Revisiting the Past

Meet Ben Franklin. Some list discussion about a childs school costume reminded me of this. He had a wig & glasses too but they were at school when I finished this up. They grow sew fast....He's in 7th grade now.....

THEY FIT!!

Miss Leanna wearing one of her cloth dipes. I have 16 now in size small. I am planning to sew a Medium this week cause she should be just on the border of fitting them......hopefully I can complete my 2 dozen in the next size for transitioning. Then if I sew a diaper a day I'll have my stash in no time. I hope......

My TLG (diaper) Bag

Our church nursery requires everything be labeled so it sounded like a good excuse to make a custom embroidered diaper bag to me! This is the TLG bag from the sew forum. I did this entirely from stash. It could have used some stiffer interfacing but it will be light duty so I'm not too worried about it.

The pink linen and the batik are both from the EFQ co-ops last year. The lining is a yellow broadcloth from my old quilting stash. Embroidery is one of the built in fonts on my Innovis 1500D

You can't see it in the pix but there is a decorative running heart stitch on the top and the two horizontal cross peices. I used a varigated pink thread that almost disappears. My intent was for it to be really subtle and the truth is I wanted to stabilize the SA on the linen since they were ravelly without dragging out the serger. It worked!!

OH and I found that waistband stabilzer works great for straps like this!!






View inside with a couple of diapers & wipes in one pocket and the wet bag in place. I used yellow PUL to do the wetbag with a pink zipper and pink touchtape. The pocket I sorta guessed at since I had no directions for an elastic top pocket. I sewed the hook tape on the bag lining to hold the detachable wet bag. I'm not doing a changing pad cause they won't need it in the nursery.

Crib Shoes

These are from the CT pattern. I had some elastic issues that I think I've fixed and they were really pretty simple. Gotta use a leather needle tho or you get skipped stitches

Easter Sunday

was wonderful. The church was packed. Leanna was 2 mos old exactly and as you can see slept thru it all. I had hoped to have a shot of her awake but nope....Maybe next year.

Road Trip!

This is Leanna at 8 weeks. We took our first trip to Ky to meet her big brother. She slept thru the baseball game and the trip to Baer Fabrics but enjoyed looking at all the new stuff in the hotel room.