The Craftiness of Em

Well, here it is...that part of pregnancy that makes me go bazerk and clean, clean, clean, organize, organize, organize, and craft, craft, craft. I believe they call it "nesting." I am in fact building a nest. With Maryn, my major project was making curtains for the bay window in our family room (you can view two of them in our current front room) and of course purchasing loads and loads of baby stuff. Now that I have all the baby "stuff" I need for this next one, I have lots of time on my hands. My task is to clean out the room for the baby and find someplace else to relocate my scrapbooking stuff to. I tackled part of the closet today and I felt pretty good about it.
A few weeks ago, I decided to actually make decor for Maryn's room. I kinda stole the basic idea from my sister in law, Allison, then altered it (a lot) for a little girl. Here are the originals she did with trees.

The print and the product.

I did flowers in pinks and yellows for Maryn. And I added buttons for the center of the flowers.

Here is the big picture. I think it's an 11"x16". I just used muslin for the background, then cut out each piece. Then I used stitch-witchery to keep things in place while I did some hand stitching around the edges of the petals and for detail on the leaves. You can't see that well from the photograph.
Next I made three 8"x8" pictures with individual flowers. I did the same things here with the button centers and stitching around the edges and for details.

This last flower was the hardest, but my favorite. It's like the far left flower in the big picture, just different material. I tore strips of material and twisted it, then stitched it down into a swirl pattern. It's hard to see the detail from the picture, but I thought it added a lot of dimension.

It's probably a little goofy, but I needed something to fill up the wall space in Maryn's room. It was always so barren and boring. Now, I really like how it looks. It all just took me 9 months to finally decorate her room.