jennifer over @ madebygirl posted about our apartment this week :) you'll get to see the photos that my amazingly talented friend jessica weiser took for me. eventually i will be putting up a whole slew of them (that didn't make it into jenn's blog) into a website for my home decorating business - my schooling is going really well so far and i'm enjoying it so much! the program is challenging but also interesting. (i tend to blog more about that over at my personal blog. follow me there, too, if you'd like!)

i'll be spending my free time this weekend working on two custom orders. they've both been cut out and i'm in the beginning stages of the sewing parts of each. one will probably come along faster than the other, so that is the one i'm focusing most on this weekend.

the top blue fabrics are for a baby who has yet to be born. i'll be doing a 9-patch quilt with two matching pillows. the bottom car/truck fabrics are for a little boy who is four and loves anything with an engine! (that is the one i'll be working on mostly this weekend.)

onesies quilt..

sneak peek of the custom quilt i am making from onesies and great modern designer fabrics! i got all of the squares laid out this week, ready to start sewing! still deciding on border, backing, and binding fabrics. i chose to do just simple square blocks since the onesies' fabrics are stretchy knit and can be a bit more difficult to work with... but i think in the end its going to be perfect!

busy busy!!

we've been so busy with the new apartment that i'm just now finally getting comfortable and finding time to work in my sewing room... i've got a few little works in progress (plus two that are sitting next to the machine patiently waiting their turns..) that i'm anxious to finish up and list in my shop! stay tuned! :)



also, more photos of the apartment coming soon!

we're all moved in!

we're all moved in, and its starting to look a bit like home... we're making a trip to Ikea next weekend, so i will wait to post pics of most of the rooms until we've gotten the rest of our furniture and rugs etc...

but the sewing room is coming along. i spent a lot of time this weekend making curtains for all over the apartment. i'm still looking for some shelving, and i haven't hung any artwork yet.. but i thought i'd share some "before"s, in the meantime :)



















as you can see, i'm at least set up in there enough to get some work done. not that i have a lot of time for work related sewing, when i have so much fun stuff to do around here!!

here are a few sneek peeks of some other rooms we're working on...
the music room/office/homework room:




entryway/sunroom/kitty room/library:


bathroom:




bedroom:





coming soon: living room & kitchen & dining space!

diy weekend + packing...

after a brief trip to home depot for some paint, i am in the process of re-doing some of the pieces that will end up in my new sewing room in a couple of weeks! my sewing table got painted a couple of years ago back in my old apartment, and at the time i loved the color -- but it wasn't going to fit at all into my color scheme, so a couple coats of Glidden's "Sea Fare" #17G 60/218 in satin finish, and its like new!!


also for the sewing room, i had got super cheap from ebay.. some frames for a handful of 8x10 prints i'd gotten from an etsy shop. i didn't like the color of the frames but i loved the style, so they got a new look too! (i'm actually going to spray them with an ultra gloss clear spraypaint after they are dry, to make them extra shiny.)


here is some of the art that will end up in the room, those 8x10s are the ones that will get framed:

i will be sure to get more photos in a couple of weeks once we start moving and i can get the new room all setup! it will be a fun process, i'll be shopping for a new desk chair and possibly a second desk, and some other things for the room at ikea. and i will be making my own curtains and some pillows as well. my mother also has an old lamp and mirror that may get a re-do for the room, too!

but for now, spring is here!

work in progress...

still working on my Neptune pinwheel quilt. click the photo to see it larger! just waiting on my border fabrics to get here! i had lots of triangles leftover, so i will be working on the next one (see previous post for details) ASAP! :)

neptune.

working on my first pinwheel quilt today.. with Tula Pink's Neptune line.. should be a fun project! any leftover blocks will be going into my next project, which will be a flying geese quilt.
(click to see larger photo...)