Quilt and bed skirt done!

I feel accomplished, but still have more to go.

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!

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. 

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

The Fabric and the Sewing Machine

I have had it for over a month and I been avoiding it, it feels overwhelming, if I mess it up, it will be epic, it's such a cute fabric! it needs to be handle properly, but I cant ignore it anymore, time to start.
But first my sewing machine has to break and I needed to get a replacement and here it is.

The Tshirt

Soooo I got distracted, between Andrew going back to school, swimming lessons, soccer lessons, etc etc I was very busy for the last week or so, but before you know it, it was my birthday and I was going to mark the occasion by making something fo myself! Oh yeah!
So I had the genius idea of being the cool aid man, given how pregnant I'm starting to look and I got a man size tshirt for the right length and I altered it and it turn out so well I thought "I'll make more!" well, bad idea, all the other ones were bad, I got lucky and I'll never do that again. Let's just focus on how awesome the cool aid man tshirt is, was and leave it at that.

Felt: stuffing, sewing and glueing

Today I started by trying to sleep and continued with sewing the edges and stuffing the little guys. I still don't know what I'm doing with them for sure, but I'm glad they are done!
Next I used the Internet to find the proper pattern for the Doctors scarf and I was committed to doing it precisely but after 3 hours of sewing I decided it will be whatever I want it to be. My lack of patience got the best of me! But that is also done! Also... No idea what I'm doing with it, but Andrew had fun with it!
After going back to reality, cleaning, laundry, dinner and making an apple pie for fun, I remembered I had bought these sticky frames and figured - why not felt them like the scarf! Those are now done too!  I still might do a skinny scarf for something, another project that I have no idea what I'll do with later, as always, but it's ok, everything always works out at the end :)

Doctor Who felt items completed! 

Felt Adiposes and stars 

Trying really hard to do 4th Doctor Who scarf

Some corners had to be fixed after this 

Frames with Doctor Who scarf pattern

Day 1: felt..I'm not very patient, why did I do this to myself?

I started by pinning images to felt pieces and cutting the outlines. I continued to sewed on eyes, oh the eyes! So many different types of eyes! And of course I settle for the non eyes made of printed black circles on felt. Then I started to embroider the details and that takes forever at least an hour for the pocket watch. By the end of the night I had cut them all and they were smiling back at me. That is way better than what I had considered half way through the process which included having "2 face" like character and sad and happy faces on alternative sides. Day 1 accomplished, I survived felt cutting, tomorrow (or next time I blog my progress) is felt sewing and stuffing or just sewing.

Felt

When overwhelmed by what seems as an impossible project, felt is a way of simplifying a project, if I cant do felt, I should quit now.

For this part I spent a good deal of time at Joann's buying a sheet of each felt fabric and random things.

 I also dusted off my "sewing" kit which is just a collection of items I always forget I have and end up buying multiples. 

I spent several hours finding images of Doctor Who of items that would be kid/baby friendly.

Doctor Who has a lot of scary elements that are not baby friendly so step 1 is to softening the concepts with felt and something will click, at least I hope.

Not a Hardcore Fan

I like a challenge and I like Doctor Who, seems simple enough. Turns out not so simple, not only am I not a hard core fan but there is nothing I can buy pre made for a nursery that is Doctor Who. This blog will be a way of not over cluttering facebook with pictures of my experiments of my attempts at making a Doctor Who nursery. If any true Doctor Who fans find this, please forgive me, I am not an expert, I have been watching the show since 2006 or was it 2005? I remember Rose and the different companions but I will not know which episode or if it really happened, to make things worse english is not my first language so listening to the Doctor talk is a lot of "what did he just say?"