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For my newest baby I was itching to start making him or her something. And I had been patiently waiting to buy suitable fabric for him or her until I found out what kind of baby I was having. 

Here’s the story as it relates to fabric and my impatience to begin a project. 

I have a friend in St. Louis who is a nurse practitioner in a women’s type health care setting so she was hoping to give me an ultrasound as soon as I could make a visit. After Christmas we made a visit and we scheduled a time to could go find out boy or girl. I laid on the table for over an hour as my friend tried to get a peek at my baby’s nether regions. But baby wasn’t giving it up… but our (very small) hunch was boy bulge. 

So, the next day I happened to be fabric shopping, ahem, and purchased some lovely, lush orange and softly subdued gray fabrics. At this point I figured orange and gray for boy OR orange, pink, purple, and gray for girl. I could wait no longer to buy at least some fabric for my baby, ha! And I commenced making orange and gray hexagons. 

A couple of days later, my friend was able to give us another scan. At which point the baby seemed to be a girl. Ninety percent girl, so my husband still held out hope for a boy (we currently have two girls and a boy). We stopped by T@rget on the way home and bought her a few things (and kept the receipt just in case). I started compiling pink and purple fabrics and added pink hexagons to my mix. Ok fine I also added more orange and grays. My mother and I went to a store that gave me eighth yard cuts, so I got an awesome variety. 

When we returned to Houston, I went to my official BIG ultrasound, where we found out “for sure” we are having a baby girl (Hooray!). And thus I officially cut out 400ish orange, pink, purple and gray hexagons. 

My hand work from the couch has begun. 🙂