Within A Quarter Inch

mama's pillow cases...

My mother made these pillow cases for my own baby room 36 years ago.

I love them.  They need a little love themselves, some of the fabric is worn through - but of course, because my Mother is me and I am my Mother (don't tell anyone that I have admitted to that fact, please) - she saved all of the scraps and now I have them.  They are kept in their own storage bin labelled 'fabric from mummy' and I will repair these gems and then I will make something great from those fabrics...

Or maybe in 36 years I will just give them to Sarah...

I think I only noticed the awesome piping at this very moment!

Babies Room Bunting

bunting, originally uploaded by Within A Quarter Inch.

I made this (inspired by Pam Garrison in a somerset studio issue) for the babies room before they were born...

You can see more detailed photos here

Let us all remember to....

ABCD...

I love this embroidery of the alphabet.  I made it while I was pregnant and it hangs on (one of) the babies nursery doors.  I used crayons to color in the images and then stitched away...  Ahhh - back when I wasn't so exhausted after dinner and had a little something left in the way of energy.

 

And just above that is...

The previous post was of the crates that I turned into shelves...

This is an actual shelf that I hung above those crates. The house has some of the miniatures I have made and those bottles were inspired by a Somerset Studios issue and that bag contains a bunch of the stuff that is sticking out of the top! Who knows when you'll need some brown weedy looking stuff, right?