Shabby Country Decorating & Quilting: Twin quilts and a New Home

So, we will be moving soon to our new home, our very first home the husband and I have owned and not rented!! It is very exciting but a lot is being done to it slowly, but surely. We are currently waiting for the roofers to put a new roof on it but because of rainy Florida weather the date keeps getting pushed back which is a real bummer. We were thinking of moving this next week but would rather have the roof put on it first before we move in. We are also getting new quartz countertops installed very soon to replace the old ugly laminate ones. Not sure of the exact date on that project either, but I am happy to say we got new laminate flooring installed that looks amazing. Makes the little house look more modern than the original white carpeting and tile.

(My daughters being entertained by a phone of course!) This is the living room. The laminate flooring turned out great. I love the dark and light variation of color. The color was called golden acacia. I liked pretty much all the acacia flooring i saw, especially the real hardwood tobacco acacia! Gorgeous stuff!

This is the only before photo I have which is dark, but you can tell the space looks better with the wood flooring. At least I believe it does, and with two toddlers and two pets.. carpet is a no-go!!

One of our next projects, will be to update the lighting in the dining room. It had two ugly florescent light fixtures, reminiscent of a bleak school room, but i ordered these vintage Edison bulbs and a few metal cage fixtures to turn the lighting industrial to match our rustic table and we may end up buying metal dining chairs along the way to complete the look. The entire house has builder grade light fixtures and not a single fan in any room. We will have to change them out over time and decide what we would like in each room. The house is a work in progress but I love that we can make it our own!

Speaking of making it our own, the girls will be sharing a bedroom in the new home, so they have twin beds and I wanted them each to have their own quilts to give each side of the room their own style in a way. For my youngest daughters recent 4th birthday I made her a pinwheel quilt and I let her pick her own backing fabric (which she ended up picking my little pony fabric of course) and I added a few pieces of baby clothes for a couple pinwheels that she had outgrown and some of the pinwheels were made from a baby fabric that was my grandmothers fabric, and sadly she has since passed away and it will be a nice heirloom piece for my girls and something to remember her by as well.

I had a rose muslin colored solid that i cut into 5 inch squares and i was able to use one charm pack i already had and then added coordinating colors of other fabrics that i already had. My daughter has a side dresser that has sunflower knobs so i thought the addition of sunflower pinwheels would be perfect.

Our cat Snickers seems to like the quilt top...

And this is the completed quilt on her bed. Snoopy our mini-dachsund loves it too. I quilted by using a free-motion foot and made spirals around every pinwheel block to give the pinwheels some motion. I liked the way the quilting really complemented the blocks.

For my oldest daughter I found a fabric line that looked so country, chabby chic and old time modern with beautiful roses called 'Roses and Chocolate' by Sentimental Studios. I bought a layer cake and laid all the blocks out the way i liked and sewed them together. It was an easy, quick, yet beautiful quilt. My daughter loved it. Here is a link to this very easy quilt tutorial Here!