Mama Makes

My little sweet pea was already two months old before I got around to sewing her any clothes, and now she's three months old before I'm getting around to blogging about it!  (I did crochet a little dress for her before she was born, but she outgrew it before she was four days old.)  My sister Elise did make her a dress that I loved, though: Elise also made her headband.  Isn't it cute? These pictures are from July 2, when she was three weeks old.  I loved the dress for its ease of getting on and off of her, and of course the cuteness factor.  The pattern Elise used is Simplicity 1794. She let me borrow the pattern, but it turns out some of the pieces are missing!  My guess is she has them pinned to fabric for another dress somewhere in a pile of projects.  I've done the same thing.  So I went to JoAnn's to buy my own, but it was out of stock.  No problem, I can reverse-engineer the pattern from the finished dress!  So tha...

Love pacifiers or hate them, sometimes they are essential.  My sweet pea loves her binky, as we call it, and we currently have five of her favorite brand.  Although I can only ever seem to find two or three at any one time... One of the first things I made for the wee one was a strap to connect her favorite binky to a stuffed elephant toy/rattle, in an attempt to keep track of it - the theory being that the elephant is harder to lose: I made it with two widths of ribbon, with the narrow decorative ribbon stitched down on top of the plain wide ribbon.  The unadorned portion at the bottom wraps around the rattle: I made it so it's removable from both the toy and the pacifier, so that I can change the toy or still use the pacifier without the toy attached. I found this to be useful, as she would frequently pull the binky out of her mouth just by flailing her arms around and accidentally pulling on the ribbon.  So when we're at home and she's just lying ...