Zara has two cousins (and 3 second cousins) who were born within a month of her. My brother and his wife welcomed their first baby--a girl--on August 24th. Zara followed a week later on August 31st and my sister had her third child--her second boy--on September 21st. (And my other sister just announced that she's expecting her second next year.) So for Christmas this year I decided to make everyone a diaper and wipes case. I used a tutorial from Make It and Love It, one of my favorite crafty sites. It's not the best tutorial, but now that I've made so many of these things, I can whip them out in under an hour. I love quick and easy projects that can be finished in a day.
These don't use a lot of fabric so they're a simple project to do with your scraps or other fun fabrics that you're not quite sure what to do with yet. I made the one on the right side for myself. I just couldn't help myself.
The insides. I actually started working on these quite some time ago (I did the one in the center during the summer) but I had just never finished them. But I got them all done and sent off before Christmas. I was insanely proud of myself.
Well, I had so much fun finishing that project (finally!) that I decided I wanted to do another quick and easy project. And since I've got this really adorable little baby now, who's suddenly very interested grabbing and holding onto things and shoving them into her mouth, I wanted to do some simple toys she could play with.
So I turned to Make It and Love It once again and found tutorials for cloth blocks and cloth teething rings.
I made 6 inch, 5 inch, 4 inch, and 3 inch blocks using lots of fun, vibrant fabrics. The 3 and 4 inch blocks are easier for Zara to hold and play with now.
Here she is with her 3-inch block clutched tightly in her hand. Next up, the cloth baby rings. These were another pretty quick project, but I think I stuffed them with just a little too much fabric because they were kinda a pain to sew together. And I broke two needles in the process.
Luckily, black fabric hides a multitude of sins.
And Zara certainly doesn't seem to mind my less-than-perfect sewing projects.
She's just that awesome. Also, she really will stick anything into her mouth. At least these are easy to wash.
2 comments:
I love those blocks. I think I might try to make a few for Seth (probably after Brigham goes back to training and I have more time). And thank you for sending me two diaper pouches. I use one for Seth's diapers and the other for Anna's, it makes it so much easier to find the right size diaper for the right child.
Cute!! I'm jealous of your fabric market...that's some awesome fabric!
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