Teig's room

Sometimes I wish I could be that mom who finds a cute bedset online for their baby's room and just buys it. Easy. But NOOooOOO... I have to invent a new style for each kid and spend weeks making them stuff they don't need for their room they will never remember. :) It actually brings me a lot of joy and since they probably won't remember it, I have to record it here.

This is Teig's baby blanket. I was inspired by a book about these awesome crazy quilts made by former slaves who saved every little scrap of fabric from every piece of old work clothes and hand-me-downs they could get and pieced them meticulously together into a "crazy quilt". It's been years since I saw the book on it and I can't find a reference online, but it was an awesome book. I used Paul's old jeans that I once tried to patch and some of Eirik and Joren's old T-shirts along with other pieces of fabric from favorite old things. I fell in love with this eccentric color scheme with tons of different textures from the shiny yellow fabric to the brown tweed. I gave it a soft grey flanel back and did a really random blanket stitch with floss throughout. I love the zigzig rickrack my friend Charyce gave me from a thrift store find. There's one leftover "penny" from the penny pillows I made last year with Kristen. It's a hodgepodge, but that's what life is and I like the old better than the new usually. It reminds me of our amazing history. We are such products of where we came from and it's worth paying homage to it. My friend Kasey taught me how to bind a blanket and this is my first time doing it. Not hard at all and I love the finished product.

My friend Merillee made some fish that inspired these.




This is the afghan that I found at a thrift store that I fell in love with. I think these colors started all this madness. I just love this for some reason. This is the afghan (below) that my friend Jena MADE for me and Teig! Yeah, I know! I can't believe it either. My mind is still blown every time I look at it. Did she nail all my colors and my style or what? I could not love this more!

These are the two awesome, soft, lovely afghans that PATTY made me when she was in town. I did not know I loved afghans before this year, but now, as you can see, I can't get enough.



and a few more cutie fish.