Claire's Nursery Coming Together

It's been a process... feels like a long process... but Claire's room is starting to come together.   We had the room painted and got all the furniture some time ago.  But then there has been this list of projects to complete.  I guess I got into the DIY mode and thought I could do everything myself.  Well, not everything.

Several weeks ago, I made a bow board out of a cheap frame, some ribbon and the Owl fabric the coordinates with the bedding.

I also found these iron decor pieces at Hobby Lobby and bought the letters to spell her name.  Ryan did all the painting and hung them over the bed.  We LOVE the way it turned out.

A couple of weekends ago, I started making her curtains.  This is the same fabric as the bumper.  Mom went to the Premier Fabrics store in Jackson and bought the last 7 yards, much to the sadness of another pregnant lady using it in her nursery.  I got blackout fabric for a great price at Hobby Lobby and Hancock (had to get it in two cuts... HL didn't have enough).  After inspecting how Cason's curtains were made, I realized I could do it myself.  Just a simple curtain made like a pillow cover... sew the two pieces of fabric right sides facing each other on 3 sides, turn inside out, top stitch the 4th side.  The hardest part was ironing, pinning, lining everything up, etc.  I was actually sweating while making the curtains... so much fabric to deal with.

I got one panel done the first night...

Then switched gears to recover some baskets we found at Hobby Lobby.  I didn't love the original covers so I just cut them apart and used the pieces as my pattern.

I made 3 new covers out of scraps of bedding fabric and a yellow remnant that coordinates with the bedding.

Things were coming together nicely...

 

And I finally got the second panel done this weekend.  I got smart and used the hardwood floor in the loft instead of the carpeted game room to lay everything out and measure.  And moved my sewing machine to the air hockey table where there was more space to put the extra fabric.  The hard part of panel #2 was trying to line up the fabric so that the print "matched".  It was lots of iron, measure, remeasure, pin, measure, laser level (that's right, I used Ryan's laser level to cut my curtains), measure and then finally cut and sew.  Oh and iron some more.  I think making curtains is more about ironing than anything else.   Anyway, the second curtain is done and up.

Oh, and we got a bookcase too.

What's left?  I'm still waiting on the bedding and still need to hang this painting that my friend Margaret made.