Rainbow quilt

I'd made this rainbow quilt for a little girl before, and I've just finished another one for a little boy who's due to be born tomorrow!

Somewhere over the rainbow

Finished!

 Just in time to give to my friend whose baby is due any day now.. A little girl..

Lots of hair and a little boy

Bit busy lately, trying to do/buy all the things in the house that I haven't got round to doing/buying since we moved. We have visitors at the end of the month so what better excuse to finally get things done!

Apart from that, I've been cutting hair (for my Advent calendar)..

And I've finally started on my rainbow quilt (fabric bought and cut back in February!!).
Y seemed to like it, he went to lie down on it as soon as I put it on the floor!

He seemed to quite like my new fabrics (for the quilt and the calendar) too! Or maybe he was just tired..

What's up

I'm starting lots of projects and not really finishing anything.. I've been cutting lots of fabrics and doing some handstitching and now just need to sew things together.

                             Pencil roll #1, pencil roll #2, My Family frame for a little boy's birthday..

And my biggest project of the moment, an alphabet book for Y's first birthday (sorry, once again, colours on the photos are crap, the real colours are a lot more vivid..)

Again, a lot of appliques and handstitching that are taking me a long time..

In the meantime, my rainbow quilt fabrics are cut and waiting patiently in a corner.

Rainbow pencil roll

Here's a rainbow pencil roll I made for M - a bit of a botched job if I'm honest. There's so many things that aren't quite right with it but I wanted to finish it before picking M up from school and I did!
We put his brand new pens in it. And here it is in action..

I'd always wanted to make one of those and I'm quite pleased that I could use all my dotty fabrics. The only colour I didn't have was black so I used navy blue instead and it looks fine.
OK, got a few more of those to make for my niece and nephew and for my neatly lined up pencils obsessed sister (yes, the same one!).

Rainbow pencil roll seen here and here. Also, explanations in French here. I read the explanations but again, kind of did my own thing..

M "putting the pencils to bed"