Catching Up

I do have another quilt and car seat canopy completed and almost ready for posting. Bear with me as I play catch up. It's been quite a juggling act around here between a two year old pulling me in every direction and a number of babies that are due to arrive in just a week or two. I'm trying so hard to get my projects complete to open myself up for new projects. If you know anybody that would like a car seat canopy of custom made quilt or you yourself would like one for your sweet little prince or princess than feel free to email me or leave me a message on the blogger site. I can send out a social card to you or we can discuss colors and design along with delivery dates.

Please come back and visit Emily Kay Designs again where you will find new photos of projects completed. Coming soon I will be posing fabrics that I have on hand that could possibly make the perfect quilt or car seat canopy just for you.

Many Blessing,
Christina

Jacy Quilt

This was my first quilt after a small hiatus due to back surgery before Christmas. I had to get back into the swing of things, and while doing so I decided to try my hand at designing a quilt on my own. It needed to be very special since I was making it for my 7 year old niece. Before I sewed it and put the finishing touches on it I made sure to run it by her to make sure it was fit for a princess. I love that little girl so much. She was in love with it and couldn't wait to receive it. Her only real request was that it had pink in it so I won her heart.

I did a number of different things with this quilt that I had never done before. I didn't follow a pattern and it's bigger than I'm used to sewing. I'm used to sewing blankets for baby so I needed to make some adjustments so that it was big enough for a little girl. I also created some unique squares by using different fabrics within one another. I'm looking forward to trying this more frequently with many baby and toddler blankets to come.

Top Half

Bottom Half

Decorative Stitching

Project Haven - Car Seat Canopy

Right now all I've been doing is sewing new projects for friends and people that I know to get my name out there. I have a whole new heap of fabric that I've picked out at a couple different online fabric stores along with a couple that I've found from JoAnn's while browsing the aisles. I'm incredibly picky when selecting my fabric so I don't always find what I'm looking for at JoAnn's. I've always had better luck selecting fabric online where they are organized by collection and color. A lot of the fabric I have right now is based on what I think that the people around me would like, but that doesn't mean that someone I don't know won't fall in love with what they see here.

I fell in love with the fabric shown in the photos here and made this car seat canopy for a beautiful baby girl named Haven. Her Mommy is a girl in my MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) group that I quickly befriended. The colors just seemed to be made just for her and lucky for me I was right. She loves it and has found it to be quite useful through all of our rain.