My first bedding set done!!

Well, I have been taking pictures of all my projects the last little while to post on my blog and start writing again....and I am up before the baby this morning, so here I am. Back in 2005 I bought the material for making a rag and levi quilt which I posted earlier on my blog. I made it a California King size for my in-laws bed at their cabin. When we moved last Nov into a new place I moved 4 boxes of levi's. I told my husband that each time we move I am going to eliminate the amount of stuff that we move and so I knew that if I was going to finish the rest of the things I had planned for the bedding I had to do it quick. So, I spent a whole week last Dec cutting up all the pants in preparation for making a bed skirt, shams and maybe a window covering. Then this week we went to my in-laws cabin for the week. I packed up my sewing machine and my projects and was determined to not leave without finishing. So here is is!!! I am super super super excited!!!!! It turned out so good.
For the bed skirt I saved a fitted sheet from our King size bed that ripped in the last couple months. I cut out the rip and made a seam. It is perfect for the fabric across the bed.

It is a very fitted bed skirt. I thought that that would look better than ruffles, pleats or a gather with extra material on the corners. I couldn't believe that it just fit, I thought that it might be to small after I got there and saw that the metal frame poked out a bit in the corner. It is snug but nice. You can't tell in the picture but it comes off the floor an inch. I like the binding I put on. I tried to use that material to tie the bedding together. It is the fabric on the edge of the quilt, bed skirt, the shams and the window covering. Thank heavens that Walmart always carries the same materials over and over again. That is where I bought that fabric and I am glad that I did. The quality of the fabric is horrible.. I could never get the fabric to cut straight on the pattern and it is super thin and the threads in the fabric snag easy, but it was a cheap a binding and that is good for me.

Here are my in-laws fixing the bedding for me to take a picture. I thought that this was an awesome picture. I pieced the shams together and then used some plaids that I bought for the quilt and didn't use for the backing. Next time I should use a pattern to figure out the measurements. The shams end up bigger than I thought that they should. However, I like them and they work. We also bought them that picture of Abraham Lincoln for Christmas four years ago and I still love it!

Well.....I have never made a window covering and I came up with how to do it by simply thinking through it. It turned out sooooo cute! I had everyones' in-put while I was sewing it and adjusted accordingly. I should have take a picture of the backing. I bought some plaid flannel black fabric a few years ago that I keep moving and couldn't believe that I bought it and I finally found a use for it. It made me super happy.

So, after finishing the bedroom...they asked if I could make one more window covering for the kitchen and here it is, with the best picture of my daughter and her grandparents that we have so far. She is only three and a half months old and she is looking so big :( But, that is how it goes. You can barely see it in the background, but that is perfect.
Keep watching, I am going to post the baby room pictures hopefully this weekend and my new quilt top I made this week!!