Crib Bedding a few months late....

I started this project in December of 2010. After I had found out I was having a GIRL. 

I really started this project when Ruby was about 5 months old maybe.... 

I made the bumper pads in about 2 days. Totally beat myself up about that.Really? Why did I think it was going to be so complicated?!

My goal with this project was to make her bedding girly, and NOT baby. This way she (or I, like she cares) can enjoy it for a few years. And how could I not incorporate red into it? 

One of my young women asks me all the time what Ruby's name it. The other day I finally said, just look at what she's wearing, it's almost always RED. Well, not always. But of her 5 pairs of shoes, 4 of them are red. Totally not my fault! 

Enjoy.

Dust ruffle, this is the second idea, bought new fabric and 

used the red which was supposed to be on the bumper pads.

I didn't even end up using the original fabric I bought for the ruffle. I'll probably use it for another sheet.

Whole ensemble. I don't love the green on green. Bought the polka dot fabric for something else, can't even remember, used it for the sheet because I had it. 

The QUILT, the thing that brings this mess all together. The squares and circles are printed on the fabric. My grandma and I hand quilted it to look like it was pieced. I wish I had a better camera so you could see just how good it looks. The binding was also changed, I didn't use the original fabric I bought. I wanted so badly to do scalloped edges and put a great big stip of red around the entire quilt. Pretty sure if I had done that this quilt would have never been finished!

Whole ensemble minus weird green sheet. I put one side of the bumper pads in because Ruby was smashing them all up to see outside the crib. I really liked the 2 fabrics next to each other, wish I would have made it that way. 

 Bumper pads, again, moved to Ruby wouldn't smash them. The original idea was to put  a red fabric on the inside but I decided it was too loud. I think that's what ended up being the dust ruffle. I had to buy the pink extra. I think I went to 2 different stores and bought some of the fabric even on etsy. 

I think she likes it... :) 

Something funny about this line of fabric. This company came out with a similar line just as I was finishing up and it's called "Ruby". I don't like it nearly as much as this though. 

I bought some embroidery hoops to hang on the wall. I'm going to put all the extra fabric in those. Maybe by the time she is 2 they will be up. Who knows, maybe this will give me the inspiration to get it done!