Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Doctor Who Nursery - DONE!


Tomorrow I will be 9 months pregnant and I can say - the nursery is done!
I'm grateful that we are able to provide a wonderful home for our kids and in this case a fun space for soon to arrive Adrian. I like to think its a mild theme on Doctor Who but I been told not as mild as I think. Besides the Tardis paintings on the wall everything can be removed and at his desire changed, which I'm sure will happen and I designed it so I wouldn't get my heart broken when the time comes.
Goes to show with some felt, themed fabric and a little paint you can go a long way.

The great thing about a Doctor Who nursery is anything goes, cowboy hat, dinosaurs  TARDIS, robots, monkeys and a long scarf to later on hold pictures.

Eeyore as Doctor Who
This are sticky frames with fabric and felt and I ordered post cards with Deliks and DaVinci painting of TARDIS and cut the to fit into the frames , no glass and very soft. 

I made 2 mobiles, this is the white one I used 2 different size embroidery hoops  and using some of the felt characters at  different angels for baby to amuse himself while getting its diaper changed. 

The curtains hung, one is 1 cm higher than the other... i dont want to talk about it. 
Mobile 2 using the iron on pieces of felt and blue felt shapes, this one will be helpful while feeding, here with awesomse TARDIS pillow. 


The crib all pimped outin Doctor Who! with the bedskirt, the teething covers and the quilt. 
This mobile used to be Andrews and it fit perfectly with the idea of the TARDIS spinning in space
Thank you Katie! These were a pain in the ass, but they look great, notice its 2 different shades of blue! 
Andrew and I painted the background and used our favorite felt shapes with Adrian letters to make a little art. 

A view of the room as you come in. See, mild themed... right? :) 

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

The light at the end

After what I felt was a pretty nasty feeling about Doctor Who projects I added 2 more to end in a happy or satisfied note.
One was an idea for mobile made of garlands and the other was the remaining sticky frames. The garland was a challenge in that I didnt realize the ironing infusing paper was like a double sides sticker and thus I was getting irritated because I forgot to remove the back of the sticker... Oops, but I figure it out. And the frames I just lay them on ironed fabric and cut around them with a rotating cutting tool thingy, yeah, I was am this done.
Next is to finish painting the room, washing all the baby clothes and setting everything up, hopefully next pictures will have the room completed. Till then, it's us going to Disneyland for a final only kid vacation oft Andrew and Halloween crafting! It's ok I just put the lights in the front lawn and already look like the weirdos in the block, it's all good.

Fabric Tardis and boom

High hopes turn into disappointment, turn into just trying to accomplish something on that particular day.
To begin with, sewing a square with a sewing machine is a challenge for me. It was awful, I don't have the skills or patience, playing the too pregnant card for this.
Then the book, not too bad, till my dog decided to walk all over it with his muddy paws, making me irritated at the project, again these are all things within my control that didn't work as I wanted. But they are done.

Doctor Who blanket

This has to be my favorite Doctor Who project. It has the super soft blanket o one side with the Doctor Who fabric on the other, all trimmed with a satin navy blue ribbon. I know I will get a lot of use out of this item, provably the most and worth all the back pain. I give you the awesome Doctor Who blanket!

Back to blue and Doctor Who

It was time to get these things done! Halloween is around the corner and Andrew has high expectations, decorations need to be placed, costumes made, decorations made, laminating machine order.
So I started where I left off, with the unfinished teething bumper, and the car seat cover.

Pink

I got tired of looking at blue and doctor who fabric, so I gave myself a much needed week break but as my friends pointed out, it wasn't a break because I decided to make a quilt for my cousins daughter and was consumed by it. Will it work? Will they like it? Will it help me avoid an awkward moment between my family? Will this make them stop picking on me every time they see me? What can I say a lot had always been expected of me and I dont like to deliver it to them and I felt I was betraying my nature by this work of kindness towards a baby I had not meet but nonetheless I had nothing but good wishes for, after all, we are related and the quilt might fall apart but at least it made me think of her and what a wonderful future she can have.

