Baby Bedding

I'm not sure if our child will have his or her own room, but they will definitely have their own bed. Besides a travel system, bedding was something I wanted to pick out before I knew the gender. I knew I wouldn't pick pink bedding if the baby's a girl, or blue bedding with sports/animal themes if the baby's a boy. I like simple patterns, nothing too busy on the eyes. So I set out online to find that. I'm not sure how many sites I perused, but it was more than a few. Of course, I found some really beautiful, awesome crib sets. I just don't think my baby needs $300 (and sometimes more) bedding. Leave it to me to like the expensive stuff the best. As for the sets in my price range, I didn't find anything I just loved. But I wasn't too discouraged. I still had some time.

Next, I turned to Etsy. Surely there would be people on there making crib bedding out of awesome fabrics...and there was. Plenty, in fact. There is some gorgeous baby bedding on Etsy. But, it's completely out of my price range due to the homemade aspect and the quality of fabrics being used. It's more than the manufactured sets...as it really should be. I'm sure it's worth it. My baby just won't be sleeping on any of it.

Then my friend Kelli, who is amazing at sewing, offered to make the crib bedding! Problem solved. I guess I will be getting some custom bedding after all. On Black Friday, we went to a few fabric stores in Shreveport to hopefully find something I liked. I really like brown, turquoise and lime together, and I figured that would work for a girl or a boy. At least I think it does. I like it and I'm a girl! We went to Jo Ann's first because I had a coupon. We didn't find anything there for bedding, but we did find a great, soft flannel that's brown with light and dark turquoise, lime, and white polka dots. We bought a couple of yards, and Kelli is going to make swaddling blankets out if it. The only bummer is that it was barely put on sale which meant I couldn't use the 50% off coupon. Shady Jo Ann's...shady.

Next, we went to Hobby Lobby. There, we found some fabric that is dark brown with small turquoise polka dots. I decided it would be the perfect fabric for the crib bumper. We then found a solid turquoise fabric that is the exact same color as the polka dots on the first fabric, at least to our eyes. That's what the bed skirt will be made out of, and it will be trimmed in the crib bumper fabric. You know, to tie it all together. So that left the quilt fabric. It will be a patchwork quilt incorporating all the different colors. It will have squares of the brown polka dot fabric, turquoise fabric, as well as light turquoise fabric and white fabric we found at Hancock's. It will be backed with white minky fabric. That way it will be super soft on one side. So the bedding doesn't have any lime in it. It ended up being brown with turquoise polka dots, dark turquoise, light turquoise, and white. That way, I can just get white sheets and call it a day. I think  it's going to be so cute! I can't wait to see it all finished one day. Thankfully, Will liked the colors and approved of the choices. Right now, I just have some fabric scraps to help me envision it.

It's kind of a dark picture. Crib bedding fabric on top, swaddling blanket fabric on the bottom.