Gifts for Baby Milo

I made these for baby Milo Martin, soon to make his appearance. His mama is filling his nursery with birds, so I made him the bird mobile from Spool and I think it turned out really well. I like it so much I might make one for myself!

This little quilt coordinates with Milo's car seat, which happens to be the same style and color as the one that Emmett used. (Nice choice!) I wanted to make something a little less traditional, and was inspired by this quilt by Film in the Fridge. Playing with hexies was so much fun! I used some of the Heather Ross pieces I got off of Etsy for the hexagons and some Kona in Light Gray and some yellow stuff from Hancock...in retrospect I would have paid attention to how I cut and pieced the polka dot hexies, but I was in a major time crunch so I stopped going for perfection and just went for done. I machine quilted it at the very last minute and eyeballed the whole thing. It is amazing that it turned out so cute because I seriously had my doubts.

Blerg

So I have been very busy lately. Lot's of cleaning and organizing, but none of it for me. The result is that I am burned out on all forms of housework but my own house, or at least my three rooms, are in shambles. I am trying not to care because I really don't want to do anything about it right now. Emmett is also not sleeping through the night anymore (thank you bad dreams), so I am tired. VERY tired. So instead of cleaning last night, or working on the sweater for Emmett that is taking FAR to long, I added an ironing board and fabric scraps to the mess and made two of the cutest little girl aprons ever out of some cupcake dish towels from Ikea (I'll get some pictures up soon). It was very cathartic to make something for some of the little ones I love, something I know they will love too. I might even finish Emmett's sweater today....