  After I had picked up Gideon, she came over, we talked and figured out what to do.

Behold the end result with just over 4 hours of sewing and using my own made up patterns and son to model it.  (Constantly blurry photos since he won't hold still for long).  He loved the shorts and didn't want to take them off.

Cynthia Rowley's "Oh Baby" line - nursery set

 Cynthia Rowley's new "Oh, Baby" line!

Here's the pictures of the work Emerald and I did for Trenna with the new Cynthia Rowley "Oh, Baby" fabric line.  There's a pillow, bumpers, sheet and crib skirt. 

For the pillow (shown without the pillow form inside), I tried to match up the fabrics, but as you can see, lining up in one place did not make it line up all the way down the line.  Thus we see that all animals (at least those printed on material) are not created equal. ;-)

Some nice colorful bumpers in the same fabric as the pillow.

Beautiful crib sheet.  A nice soft print with letters in the middle.

Yes, I know I should have ironed the crib skirt, but it was already 11:00 at night and we had to be up early for work/school, etc the next day.  Besides, I knew Trenna was going to iron it before she photographed it and it was going to get all wrinkly again in the bag as I brought it over to her, so I didn't bother - and it shows.

King Size Pillow Cases with Style

One Christmas I made or helped one of the kids make these pillow cases for Sterling.  They would go on some king size pillows and help to make a little corner of his bedroom into a comfy, cozy spot for reading.

It's really very simple cutting strips of the coordinating fabrics, sewing them together, cutting them into joined squares, flipping every other set to make the checkerboard pattern and sewing them back together.  Then adding them to the pillow case near the end and finished with a nice decorative stitch.  Easy, peezy.

This has been a busy week sewing for Trenna.  New Michael Miller fabric including some Cynthia Rowley fabric. I will try and get those pictures up next week.  I've also begun working on some items for a fundraiser auction to send our youth group's boys and girls to scout camp and girl's camp.  I will get pictures up as I get things done.

February Quilt

Here is the February/Valentine's Quilt.  It has two different background fabrics and 4 fabrics that make up each heart.  The heart is appliqued onto the background fabric and then cut in quarters on the diagonal.  Then swapped around and sewn back together.  It has pink sashing with the red teddy bear fabric for the sashing corners and the border.  Pretty simple.

 

Doll Nine Patch Arrow Quilt and Cradle

Of course because Fiona had such a fabulous doll cradle and blanket, for Christmas 2009, Karina got one as well.  For Karina, I had plenty of her baby blanket fabric left over and made the same pattern, only without doing them on-point.   It was easier that way.  I made both sides identical so the back looks the same as the front.  Lining up each corner to tack it down was a bit tricky.  Sterling got to make the cradle/stool this time, using the same pattern I had made for Donovan to use for Fiona.

Doll Split Rail Quilt and Cradle

 The center of this quilt was made totally out of the scraps cut off from making something else.  What could I make with 6 scrap strips that were barely over 1-1/2" wide?  Why, a little doll blanket.  I simply cut them all to the same width, sewed 3 of them together side by side and the other 3 together.  Cut them into squares and arranged them into a split rail.  Then I slapped a boarder on it with coordinating fabric, sandwiched it with batting (left over from something else) and a back and tacked it down with the machine at all the corners. 

Et voila, a lovely and loved doll blanket. It was given to my daughter, Fiona for Christmas and fit very nicely with the cradle/step stool her brother Donovan made her for Christmas.  These were made and given to her for Christmas 2006, I believe.  Eight-year-old Donovan made the stool/cradle (OK, I helped by copying the pattern from one my dad had designed and made probably 25 years before, cutting it out and helping him put it together, but he painted it and painted her name on it).