Jacque Made: a place to share my creative side.

A friend asked me to make her a set of burp cloths and a taggy blanket for a baby gift. She wanted a jungle theme. I had a lot of fun looking at fabrics online (where I do all my fabric shopping nowadays). These are the ones I ended up choosing: an elephant, citron green scribble, and alligator print from Ed Emberley's Happy Drawing collection. I love them. I bought green minky for the blanket and some assorted ribbons from Hobby Lobby in green, bright blue, and gray. (Finding ribbons that looked jungle-y was harder than I thought it'd be. The geometric ones reminded me of the alligators and felt tribal for some reason, so I went with them!)  I love the blue birds sitting on the alligators' backs. And here they are all bundled up and ready to ship out to a sweet mama to be. I have to say that sewing for babies and their mamas makes me really happy. And looking at these adorable prints almost makes me want to have another baby! (Almost.)  ;)

My friend is having a baby boy. She told me some of the colors she was planning to use for his nursery were navy, orange, gray and turquoise. I had previously bought this adorable gray and orange fox ribbon from Hobby Lobby and thought it'd be a great ribbon to build a blanket off of.   I added in a few stripes and chevrons and was ready to sew!  Here's the finished product. I love minky. And navy minky in particular is so gorgeous. Here's the burp cloth set I made to match. It's not exactly the same theme but is at least in the same color wheel. The nautical map fabric is one of my current faves. I made a simple card to match with Martha Stewart stickers and tied 'em up with ribbon. Hope my friend likes them!

I made this set of burp cloths, baby blanket and paci clip and thought they turned out so cute. I'm in love with the fabrics. I tried to use funky ribbons that matched the style of the fabrics. Cute yes?