Photos: Gift-Wrapping Room

Today I cleaned a bit downstairs, emptying out three big boxes, putting a little round table in my gift-wrapping room (formerly my sewing room), then covering it with the ruffled skirt and square overlay I made for it many years ago. I was glad to find that skirt and overlay -- and glad I didn't cut up the skirt when I was running short of the fabric I used from Dorcas and Hannah's curtains that they had in their room, when I was making Dorcas and Todd's Baskets of Lilies quilt. The skirt is the same fabric -- I bought an extra panel of curtains to make it. When I ran short of the fabric for the quilt, I pieced two of the petals, and even used another fabric that allllmost matched. Where there was too much cream color and not enough of the flowered print, I used my Letraset Promarkers to paint in some flowers. So now I still have a whole table skirt.

The cleaning and emptying of boxes came about because I was hunting for a piece of white rib knit to use with the soft, pale yellow knit with the little diaper pins printed on it that I planned to use for a baby layette or two. I found not only the rib knit, but also a large piece of white thermal knit.

I managed to get not two but three baby outfits cut from that fabric, plus a 45" x 60" crib blanket. That marble table makes a good cutting table.  😊 The outfits consist of a long-sleeved onesie, cuffed pajama bottoms, cuffed booties, and a bonnet. I'm making matching outfits for Carolyn, Violet, and Keira.

I will line the crib blanket with a piece of the white thermal knit. In emptying those three big boxes, I found a 46" x 46" piece of pastel pink flannel, with bunnies and lambs all over it. I've just washed it, and it's in the dryer. I'll make a baby blanket out of it, also lining it with the white thermal knit. I might cut it into squares and add squares of some bright pink furry fleece I found.

I have a bag of stuff ready to go to the Goodwill... a load of Larry’s work jeans are in the washer... and I made an appointment for next Thursday with a quilt appraiser in Iowa; I'm going to have the Sunbonnet Sue and the Americana Eagle quilts appraised.

Tomorrow I'll get busy with the serger and see how many baby things I can whip up. Meanwhile, here's the gift-wrapping room with the little round table (and a miniature general store/birdhouse sitting on it).