Alphabet Quilt

I made this Alphabet quilt a couple of years ago, long before I even decided to start trying for a baby. I didn't have anything in mind for it, I'd just learnt how to appliqué and wanted something interesting to do with that skill. Letters are interesting shapes! It will have a purpose when my little lad is a bit older.

I hand appliquéd each of the letters, then machine pieced everything else together.

It measures about 30" x 35" overall. I love doing a bit of appliqué, I find it really satisfying.

I admit to being super lazy when it comes to prepping for patchwork. I don't even pin or baste the appliqué patches to their backgrounds properly before sewing them. I just hold them in place and hand fold the seams as I go. I'm astonished it ended up as neat as it did in the end! I did use templates to cut out the letters though. I made my own just by printing off a font I liked in a large size and cutting them out. Super simple.

It's a bit of a mish-mash of colours as I was just using up random scraps from my fabric stash, 

but I don't think my little lad will complain. 

Blue and Purple

You may have noticed I like drawing stars. It's true. Here's my latest star onesie in purple and blue. Because boys can wear a purple and girls can wear blue.

It goes nicely with my other star onesies, I seem to be slowly developing a whole range of them!

 

All Stars

I do love a colourful star design. So I drew one, then another, and another. 

I drew these very freehand but I think the slight wonkiness adds to the charm. 

There will be different colour variations of this to come soon as I am still addicted to drawing stars.

Little Star

In baby news, my little lad slept through for the first time last week at 3 and a half months old and it was amazing! I don't for a second believe we've magically cracked it, and it would have been extra nice had Mummy managed to also sleep through, but it sure is an improvement on the waking every 2 hours to feed we were doing until not so long ago. 

I find it awkward to talk about my baby's developments and milestones among baby circles, since it either seems to descend into who has it worst or a my baby is a genius competition. It always seems as though one person hasn't slept a wink in 28 years, while another person's baby came out of the womb signalling in semaphore while whistling some Mozart. We're probably somewhere in the middle. Sometimes my baby sleeps well, and sometimes he doesn't. Either way, he's a little star. And with that in mind, here are some more little stars.

I like this particular star themed onesie because it is so colourful. 

And I could use almost any range of colours I like on future ones.

There's something really therapeutic about drawing lots of stars. I've already made a long sleeved version of this design for my son since I enjoyed it so much. If he keeps on sleeping like this, hopefully I'll manage a whole lot more.

Rainbow

I think this might be my favourite hand drawn baby onesie so far. It's probably because I got to use all the colours on this one.

But who doesn't like rainbows and chevrons? I think I will be making some of these to keep.