With the anticipation of our new little girl we’ve been scheming how we’re going to rearrange bedrooms, acquire the needed furniture and all that.  Once she’s 4 or 5 months old Eva will get to move in with Brenna.  Right now Brenna has a full size bed, a dresser, and a desk in her room with absolutely no room to add a crib,  and the crib is still being used by our climbing monkey of a two year old.  The solution I’ve dreamed up is that we’ll make a twin over full bunk bed for Hunter and Ian and a twin size loft bed for Brenna.  That way we won’t have to buy any new mattresses.

To get ready for a new bed we naturally decided that some quilt making was in order.  Brenna and I browsed simple quilt patterns and fabric together and I gave her full creative license.  The only stipulation I made was that whatever pattern she chose needed to be simple enough that she could sew the blocks with minimal help from me.  She chose the Juice Boxes pattern from Cluck Cluck Sew and a smattering of fabrics from Amy Butler’s Soul Blossoms collection.  I modified the pattern just a bit.   Since it was for 6 inch squares she would have needed to make 150 or so of them– so we enlarged it to 12 inch squares.  48 of those were much more doable.  I did the cutting, she did all the sewing of the blocks, I did most of the pressing, and then I trued them up.  It took a couple of months, but the blocks are done!

I’ve actually got the top all pieced together and the back made too.  I was hoping to have it done for her birthday on Monday (11 years!!), but I don’t think getting it basted and quilted by then is very realistic seeing that I do have to do school, clothe, and feed people.  We’ve got a good start, though!  And great memories of collaboration will be harbored in the finished product forever.