Car seat cover pattern

OK, so I have a word format of the pattern for the car seat blanket that I have posted about. I can't figure out how to translate that to this format, so well, if you want the pattern, (Confusing as it may be to read, I'm no professional pattern maker) Leave me a comment with your email, or if you have my email, email me, or contact me on facebook. Or if you know that I have your email, just leave a comment.

Running Dreams

Last night I had a dream that I was running in a race, and it felt so amazing. I was running with a group of people, but they were holding me back, because I just felt so great while running.
I never thought I'd say this, but I think I miss running. (Remind me of that in 4 or so months when I start up again.)

oh the irony

Well, it's official- I've lost my needles. I had them this morning to sew something up, and now I can't find them. So I'm no longer losing my needles, I am now lost my needles.

And what I made with it

Thanks to a marathon quilting day with my friends Jana and Colleen I got the quilt top finished for baby girl. The first three of the block rings are pleats, which after I quilt it, I'll get a close up to see the effect. Also coming after I quilt it will be little flowers that I'll attach in the center of each block. They will be made out of the brown fabric with the pink dots, and if I ever get the brown fabric with the green dots that I ordered, that two.

Now comes the fun part- quilting it. Sounds like a mindless activity to keep my hands busy while watching conference.

I'm going to say it, I kind of wish that I had made all of the blocks look like the four that have the dark rings in the inside, and the light rings as the outer rings. I thing that would have been a better effect, but both Colleen and Jana told me I should do half and half. I honestly don't know which way I would have gone on my own- that's why I asked their opinion, because I didn't know.... I didn't feel like wasting all of the fabric to do them over again though. That is the problem with not having a pattern to work off of- you just don't know exactly what it's going to look like at the end of the day. Oh well. I still like it.

I also made another one of those suspended car seat blankets, and I promise to soon get the pattern up for those. Look for a give away on the family blog in the next weeks. I'm almost at my 200th post!

Look at what came today

My fabric came today. There are still some others coming. The pink dots that sits on top of the green fabric has a matching green dot fabric that I had to get from another site. I had also ordered the top two fabrics, the smaller pink dot, and the pink and brown in the matching green. They were back ordered, so I may have to see about that before proceeding. I'll be fine either way once the first green dot comes. The big flowers is going to be the back, and the striped is going to be the binding. Imagine it on the bias. Anyway, I'm excited to actually start making this into a real quilt.

Oh, and you may notice that the smaller pink flower print matches the car seat blanket that I used. The quilt shop in town only carries this line in blue, so that's what I used.

car seat blanket

A few months back I saw a picture of these car seat blankets on a blog, and it was linked to an etsy shop. When I saw it, I knew that I needed to make one. I always cover my infant seats with blankets, but sometimes they drag on the ground, or fly away, or do all sorts of things. This is designed to fit the car seat exactly without dragging on the ground, and it is fitted to the seat in the back to lessen the frequency of wind blowing it around. It has nifty little Velcro straps which attach it to the handle of the seat, keeping it in place.

And it's reversible. I'll probably use it on the flower side for the most part with this baby, but if we have a boy in the future, now I don't have to make a new one. (He will just have to look at flowers all of the time. :)

So there is one project for the new baby completed!

Winners creations

I finally have finished making the prizes for the winners of the give away. Rachel is getting this cute little artist case. Added bonus- the cute flowers I added to the front. I was toying with this idea, and wanted to see how making the flowers would work, so I tried it on this. I came up with the idea one night in bed. That's where I come up with most of my quilting ideas. Mostly the ones that don't work out so well, but these worked just about as I imagined them. So as soon as I can get an envelope, and work up the courage to make it to the PO, this will be headed her way.

And this one is for Nanabear. If we have church tomorrow I'll try to remember to bring it there. I was pleased with how both of them turned out. And I love all of these fabrics. Of course, they were all in my stash, so of course I loved them, I picked them out.