New Blankets for the Twin Beds

This summer Wes and I painted the girl's bunkbeds purple. I love them! I love how great they look with the purple curtains and the girls cute purple chair.

But Novalee's blanket was pink which is great. I think pink and purple are lovely colors. However I can't really stand them together.

Anyways, I decided to make matching blankets for the girls that matched better with the bunkbeds.

So I took the girls to the store and I told Novalee she could choose any fabric she wanted. OF COURSE she picked out (what I thought was) the ugliest colored fabric and OF COURSE it had to be blue, NOT purple.

Try as I may she didn't budge and what can you do after you already said she could pick out ANY fabric?

Well after thinking about it for a while...couple of months (but who's counting) I finally decided to sneak in the color I was really looking for.

I used this pattern.

The progress went amazingly fast even with this little helper.

Yep she's pretty proud of herself.

I did try and distract her with markers.

It might have worked out better if the markers were washable.

Here's how the blankets turned out. The two blues were Novalee's fabric choices. :)

I needed a way to tell them apart, so Novalee's has two butterflies on the corner.

She was so excited about the blanket! But of course was disappointed that she couldn't use her pink one at the same time.

This is Sadie's.

And here they are together.

I love how clean and put together the room looks with the matching blankets! Now we just need to convince Sadie that the big girl bed would be more cozy for her than her crib...