Bed Rail Redo

Above is the after, below is the before. Ugly huh? This is my bed and I leave these bed rails on..for me. Well one side is for me the other is for whoever is sleeping on the other side:) I wake up often and find a child in my bed and Jon in the other room. I got used to the railing after having Emily in my bed when she was born. She rolled off the bed more than once and hit the floor so since then I have used the railings. Now I have to have them because I have to sleep with 3 pillows on my side or I will be SUPER grouchy and these pillows will fall off during the night when I turn. Not with the railings! Pillows saved. Jennifer sane. All is good. 

Ignore the red splotch from my throat spray. It's a pain to take off a dust ruffle...

Quilt is this Scrappy Quilt blogged here.

Snake nursing pillow is from this post.

I used a linen fabric for the bed rail.

again, ignore the red throat spray leak:)

This is what mine looks like when the adjustable rail is in the smaller position. It doesn't look good. That would be because I didn't make the new cover tight enough. I eyeballed the measurements too much. 

I used Velcro on the end pieces so I can get it on and off to wash.

Before and after. 

If you'd like to recover yours, I have made a little tutorial. You can find it up top, under my header. Click on the tutorial tab. I hope it works for you but just know I wasn't super accurate when making it.

Nursing Pillow Cover Redo (a snake)

Before my German friend Connie moved she gave me this long nursing pillow (in case I had another baby). This kind of long nursing pillow is very common in Germany where as in America we mostly see the Boppy. But the cover on it was HIDEOUS (see below). Just horrible. Doesn't match anything and so devoid of all personality. So after seeing this snake I knew exactly what I had to do! I started out wanting the whole thing striped but then decided the majority of it might look better in the cotton/linen fabric I had used on the bolsters since this snake lives mostly on my bed (picture with Frank). I love it. He turned out perfect in my eyes and so much better than the yellow cover below! If he should migrate to the couch which he did via Ava while typing this then he won't look so out of place. The fabric is the same on both sides so if you flip it he has stripes on the other side.

To make the pillow cover I turned the old cover inside out, ironed it flat, traced it into 3 parts (middle, and the two ends) just like the original cover had. I then took my paper pattern and made the new one. I inserted a long zipper where the outer arch is just like the original.