A Boy's nursery

When I started sewing this spring, I decided that I wanted to attempt sewing my own nursery bedding for my second baby that is due October 1st.  Luckily enough my friend Melissa was having her baby first, and she allowed me to use her nursery as my starting point.  I learned a lot from doing her set, and I was eager to take what I learned and start on my next set.
I think we found out we were having a little boy around May, and although I am beyond words excited and so blessed to be having a boy, I was a little torn when it came to the bedding department.  I already had in mind what I wanted to make for another little girl, and I hadn't really seen anything out there that I currently liked for a boy, so I had no idea what I should do.
Then I went to Piece by Piece (http://www.piecebypiecefabrics.com/) a wonderful fabric store in Eugene. It took me a few trips, but finally I found what I was looking for.  A fabric called "Truck Stop" from The Alexander Henry fabric collection, and it was perfect.  It wasn't too baby, or too cartoonie, and it was just masculine enough! So Yay, I finally had a theme and the beginning of a color scheme. 
I decided that I wanted to use the Truck Stop fabric for the fitted sheets and small accents, so I still needed to find a few other fabrics that would compliment it for the bumper, skirt and quilt. I found the rest of my fabrics at JoAnn's.  Although I love Piece by Piece, you can't beat Jo's 40% off coupons on their already nicely priced fabric. I went with 2 main fabric colors: A blue quilted plaid that I thought would be masculine enough to take his bedding into the toddler years, and a chocolate brown that meshed nicely with the tractors on the sheet fabric.  I wanted to do something different for my accent color for the piping and binding, so I chose a sunflower yellow that goes with the whole construction/ road theme.
After talking to one of my close friends, and telling her about my fabric choices. She brought to my attention that yellow and brown were also the colors of pee and poo! Ha, so after a day or two of going over my options, I decided that a navy blue would actually be a better compliment to my yellow, Ha! So thanks Christina for your keen observation! (However, in my defense I still think my first choice would have been very cute and maybe even helped out in the potty training department :))  But I am really happy with the navy blue, and how everything turned out for my second attempt in the bedding business and my first attempt in designing bedding for a boy.
xo