Working on Emmalee's Room

It all started with this crib bumper. I walked into a children resale shop and spotted it across the room. Up until that point, I hadn't found anything that I even remotely liked. But, I knew I had to have it. They didn't have any of the coordinating bedding, just the bumper. It was only $8 and they were having a 25% off sale. So, I snagged it for $6! I was so excited!!
The tags had been cut off, so the chances of trying to find the rest of the set online seemed slim-to-none. But, I took a shot and Googled "patchwork crib bumper." The Land of Nod was the first match and I thought, "oh that would be nice if it came from there." I clicked, scrolled, and almost fell out of my chair. My "perfect" crib bumper, that I scored for $6, was a Land of Nod $80 bumper! And they were still selling all of the matching pieces. Unfortunately, the matching pieces were also expensive but they offer complimentary fabric swatches. I requested them and had my mom do the same. We ended up with 30 -3 in fabric squares of ALL of the fabrics in the patch work.
So, this brought me to tonight:

I started my first quilt! Well, I'm not actually going to quilt it, it's going to be the front of a duvet.

My Mom was going to make it all for me, but I got too antsy today and had to go borrow Angie's sewing machine and start it myself.
Last night we bought coordinating fabric to border the squares on the front and a deliciously cozy bump fabric for the back. They also have fabric that I'm going back for to make the curtains. But, I'm doing one thing at a time.
I took advantage of having the sewing machine here and tried one of these as well.

Just cut out from an old t-shirt, sewn together, and added a cute bow. Depending on the amount of hair on her head, I can see a lot of these in our future.