The Weekly Make: 2011 CM2: Speaking of Baby Blankets

The Giberson clan has grown to quite an impressive number. In the past three years, the number of third generationers has gone from 0 to 5. So add parents, siblings, and husbands, and Christmas had gotten very expensive. So this year, we decided to draw names for present giving, and each person had a $50 limit. As it happened, Jason and Sadie drew each other. Sadie joined the family just 6 months ago. She slid gracefully into the world after just 2 pushes. (Megan is a champ birther. It took me 2 hours of pushing to get Judah out.) Sadie is just the calmest, sweetest, quietest little angel of a baby ever. (I think Jesus decided that Molly fulfilled Megan and Justin's racket quota and rewarded them with one of the most easy-going babies of all time.) She gets prettier and sweeter every day. She is 100% go with the flow. She is content to lay peacefully wherever you put her and even let you eat your dinner. She's basically a miracle of a baby.

See how go with the flow she is?

Since there are now 2 Benson girls, Megan has transformed their bedroom into girly glory, complete with pink painted birdhouses and a tree mural and mobiles with birds and flowers. It's quite lovely. So for Christmas, I decided to contribute to the decor by making Sadie a blanket to match the one I made for Molly's thunder shower. I bought a plain white quilt from Ikea and set out to make a duvet cover. I pulled out the remaining fabric from Molly's, and much to my dismay, I didn't have what I needed. The yardage added up, but it would require cutting and piecing, and any way I put it together, it just looked like I did it that way because I didn't have enough fabric. So I set out to the fabric store where I purchased Molly's fabric over 2 years ago, desperately hoping that they still had the fabric I needed in stock. And low and behold, miracle of miracles, they did!! So I did a little happy dance, got just what I needed, headed home, and sewed up this little blanket for little Sadie Joy.