Crib skirt

I have approximately one bazillion projects that in a perfect world I'd have completed by the time the baby arrives. I've already lowered the bar on "Crafts I'd like to have done by August" and eliminated some gifts and projects I thought for sure I'd have time and energy to do.

So WHY ON EARTH did I find myself adding completely new crafts to my list last week? I have no answer.

When my mom and brother were visiting, my mom pulled out my sewing machine to work on the lanai curtains. Around the same time, I decided that a crib skirt wouldn't be a terrible thing to have in the nursery, but I didn't want to buy one.

Enter my remedial 8th-grade home economics sewing skills.

The sewing machine is a great machine, but it is older, has no manual and I am not the best seamstress. I sew things by hand, but I'm not a great sewing machine problem-solver. Since my mom already had things set up from the curtains, I convinced myself that I could handle this extremely basic project - as long as nothing came unthreaded or got stuck. Worst-case scenario, I wouldn't have a crib skirt. Or I'd have to wait for my mom to come down after the baby is born to help me fix whatever problem I'd managed to create.

I did some searching online and found a few basic crib skirt tutorials. I modified the easiest one a bit and set out to find fabric. It was on sale (SCORE!), so I felt even better about my possible colossal disaster.

The fabric and the unhelpful cat who was intent on batting at pins while I worked.

I bought a basic light-pink-with-white-dots fabric for the skirt part. Then I essentially followed this tutorial, and after working on it in bits and pieces for a few nights, the crib skirt was complete! It isn't the best piece of craftsmanship to ever exist, but it was easy, it isn't a disaster and I'm especially proud that I made it, remedial home economic skills and all :)