Last weekend, my cousin got married. I had purchased a few items for them, but wanted to also give them something homemade. Well, it ended up being partially homemade. I found some hand towels at a dollar store that had an ugly picture of vegetables on them. I sewed some fabric over the bottom, and voila – beautiful hand towels! And thrifty – which makes them even better in my mind.
This fabric is so yummy.
I think I will make some of these for myself, as well!
Everywhere a sleep sack! I have recently seen two other bloggers do some fabulous sleep sacks. Love them! I especially love that neither one of these ladies used a pattern either. My kind of sewing!
Check out Trula’s sleep sack here.
I absolutely love this one, made by Lindsay at The Cottage Home (seen here on luvinthemommyhood) from a men’s dress shirt — such a cute idea, and NO zipper!! She has a full tutorial here, too.
Here in Wisconsin, it can go from winter to summer in about a day. When that happened this year, I suddenly realized that my six month old was in desperate need of a summer sleepsack. This realization came, of course, when he woke up covered in sweat because his fleece sleepsack had suddenly become an oven.
I knew it couldn’t be that hard to make one, and lo and behold, I had a long-forgotten zipper in my sewing supplies, along with a massive amount of jersey knit fabric. Oh how I love jersey knit fabrics (more of those to come… seriously, a lot more).
Since I didn’t have a pattern (and probably wouldn’t use it anyway), I used his fleece sleepsack as a model.
The finished product!
(fabric from JoAnn’s)
Here is my mini-tutorial (I say mini, because I made it so quickly, I didn’t take any pictures of the steps):
When I was pregnant with my youngest, I realized that my current purse was no longer going to cut it. I hate carrying around a diaper bag and a purse, so with two kids in diapers (because potty training was definitely not happening before baby number two came along), I needed a solution. Rather than spend my time searching for the perfect purse, I decided to attempt to make my own.
It ended up much bigger than I had thought it would be. But since I tend to sew like I cook (no pattern, no recipe…), I can’t say I’m too surprised.
I used three coordinating fabrics from Joann’s (with my coupon, I only spent $25 and bought way too much fabric – I see a matching diaper changing pad in my future…)
Inside, I made four large pockets (they are large enough to hold a wipes container) and two elastic cup-holders, that are the perfect size for sippy cups. *Note to self: take pictures of purses before using and becoming incredibly disorganized!
Overall, I’m really happy with how it turned out – not too shabby for my first attempt at a diaper bag purse Mary Poppins bag that can literally hold everything you’ll need for the next three days.
I am a cloth diapering addict. I admit it. I love pretty much everything about it, including the sewing I can do to go along with it.
A few of the cloth wipes I made. Two squares of flannel sewn together with a zig-zag stitch. I could have finished them off nicely, by folding the edges under, but when I made them, I was more interested in doing it quickly.
I love Katrina’s pattern for making diaper covers. These are a couple I made from 100% wool sweaters I scored at a thrift store.
