Here’s some craftiness I made about a year ago for the nursery – a flower baby mobile! Much more fun (& more stimulating) than pastel stuffed animals that are actually facing out of the crib, rather than down to the baby…
Kali loves her flowers!
All I did was buy some really big, bright fake flowers, some nylon fishing line, some ribbon and a large embroidery hoop. I cut the stems of the flowers, used a heavy duty needle to poke holes in the bases of the flowers & thread through the fishing line. Then I tied the line to the embroidery hoop (I only used the part of the hoop that is one piece, not the adjustable part), wrapped the hoop in ribbon, and tied 2 ribbons across the top, so they would cross in the middle. To the middle I tied a long ribbon that ties to a plant hook on the ceiling.
That’s it! Easy & cute! Sometimes Kalista will wake up and just lie under her flowers for a full hour, just talking to them & staring at them, which gives me time to run down to my studio and work on quilts – win, win!
PS – I also made those crib bumpers… they are made out of light green silky brocade fabric with a subtle cherry blossom print & light purple ribbon ties. Cute!
A while ago I updated my website, but then I had a baby & I never got around to updating my business cards & tags to match! (Can you blame me?)
Now that Kalista is 9 months old, I am finally getting caught up on some things, including my business cards & tags.
Here’s a pic of my new business cards:
My new business cards - pretty snazzy.
Not too shabby, if I do say so myself! Looks like being a design major for my first semester of college actually left me with some usable skills! And hey, I didn’t have to pay anybody to do it!
Dear husband,
If I asked you for a serger for my birthday (next week!), would you know what that is?
Will you be my birthday present?
Didn’t think so.
Why a serger? I’ve been really getting into sewing clothes for myself in my very limited free time (like 2 AM when everyone’s asleep!) I love knits, and thusly feel that a serger is not just a want, but a need. I don’t want an expensive one – just a basic serger will do!
I have the urge to serge. (don’t blame me for the cheese; I’m highly caffeinated, and simultaneously blogging and keeping my 9-month-old from getting into the dog’s water dish.)
Hopefully in the next week I will be able to post some pictures of my very own serger!
A few days ago I added some new things to my order form. I haven’t had a lot of time lately to elaborate on those, or to add pictures of my new pillows & tooth fairy pillows, but I will be doing that in some following posts. Most of these were things that had been requested by customers, and I finally just added them to the order form!
Here’s what’s new:
Pillows – Standard Shams & Throw Pillows to match your baby clothes, memory or t-shirt quilt. (pictures soon to come!)
Tooth Fairy Pillows – Adorable tooth fairy pillows made from your baby clothes. (pictures soon to come – this is just the cutest thing ever!)
New sizes – We now have the capability to do full & queen sized memory & baby clothes quilts! (King available on request!)
Minky backing – We’ve added minky fabric (you know, the super soft, plush baby fabric with the raised dots) as a backing upgrade for our baby clothes quilts.
Pictures – Add pictures to your memorial, memory or baby clothes quilt. Send us the digital images, or we’ll scan your pictures!
I will be adding more details in the days to come, but I just wanted to give everyone a heads up!
Hey everybody! I’m blogging!
I thought it would be fun to add a blog to my site, to give all my clients & potential clients & everyone interested a glimpse behind the scenes here at Jelly Bean Quilts. I’ll be blogging about my quilting, other sewing & web design projects that I’m always working on, various craftiness that goes on when I’m not sewing, and of course my family, community and whatever else I feel like! 
Hopefully you all will enjoy my nonsense!
By the way… my goal was to get this blog running ASAP, so it’s not visually exactly the same as my site. You probably don’t care, and it’s perfectly functional and fabulous in every way other than not being totally visually integrated. So, to the web designers & devlopers out there, my apologies. It bothers the web designer in me, too. I might fix it, and I might not. But I think I’d rather just blog!
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