Jungle Nappy

Another nappy I'd forgotten I had made until I went to put it on Noah this morning.

This one is made out of navy flannelette inner, terry padding insert, PUL jungle patterned outer (so this one's a 'proper' all in one).

About 6mths old now.

Dave's Sheep Costume

Dave had his preschool play on Monday afternoon (17th Dec).

I got a note home saying he could be a sheep, cow or donkey. Well he wanted to be a sheep.
So armed with 1.5m of white fleecy fabric, a day and a sewing machine - I got to work.

Having never made a sheep costume I wondered how exactly to go about it! First I grabbed a pair of his tracksuit pants and used that to trace a pattern onto tracing paper. The pants are pretty simple, elastic waist.

Next was the top - I have never made a long sleeve top before. I used one of Dave's singlet tops to draw the pattern for the body and then added some sleeves. I made the front of the body wider than the back as I was going to cut it through and add buttons, but in the end I just made it button up at the top.

Next was a head piece of some sort. I couldn't remember what sheeps heads looked like so I googled some pictures then somehow whipped up a hood type of hat complete with ears.

So, here is a picture.

Woops!

Woops! I forgot I even had a blogspot. Silly me.

Well now that I've remembered, I am happy to announce that I am 4 months pregnant (tomorrow). Pretty exciting. I've been really sick not only with morning sickness but 2 lots of gastro too. Hopefully that's all behind me now though.

Here are a couple of photos from my NT Scan at 13 weeks, 3 days.

Another Nappy

This afternoon I got around to making another fitted nappy.
This time I used an old flanalette pillowcase for one layer, an old terry cloth nappy for the middle layer and also for the 4 layers for the insert, and my husbands woolen jumper that had a hole in it as the last layer. I am going to wait until I get some white velcro, plus I didn't really have enough black left anyway.

Nappy

After deciding to switch back to cloth nappies (for my boys, not me!) I stopped buying disposables and have now run out. But my lot of fitted nappies I ordered have not yet arrived.
Dilemma!
So tonight I have sewn one lovely nappy using 2 flat terry toweling nappies, and the starry fabric is from an old dressing gown! I only had a tiny a little bit of velcro, and it was black (white would have suited better I know).

I am very happy with how it has turned out for a first try!




<---- Front View




















<---- Inner
(I have also sewn in 4 layers of toweling for extra absorption)















<---- Back View














I would put a photo of my son wearing it but I took so long, he fell asleep! Perhaps tomorrow...

Keroppi Frog

My sister-in-law loves frogs, so, inspired by Keroppi, I sewed her this:














I just printed out a large picture of Keroppi (found on the net) and cut up each part to use it as a pattern. It was all hand sewn and took ages. It's stuffed with cotton wool and wadding and would double nicely as a small cushion.

Shirt Reconstruction

I found a mens shirt that I really liked, and it was only $3 in Big W's end of summer sale!


So I picked out an extra large and just sewed it in. Now it's my favourite shirt.