Nursery Sewing Projects

A few fabric projects for the nursery included a monogrammed pillow, a seat cushion for the rocking chair, a foot stool pouf, and curtains. 

I bought a premade pillow from HL and painted a monogrammed letter on it. While it's not comfortable to have on the chair while rocking, it does look nice. I free-handed the letter and used a metallic bronze acrylic paint. I may change the paint color one of these days, but I think it's good for now.

I found a duck cloth cream and gray striped fabric for the cushion of the chair. The chair by the way is the same chair that M was rocked to sleep in way, way, back in the day. I knew we had to incorporate the chair if we could even tho a certain husband really wanted to buy a glider. 

I made a paper template and double foam cushion for the seat. I then stuffed with loose batting to fill out the corners. I made it right enough that no toes were necessary. This project was much more difficult and it not quite complete in my opinion. I probably would've bought something in hindsight. The fabric I chose frayed all over the place and there is a chance it could fall apart at any moment because of the instability of the fabric(despite my 'serging the edges' and  double stitching each seam). I plan to stuff with additional battingn to give it more structure sometime soon because upon use, it's just a really big pillow with no major support which doesn't make for a good rocking chair foot stool. It also turned out about 3 times the size I envisioned. Here was my inspiration piece..

Here is the finished product...

This cornice was my second attempt. The first one I used plain gray calico but didn't get batting and tried to use loose stuffing. End result looked a little like a rain cloud. So when I found this fabric on sale at JoAnn's, I decided to give it another go. So glad I did, bc it turned out awesome. I bought quilt batting as recommended and used a staple gun working from center points out. 

For the curtains, we decided upon blackout panels even tho we have plantation shutters. I just felt like anything I can do to help with light and sound insulation to help G sleep will be a good thing for all. The only decently priced panels I found were navy. So much blue, too much in my opinion. So I bought a gray and cream ticking stripe fabric and attached it to the top of the curtain leaving a wide stripe of the original panel showing below. This was an easy refashion and in my opinion adds a little depth to the curtains. 

I had plans to sew a crib skirt, but I had trouble finding fabrics that I liked so I bought a nice striped one from Target. 

It's a PBK knockoff but looks great. Post on crib and sheets to come.