Birth sampler / announcement from scratch

 I have done quite a few birth samplers, usually by combining elements from various pattern books with a tweak here and there to make them more individual.

This time round I has something particular in mind once I had seen a picture of the nursery, I could not find it.  I was sure I had used it before, then I thought about it and it was probably 20 years ago  and I could not find the pattern.

However it was quite stuck in my head, so I decided to try and design what I wanted from scratch. So out came the graph paper.

And the coaster, well it was the nearest circle to where I was sitting when I started and I wanted a curve.

For a moon

As a seat for the baby, in  a robe. (that had some later adjustments)

 Name and my first thoughts for stars (they would not last)

but I had a plan, I had some material thanks to my friend 

Link to the material

So that was progress.