April 2016 Moms
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Crafty moms check in
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1. What have you been working on?
2. what would you like to get done this week?
3. What's your nursery looking like?
2. what would you like to get done this week?
3. What's your nursery looking like?
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2. I have no plans, but I do have some fabric for a baby quilt that I'd like to start on. I've never made a quilt, but I'm excited to try.
3. We're not sure where baby will be going yet. I'm thinking that we'll put our 2 girls in DD1's room, but we've got plenty of time to decide.
2. If I could get anything done, it would be making the crib sheets, since I can easily store those.
3. The nursery is non-existent. I can't do anything until after we move, which probably won't be until early March. I've been trying to come up with a good plan for a shared bedroom for the boys, but most of the inspiration that I can find is for a baby and an older child... DS1 will be about 21 months old when DS2 is born, so I can't do the cool bunk bed Hong I keep seeing.
1. I finally finished painting my chair. The cats claimed it as their own shortly after moving it into the house from the garage. I also crocheted a matching hat and booties, and made my sister an arm-knitted scarf, which I made DH model for photos. He was playing PS4 and was less than thrilled with his new modeling gig.
2. I plan to finish an Avengers afghan for LO (so stinking cute!) and clean out the future nursery, then I'll scout out hobby lobby and michael's online for end-of-year sales.
3. My nursery still has a few miscellaneous boxes to unpack but I plan to take the next few days to clean it out and start buying furniture and buying the supplies to decorate.
2. Hopefully I get more of the baby blanket knitted. I also want to make a headband to go with the cocoon, so I'll probably do that when I feel the need to complete something not just get slightly further along.
3. I plan on finishing taping up the nursery today (except the ceiling which is all DH) so we can start painting this weekend.
2. I'm hoping to get the rest of the first quadrant finished, and hopefully part of the second quadrant started. We have no plans this weekend, which should help.
3. It still looks like a guest bedroom/library, honestly. We're starting to put some thought into the colors we want to have, though, so we can start to register and hopefully find coordinating crib bedding and curtains and a comforter for the full-size guest bed that will remain in the nursery. And now that we've brought home the cradle, we're that much closer to actually having the motivation to move the furniture around!
@sprocketsngadgets aww a mermaid cocoon is on my wish list! They're all so cute! Is it knitted? I lose my patience for knitting very easily..
Edit because phone think patience is stir crazy.
1. Nothing. I had absolutely no motivation after the holidays... And I feel really super guilty about it.
2. I'd like to restart the scrapbook. Like literally scrap everything I've done and restart.
3. We don't have one yet. We're moving in three or four weeks. The date isn't set yet. All we know is that we're on the top of the list and someone is moving out mid-January so we're getting their spot. Oh, but will I get crafty fever once I have that space to work in. I'm dying to find out if I'm allowed to paint the walls.
https://www.bhookedcrochet.com/2014/11/15/mystic-mermaid-cocoon/
1. With the holidays, my sister asked me to do some wood burning for a Christmas Train from Santa for my nephew... it came out cute! But beyond that I have had little motivation to work on projects... I still have only one bootie of my second pair! Ha ha.
2. I really want to paint the wood letter monogram for the nursery. I'm debating if I want it to have glitter edges, or be hung with a ribbon... both would be too much.
3. Nursery is coming along so nicely! I'm in love with it!
2. I won't be finishing anything, but just plugging away at this blanket.
3. No nursery. I did start looking at change tables, though.
I have a wood burning tool on my Amazon wish list, but didn't get it for Christmas. Now, I'm wishing I had. The train looks amazing!
And this flower, because I didn't like the original option: https://www.bhookedcrochet.com/2013/07/13/crochet-flower-pattern/
Thanks @AmadorRose! Hope mine comes out as cute!
I also taught myself to crochet! Sort of...evidently I missed the memo that I need to count on every row, because its rather tapered and will end up looking more like a triangle than a blanket.
2. I bought marshmallow yarn tonight and hope to start a blanket with that!
3. I don't have a nursery, but I am working on putting the massive pile of laundry away that currently sits in the spot where LOs crib will be.
2. I'm debating starting an afghan purely to have a long term project, but we have so dang many blankets in this house already that we definitely don't need to make another. Maybe I'll look into if the hospital does care packages for losses. I've heard some do, but have no idea about ours...
3. Done from DD but in need of some TLC. (Pano attached, click and zoom to see the whole thing). Hopefully I'll paint the Baobob/Savannah tree mural (in the corner over the twin bed) in 2 weeks when DD is at the ILs. Then the to do list is:
Deep clean
New sheets and lengthen crib skirt,
Re-hang chevron lion painting,
Move DDs monogram and make a matching one for DS (once he has a name),
Sort DDs and DSs clothes and swap the drawers to the other side of the credenza
Get a bed rail so we can transition DD to the twin bed.
I'm starting a marshmallow blanket tonight that I got from Good Knit Kisses tonight. This little guy will be born in AZ in April, so it's not for warmth, mostly cuteness for pictures.
2. what would you like to get done this week?
I want to figure out how to do the damn magic ring part from the pattern @AmadorRose used. I seriously can't get it right and it's driving me nuts.
3. What's your nursery looking like?
We've deciding on doing a completely grey and white bedroom for the kids with masculine fabric for him and feminine patterns for her. This is one of the sheets I got for Thomas today
(This is my crochet life)
I finished this blanket and hat, but have a few more almost done. I also have several mermaid sleepers I'm about 2 days away from completing.
ETA: wrapped, not weapon, sheesh.
Her room is not as far along as I'd hoped because we realized we'll need to reorganize other rooms first to clear out our existing guest room/soon-to-be-nursery. Oh well!
2. Aqua squares (row 1 #1)
3. Blue arrows (row 2 #3)
4. Burgundy/gray triangles (row 3 #2)
What colors/theme is the rest of your nursery? Or were you one of the ladies doing a corner nursery?
I like.. blue chevron with goldfish (1:2), grey stars (2:5), and multicolored triangles (3:1) the best though.