Pink and Orange Ornament

I wanted to make an ornament to match the airplane quilt. It is orange and pink, but it turned out that two of the three fabrics I used weren't in the quilt. They were in an earlier pink and orange quilt though. I was hoping to find an elephant or airplane button to put in the center, but I couldn't find anything appropriate to match, so I used a letter brad for the baby's initial. I also used my machine's alphabet stitch to stitch "2014" on the bottom band of the ornament.

Try making one yourself with this tutorial. 

Airplane Quilt

Julie likes airplanes, so she wanted an airplane quilt for her baby. There were many options for airplane quilt blocks, but most were too cutesy. I was pleased that Art Gallery Fabrics offered the Fly with Me pattern, which is a more stylish design. Surprisingly, except for the wing piece, I didn't make any changes!

Usually I bind quilts with the back of the quilt, but this quilt really needed a white binding and since I didn't want a white back, I did a normal binding for the first time.

Finished size: 38" x 52"

ETA: My mom says the baby loves her quilt! Tyco certainly does! Julie woke up to find him making himself comfortable:

The cats have otherwise not been interested in the actual baby thus far, but who can resist a quilt?

Grey and White Elephants

Julie wanted some elephants to match her elephant mobile, so I pulled out the elephant pattern I used for the pink and orange elephants. I scaled the larger pattern down a bit, so they are about 8.5" x 6.5". They are not stuffed, but instead have a layer of quilt batting in them.

The white one is my favorite.

They hang on about 2' of ribbon. I added button holes to the end of the ribbon for flexibility of hanging, but also just to practice using the button hole foot on my new machine.

ETA: Glad I added the button hole for hanging, as Julie has repurposed one of the elephants for hair bow storage:

You can also see the pink chevron pillow I made with fabric leftover from the airplane quilt.

Jar Pin Cushion

Now that I have a little more space on my new sewing table, I decided to make a jar pin cushion. It really makes sense for the storage aspect, because I keep a ton of pins in my flower pot pin cushion. However, it's never enough when I'm pinning a quilt, and on a daily basis it's rather full.  

Easter Cards

I had purchased this paper for a scrapbook layout and then changed my mind and never used it. It seemed appropriately springy for Easter cards though. Happy Easter!