Sewing for Baby

With this baby, I did not have an ultrasound, we wanted to be surprised. I love to sew and create something special for the baby and this time not knowing, I think I went a little over board with ideas and projects.



I have been learning to crochet and one of the best projects for learning, I think is burp cloths and blankets. I tried to do each one with a different edging and I had a lot of fun looking up edgings online. There is one blanket with a set of burp cloths not here, they are in the wash so I haven't taken a picture yet (the night time turtles blanket my mom sent to me for me to do)

This first one was for Keieligh for when she gets to hold the baby, she has a blanket and pajamas out of the same fabric that my mom had made for her and she sent me the remnants so I could make something for her dolly and ended up doing this instead. there are two of this one


Knut got some burp cloths too for helping out, I made four, but sent two to my sister fer her little guy

Nolan had said that the burp cloths I was making weren't big enough to protect his suit shoulder from spit-up, so I made him this set of terry cloth and flannel. It is approximately a fat quarter flannel that says "I am a child of God" in different languages and then embroidered on the terry cloth.


When we arrived in Idaho last year, Elsa gave me this bolt of fabric that she had bought from a friend who works for Hancock's. It is like sweatshirt fabric with a soft flannel on the outside in a classic Winnie the Pooh print. We had decided on pajamas for me and after cutting them out, there was still a ton of fabric left. I turned to my absolute favorite sleeper pattern and made a coming home outfit that could be for a boy or girl.


I even had enough for a blanket, Mom this is the width of me doing that edging twice, and I thought I was being loose with the thread!


This is getting ready to come home, the pj's were nice and big and comfy for me and Cyrus wasn't complaining either.




Here's the other "either way" sleeper I made. We found a print with the same colors that said "I love Mommy I love Daddy" for the blanket and burp cloths, but Elsa made those.


This outfit was for if it was a girl. You can tell how much I wanted that to happen by the fact that I didn't make a just for a boy sleeper, even though I do have left over fabric from the other boys pajama pants to make one for him, I wanted to wait to make sure.

I found the butterfly fabric first in the remnant bin at Walmart and they had a piece to match, the plaid there too. I made the burp cloths first and then found it again a few months later to make the blanket and sleeper with a different contrasting fabric. I love the look of the mix-matched sleeper and hat.




This is my very first crocheted blanket. I found this yarn at the dollar store in California and I knew that I wanted to learn to crochet just so I could make something with it. I had found a pattern that said it was for this type of yarn and I got the hook it called for, but when I tried to make it, it was so big and loopy that I knew it wouldn't last at all, I've had previous experience with Knut picking out one strand to carry it by. I tried to make this three different times and ended up ripping out the stitches every time. I finally got a slightly smaller hook and tried again, and it worked! It's just double stitches with a single stitch border, but I love it. Knut tried to borrow it, he says he needs a new "holey" blanket, but we thought it was too pink for him. He'll get a new one soon, we just have to find the right yarn and pattern to make him one.