For my sweet baby to be...

In no way related to scrapbooking, but I just want to show off the baby quilt I just finished. I started with adorable Debbie Mumm and other quilting fabrics, and a rough plan. I purposely didn't wash any of them (or the cotton batting) because I wanted it to shrink after it was quilted, giving it sort of an old-fashioned handmade look that I love. I'll show you what I mean in a minute. The piecing and quilting was all done on my machine, but the binding... miles and miles of binding...


was handmade out of the same flannel that I used for the back, and then handsewn to the quilt. And I have the holes in my fingers to prove it.

Here's the quilt finished, but not washed...


And after it's washed.


I don't know if you can really see the difference, though it's very obvious when you hold it. Here's a closeup...


I don't know, maybe it's knowing this will be my last baby that's doing it, but I'm just having such a great time creating things for this little guy. I have one sweater almost finished... just need to sew the arms on, and another one about 1/2 knit. Good thing I still have another month and a half. All this other stuff is definitely cutting into my designing. Oh well, the cycles we go through, I guess. Now if only we could agree on his name!