La TGIFF Positive attitude {quilting}

It is finally my time to host! How exciting! Well done for making all the way to my blog! I am Nat. I love making things for our house and people (mostly Baby MiH, who is 6 week old today!). My blog runs as a diary of my different projects and my inspirations.

Enough about me, let's discuss this Friday TGIFF. There was a plan (note to self: never discuss 'publicly' the plan before the plan is finalised), and what I am about to show you was not part of the plan. It is the back up plan I did not think I had on Wednesday.

So here we are, the back up plan and what is actually finished: another wash cloth. The design is a pattern I am working on (as clearly it has major flaws). I added some embroidery because I like it just in case someone was going to steal Baby MiH's wash cloth.

The pattern is not supposed to look like this, but this is what I ended it up with. The right side is clearly fatter than the left one (not sure if this is a reflection of my own current body shape?), and one side is not the right way round.. 

However I am on the right track with this design. I was not sure how to make what I had in my head, but I now know how, and how to rectify some of my mistakes. 

So when I had a quilt top ready, but decided I did not like it, what was I supposed to do with it? Well there is only one person in our family who cannot criticise what I make (as he cannot talk), and that is how Baby MiH ended up with a new wash cloth! Trust me, he loves it!

So that was my TGIFF story, what is yours? What have you finished for this Friday?

All Sets {Sewing}

Baby Report (D-Date + 9, French D-Date + 1): nothing, but apparently we are in the right direction. So still time to finish off some of the nagging little tasks I had on my list, and use up some leftovers of the terry cloth I used for the hooded towel.

We decided not to buy a baby changing table. It is more a question of place than money, and also height. It is not easy to find one for a 6'2 man that will also be good for a 5'2 woman. Sounds silly but you have to think of those things now and not in the middle of the night. We bought a cheap, plastic-y and gross good value changing mat that fitted perfectly on top of the chest of drawers we have in Baby MiH's room - a good height for the both of us (as in a wee bit too high for me and a wee bit too low for Mr MiH). The chest of drawers needs to be updated but this is a totally different project for another day. As mentioned said changing mat needed to be covered, and with a sort of towel - vintage style. 

70s mirror from Mr MiH parents' attic and we need a picture of Baby MiH in one of the frames

I go through phases when it comes to buying lines of fabrics. And I went through a vintage phase. I needed some 70s vintage fabric in my stash. I found a shop on Etsy and bought some - very excited indeed. However when it came to doing something with it, I was not sure anymore. I have quite a modern approach and I could not deal with the pattern.. Except if the pattern was not the focus...  and was to become a large binding? 

It was indeed perfect for the changing mat towel. I was ready. I made a one-inch binding so you can see the dogs and some of the character, and a couple of wash cloths. There is no stopping me!

The mat

I doubled the thickness of the terry cloth so that Baby MiH could not feel the plastic underneath his little bottom. 

With some of the owl fabric I had left, I managed to make a couple of wash cloths to match the hooded towel and a very French wash cloth as well - we are all set for bath time now! 

The wash cloths are so easy to make, they are the perfect last minute gifts - of course you need some terry cloth though and that might take a wee while longer. 

If you have not done so, there is still half an hour left until the GIVEAWAY ends. Good luck to everyone who participated! I am so happy you liked the knitted baubles! Cannot wait to see them decorating one of my followers living room!