Getting Ready for College

Two weeks ago Hannah came home from her summer camp job. We were all glad to see her. The two weeks flew by in a whirl wind of activity. Having not decided the colors of her dorm room meant we had a lot of work to do.  The first decision was what type of quilt she wanted. She finally decided on A Trip Around the World pattern. Next we spent an afternoon in Dothan shopping for fabric and pricing items for her room. It turned out to be a fun girls day out. I learned how to make a pillow case. Hannah couldn't believe I'd never made one before since it is usually a beginning sewers project. Here is a picture of her quilt.

Here is a picture of Noah trying out Hannah's pillow case. I let him know I thought it looked great on him.

Next Hannah wanted me to make her a caddy for the side of her bed. There was not a pattern of what she wanted but she did find a picture of one she liked but with minor changes she wanted done on Amazon. She I had use my depleting math skills to figure out a pattern for this project. I was pleased with how it turned out. It gives her plenty of room to put her books in it, a water bottle on one side with two small pockets on the other side and two pockets across the front.

After I finished this project, Hannah wanted a caddy to go over the refrigerator to store all her plates, cups, napkins, and silverware. Unfortunately, once again there was no pattern so I had to create one again. I wasn't sure if her roommate would want to use the other side of the  refrigerator for something or if she'd like for the caddy to go on both sides. After stressing over this I finally decided if she didn't want to use it Hannah could just fold that side up on the top and went ahead and made it. Once I got it made I thought "OH, NO!!!" the plates are not going to stay. Talk about stressing at 1:00 in the morning the day we will be leaving to take her to school. I went and got plates from the kitchen and tried them out. Thankfully,  it was a great size for plates and not too wide so they wouldn't be all over the floor. Here is the finished project, hanging over my cutting table.

 The other side is the same.

While I was working on these projects, Hannah was busy making a throw rug for her dorm. She spent hours making pom poms. I made a few one evening while she was working at the theatre. Another first for me. Not sure where I was when these basic lessons were going on. The rug turned out really nice and soft, but she did not think I was funny when I suggested she make one for my room.

Another day of shopping, a quick trip to Mobile to drop off a van load of things at my moms (so we all can go to her induction service at Springhill), drilling holes in her flip flops and building dividers for her lap desk storage section and she is finally ready to head off to school, I hope.? I don't remember needing so much stuff when I went to college