Friday, September 21, 2012

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Day 2 of Unfinished Projects

I keep thinking that if I'm sitting - it won't make me tired, what a fool. I feel like at this point I should have finished a whole house worth of sewing, instead I have finished nothing. I made progress on the baby quilt, all it needs is to press the edges and sew them on, so about 4 more hours? hahaha! And I need to iron, sew the ribbon and the edges of the teething rail cover... Provably another 4 hours?... And then I can finish sewing the edges of the bed skirt, about maybe an hour.

So, tomorrow I'm suppose to take my sugar measuring liquid thing to see if I have diabetes while prego - yes I know there is a proper term for it but Im tired and sick and Im using my pregnancy brain card! I keep getting Harry Potter images of Joe forcing me to drink this liquid till it's all done, at 7:30 in the morning, not cool! Then I have speech therapy for Andrew and then his school and then, hey, I'm still sick. So, maybe update/ finish over the weekend? Blah, I wanted to be done!

My morning started with me happily ironing the quilt. 
Teething rail covers, oh the madness of sewing, cutting, turning and yet still sooo much more to do!
My least favorite part of quilting, sewing :D 
Nearly finished! The Doctor Who quilt and teething rail covers!

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Half Started Projects

I been all over the place over the last few days on the nursery projects. I started by cutting all the different fabric projects I could think of, baby quilt, bed skirt, teething bumper and I started painting the TARDIS'? On the wall with the help of lovely Katie. Im still going to try and achieve my goal of finishing the nursery before our trip to California so that when we get back we can be on Halloween mode to make the costumes!
But of course, first I got sick and then I got sicker... So here we are, the beginning to several projects.
This is so far the most frustrating part of the nursery, but with the help of Katie we got most of it done. TARDIS painted on the wall facing the crib. 
The baby quilt pattern, needs batting, sewing, finishing the ends... everything. I want it to be simple and a little more modern because the fabric detail is very, well, detailed, and I like the idea of it not just being Doctor Who but also being a stripped Doctor Who pattern to the fabrics in the room. 
Lots of measuring and remeasuring, basic math, using a straight edge, pins, etc, all to make sure we have straight lines for the quilt, bedskirt and teething bumper. 
The Doctor Who bedskirt almost done. Instead of using a white middle I decided to just use one big blue piece because i knew that if I saw the white peaking out at any point it would drive me crazy! It needs to have the bottom hemed and it needs to be ironed. 

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Doctor Who Curtains

Back to the fabric, so I woke up Saturday thinking "piece of cake in making rectangles all weekend! A bed skirt! 2 curtain panels and even maybe a fitted crib sheet!... It will take me a day or 2 at most!" once again I underestimated my ability to do things while pregnant with kids. So, Saturday I cut rectangles, I really though enough but I was mistaken. On Sunday I start seeing the curtains and it takes aaalll day, not cool! But it's done!
I was at first going to do one piece at the bottom but it looked weak, so was going to do 2 but I dont like even numbers so the third had to be included and I really like how it looks, except for the spacing between the 3 of them one if 1 cm bigger... i didnt account for sewing the bottom row, but I was so tired I didnt care, I'll live.
Tomorrow... Something else?
Cutting, ironing and sewing this curtains took FOREVER and I dont use that phrase a lot and Im using it like the teenagers do, it took FOREVER! 

I really wanted it to had tabs but i really try resisting it, just ironing and sewing each one of these 16 pieces took FOREVER 

This picture is more for me to remember how I spent my weekend, sewing and fixing the tension of the threat on the new sewing machine, over and over and over again. Good thing I got it at costco, if this continues it will earn a return! 

The finished product! Doctor Who curtains for the nursery! 

TARDIS Pillow Case!

I had to salvage one of the tshirts from the fiasco that was my maternity tshirt idea and this pillow cover made it all worth it! I just cut it to fit Andrews old pillow and sewed 3 sides to make it into a pillowcase.
Doctor Who pillow case, well TARDIS pillow case to be a little more accurate