I Hate Sewing...

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Currently I am working on finishing the crib rail covers for the baby's crib. The front one is done and already tied onto the crib but I still have the two sides to finish.

I have already covered them with the new fabric (I am reusing the crib rail covers I made for my daughter's crib way back when) but now am on to the really sucky part- making the ties. I cut sixteen pieces of fabric tonight (eight ties on each rail cover) and of course my foggy brain contributed to me not cutting them the right width. I worked around my incompetence and the ties will just be skinnier than the ones I made for the front cover. I'm sure the baby won't mind. I started pinning the ties and hopefully will get that done tomorrow night. Then another night this week, probably after I make the kids' trick or treat baskets, I will sew (by hand because my sewing machine petrifies me) all sixteen ties. Then on yet another night I will attach said sixteen ties to the crib rail covers and will be done with this darned project I started.

Once I am done the crib will look adorable and I will only have a couple more things to finish up in the room before my baby makes her entrance into the world. Man, I hate sewing....

Too Much Work...

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Don't you hate when you start a project thinking that it won't be a big deal and then once you are into it a bit you realize that it is way more work than you anticipated?

I feel like that now with the crib teething rail covers that I am making for the baby. Holy moly, what a lot of sewing I have to do!

I thought that it would be easy because I am just covering the old teething rail covers I made for my daughter with new fabric. Little did I know that sewing the fabric on is not an easy thing to do and then to top it off I have to make new ties- lots and lots of new ties.

I can only console myself with the fact that the crib will look beautiful when I am done. If only I weren't completely terrified of using my sewing machine...

One Room Down, Two To Go...

I bought a bunch of fabric awhile ago so that I could make valances for three of our rooms and some other odds and ends. I have been working on the computer/my daughter's playroom which included a slipcover for an ottoman and tow valances and I finally finished tonight!

Here is the ottoman slipcover. I have never made one of these before and it was a bit harder than I though it would be. There are some adjustments that I could make but I am so over making slipcovers right now. I am still very happy with the way it came out though.

This is what the ottoman looked like before I covered it- really ugly. My husband brought this monstrosity home when he bought the chair because it was so cheap he couldn't resist buying it- I'm cheap but I think I would have left this thing at the store.

This is the room with the ottoman slipcover and the two valances that I made (don't mind the spots in the picture- my camera stinks). I know the walls are pretty bare but I hesitate to put much on them because this is the room that my daughter plays in and I have a fear of her somehow knocking a picture off the wall and it hitting her in the head (crazy, much?).

Here is what I have left to do:

Family Room- large valance (length of three windows, small valance (one window) and two pillow slipcovers.

Dining Room: large valance (length of three windows) and some kind of a curtain for the bottom of the fish tank holder.

This other stuff will be a breeze to do. I really wish I had done the slipcover last because I was seriously working on it for a month- well, looking at it for a month and dreading working on it.

There is nothing like hosting a holiday to kick your butt into gear!