What Have I Been Up To?

No, this isn't a big mess.  I was taking inventory.  You see, for the pasts several months, I have been making and gathering things for my upcoming grandbaby.

 

I made a warm chenille blanket and a tumbling block quilt. 

 

 

Sturdy baby shoes for those first steps.

 

 

A baby caddy that is portable and filled with all sorts of lucious smelling baby products.

Tiny hangers for all those tiny clothes....

A soft book for quiet places and times.

A big kitty to support baby's back while sitting and to play with.

The start of a reading library to stimulate the mind and foster a love of reading.

For the first few months, we were all sure this baby was a boy.  Sonographers seemed to think it was a boy, but then they finally got a clear picture.  She's a little girl!  So we shifted gears from blue to pink and purple.

 

I have three other grand children and made them each cozy quilts.  This one is a chessboard.

 

 

This one is slashes of red, white, black, and gray for my grandson.

 

And a four patch for my granddaughter.  This was the first meander quilting I've done and I loved it.  It reminds me of Persian lamb.

 

 

On each quilt, they will find their names somewhere, stitched into the quilt.

We live two thousand miles away, so I don't see them often enough, so each quilt has a note tucked inside that tells them everytime they wrap up in their quilt, it is a hug from me.

Almost everything is wrapped and ready to mail. 
As soon as that is done, there are more baby things I want to make:  a lavender and purple quilt, a few receiving blankets, and a couple of bibs, plus a few things I want to look for at the baby store.

My daughter in law has been as busy as I have making all sorts of things for this baby.  She's very creative and has done some beautiful things.