39-ish weeks ago I started a Pinterest board for this room and I have been collecting ever since. The only hard and fast rule was that I didn’t want anything matchy-matchy. Ethan’s nursery in America reeked of co-ordinates and was totally themed floor to ceiling from Babies-R-Us. Eight years on and I took my time, mixing colours and patterns until this little room began to feel just right. I love it in here, the light is amazing, it’s warm and it’s full of personality.
Mum and I had been searching for The Cot Quilt for a while and were stumped, everything handmade we were seeing at markets, although beautiful, was a little too traditional for this room, and everything in the retail channels was just too steeped in the ‘baby’ themes I was trying to avoid. I wanted something that would grow with bubs, and bring some modern, bright solids to break up the white furniture. A wallpaper post on Facebook gave me the inspiration I needed and I put a request out via Instagram – could my wallpaper vision be turned into a quilt? Two amazing ladies replied. The quilt pictured was a commission by Christchurch master quilter Deb Robertson {find her Felt store here} and it is seriously amazing, I can’t even imagine how many of these she could sell in Auckland’s trendy home decor stores.
The second offer was from our dear friend Tara in San Diego {who actually will be Baby Hippos God Mother – Surprise Tara!}. I’m not sure if she has ever quilted before but she and her Mum made a quilt which is currently winging it’s way across the world! So this lucky baby will actually have two super cool quilts, I’m thinking one for a play mat and one for his bed.
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