{"id":894,"date":"2010-04-14T11:11:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T18:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/?p=894"},"modified":"2010-04-12T14:59:34","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T21:59:34","slug":"the-finished-crib-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/the-finished-crib-set\/","title":{"rendered":"The Finished Crib Set"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, after a lot of cutting and piecing and sewing and stitch ripping and a few quick “on the fly” adjustments because I miscalculated………the crib set is COMPLETED.<\/p>\n

I sewed the very last piece of thread on the drive home from church on Sunday and I have to admit….it felt pretty good.<\/p>\n

I actually made a crib sheet (still need to make one more), bumper pads and a quilt all without an official pattern and I think that it looks pretty good, if I do say so myself. <\/p>\n

\"With<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

I guess that biggest thing is that I actually like it. I do see things that I could have done differently or if I were doing again, that I’d do better, but for my first ever attempt at anything like this….I’m pretty proud of what I’ve accomplished.<\/p>\n

I wrote a few different patterns for the quilt and finally settled on one that I figured that I liked. it wasn’t too busy and I didn’t figure that it’d be too difficult to cut and piece and actually “do”.<\/p>\n

I cut out all the pieces of fabric based on the sizes that I had calculated in my pattern and tried to figure out at the same time where they were all going, based on how much of the fabric I had and what looked the best sitting next to each other.<\/p>\n

Here is my attempt to puzzle all the pieces together before attempting to sew them….<\/p>\n

\"Somewhat<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Once I actually started to sew the pieces together I realized that I had miscalculated by 4 inches…..that’s a pretty big miscalculation AND…..I didn’t have enough fabric left over to re-cut the pieces that I had messed up on and so…then I had to figure out how I was going to “fix” it and continue on.<\/p>\n

Here is the finished top piece and you can see where I had to add additional 2 inch pieces in on the 3rd and 4th lengths and in order to make the quilt look “intentional” I also then had to reduce 2 of the outside panels that I had NOT miscalculated on…oh the joy…..oh the fun!<\/p>\n

\"Quilt<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

I then stopped working on the quilt and started working on the bumper pads. I was initially going to just make them completely out of the dark paw print material, (I bought 2 meters of the yellow dot, and 2 meters of the dark brown and a fat quarter of each of the other prints. I could have just gone and bought some more, BUT…it was almost like a challenge to try to use up the remaining fabric that I had left over and still come up with something that I liked while not HAVING to buy any more fabric……..and aside from wanting to buy one more meter of the yellow dot to make another crib sheet – I have been able to do exactly that.) I didn’t have enough fabric to go ahead and do that, but I could piece some pieces together and hopefully make it work. <\/p>\n

I’ll admit, that I created WAY MORE work for myself than was necessary but I was able to puzzle enough pieces together without them looking completely ridiculous and I didn’t have to buy any more fabric (for this project) AND…….even better…..The bumper pads fit PERFECTLY!<\/p>\n

\"Bumper<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Here is a side view and we are still going to paint the crib and to figure out a way to tie the end ties onto the head and foot boards to keep them from falling down….<\/p>\n

\"Pads<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Here is Jon holding up the completed quilt…<\/p>\n

\"Complete<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

and here is a partial view of the back side of the quilt……<\/p>\n

\"Quilted<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

My mom came and helped me to “quilt” the blanket and we used our little man’s name and also put 3 stars in the 2 opposing corners……It looks AMAZING, but you’ll have to wait until the big day to find out what our little man’s name is going to be….<\/p>\n

There are a few extra pictures in the set<\/a> that you can check out if you so desire. <\/p>\n

I’m just happy that it all worked out and that it’s ONE MORE THING that I can cross off my list. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, after a lot of cutting and piecing and sewing and stitch ripping and a few quick “on the fly” adjustments because I miscalculated………the crib set is COMPLETED. I sewed the very last piece of thread on the drive home from church on Sunday and I have to admit….it felt pretty good. I actually made … Continue reading “The Finished Crib Set”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,25,16,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafty-goodness","category-firsts","category-me","category-pregnancy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":898,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions\/898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}