Diaper Hanging Bag

My 31st completed sewing project for 2009!

This was a completely unnecessary project, but as I was organizing my new shelf today that Ben built me over the weekend, and making sure all the diapering stuff was just so, I thought "wouldn't it be nice to have a new diaper hanging bag that matched my bedroom".  So then I went off to my sewing room, found leftover fabric from other projects, and actually enough purple and blue fabrics from scraps from my wedding quilt (made 7 years ago) and put this together today.  

Was it the best use of my time?   I was supposed to mop the kitchen, and clean my bedroom bathroom today, but I will have to say it is fun to have something to spruce up my room, and I like that it matches.  Now I want to make some black curtains for my windowm, a black dust ruffle for my bed, and get blue or purple towels for Ben and I to use when we shower, so that when they are hanging in our room on the wall they match.  Sounds nice, right?

Matching Sunday Outfits

My 28th, 29th and 30th completed sewing projects for 2009!


When Prairie was born I had matching outfits for Autumn and Prairie to wear home from the the hospital as seen here. This time I decided to do matching outfits for the first sunday that we take our little boy to church. I finished Prairie and Autumn's skirts today, and then was able to finsih the vest for our little baby boy, that will go with his sunday outfit that I have already posted about. I still need to make a bow tie or neck tie out of red fabric for him to go with his sunday outfit. Ben is also hoping I can piece the scraps and make him a bow tie out of the plaid fabric so he can match the kids.

This is fabric that my mom actually bought my senior year of high school. I know that we had bought atleast some to make a bow tie for my friend, but I have no idea why we got so much. With the girls circle skirts, there is very little left, in fact I am going to have to piece it to make a bow tie for Ben. But I did get a pair of maternity pants out of this fabric also as you can see here from my last pregnancy.

Autumn's skirt (no modeling because she is still out of town)

Baby boy vest with his sunday shirt and black slacks (he has interchangable vests)

Prairie modeling the whole outfit. I had brand new red tights for both girls to go with the outfit, and I have some infant sized red socks for our little boy

Baby Boy Sunday Outfit

My 27th completed sewing project for 2009!



This project has been in the works for quite a while, and it was a lot of work, so bear with me, because I posted a lot of pictures to show all the details.

I had a good friend in NY that was very particular about dress clothes, and I think it has totally influenced me. Because since I knew I was having a baby boy, I really wanted him to have some nice clothes to wear to church on Sunday, and I want him to have real tying ties and bow ties (my next project).

Anyway it is really difficult to find dress clothes for infants, or they are really expensive. I haven't even been able to find patterns, so hence part of the reason this project was so intense, is I had to design a lot of my own pattern. I combined a couple of patterns and made up some stuff myself to get this design. I really tried to get the details to really look like a men's dress shirt. Anyway I am really pleased with the result and Ben was so excited for his little boy to wear it. Now to figure out little neck ties and bow ties.

Back view the vest on

close up of the vest and shirt (those are little white buttons that are actually snaps)

the shirt without the vest (cute little pocket is covered by the vest)

All the buttons, the cuffs, the vest and the shirt front

Back view with the vest off (it is a romper, the shirt does not tuck in, it is attached to the pants)

close up of the back of the shirt, with the yoke that men's dress shirts have

close up of the cuff (it doesn't actually button and unbutton, the button is just there for decoration)

the snaps in the crotch seam, for easy diaper changing, also I did the snaps so you can't see them when it is all snapped up, which i think makes it look a little fancier

So I think my older daughter will be happy. A couple of weeks ago when I was working tons and tons on the baby quilt, she asked me "what is more important mom, a quilt or church?" She thought I should be working on her baby brother's sunday outfit, not his quilt. Maybe I will post pictures of the quilt in a couple of days, I am just hand sewing the binding down, and then it will be all done.

Swaddling Blanket

My 26th completed sewing project for 2009!

I am a big swaddler and I like to have a special swaddling blanket for each child.  I picked this fabric out before I was even trying to get pregnant.  I had decided to make the 3rd baby quilt red and orange, and I thought this would be fun to go along with the red and orange baby quilt

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Baby Bean Bag

My 25th completed sewing project for 2009!



My good friend from college has made a bean bag for each one of her kids when they are born. They are really cute, and they look like they work so well with infants. Anyway she was nice enough to send me the pattern that she designed. I got the pattern in the mail on Monday and was so excited I cut out the bean bag that night from scraps I had at home. I have some upholstery fabric scraps from different recovering projects that I have done in my front room.

Anyway I finished the bean bag this morning. Prairie has been really excited about it. I actually finished the cover yesterday and she has been taking the cover around filling it up with junk. Now they I filled the liner with the beans, I told her not to open the zipper anymore. Anyway I am excited to be able to use it with our baby boy, and I am sure the girls will enjoy it too. Also I am excited because it matches the front room.

Prairie is fake sleeping here (you can also see the new couch cover my mom made for me while she was here)

Looney Tunes Bassinet Sheets

My 23rd and 24th completed sewing projects for 2009!

Please ignore my bad photoshop skills, this is the same mattress just with different sheets on in each picture

I bought our bassinet at a garage sale when Prairie was a few months old. At that point she was sleeping through the night, so she was sleeping in her crib in a shared bedroom with Autumn, so we really didn't use the bassinet that much, except for naps sometimes. Well it came with a sheet, but it has some stains, and I thought since we would be using it a lot, it would be nice to have some sheets that were new, or atleast that didn't have someone else's stains.

I was originally going to do a looney tunes applique quilt as the baby quilt for this baby, but then decided not to. But when I thought I was going to do that, my mom had found a leftover panel of looney tunes characters at one of her quilt group things. Anyway I thought some of the pieces pieced together would make nice sheets for the bassinet, so I pieced them together, and violia! I have bassinet sheets. I think Ben will be happy because he has been wanting me to do something with Looney tunes for all of our kids, so I have new sheets, Ben has looney tunes, and I used supplies from my house, a great project.

There is our bassinet all ready for out little boy. As of Wednesday February 25th I am 37 weeks and our baby is considered full term now, so I am really feeling the rush to be ready. (as a side note both of my girls were late, Autumn 10 days and Prairie 7, so I don't realistically think our little boy is coming anytime soon, but I want to feel ready)

Canned Food Wallhanging

My 22nd completed sewing project for 2009!

We found out late in the year that we had Ben's sister for Christmas. I had had this idea of doing a wallhanging for her sometime, but hadn't actually started it or anything. When we found out we had them for Christmas I really wanted to do this wallhanging for her. My sister-in-law does soooooo much canning. She is amazing all that she has stored at her house and she grows almost all of it in her garden. I thought this would be a neat wallhanging to celebrate all that work that she does for her family.

It is kind of an intense project, so I wasn't able to completely finish this before Christmas. I did complete the top, so she would have a pretty good idea how it would look. Ben requested a few weeks ago if I could finish this for her birthday (February 23rd). I wasn't sure because I have been trying to get a lot of projects done for our baby boy. Well I had some time today so I worked on it and was able to finish, phew just in time.

I am really pleased with it. I love the fabrics (my mom was nice enough to get these for me). I looked at some patterns for bottles online, but then ultimately made up my own pattern, and I am pleased with how it turned out. I have enough of the fruit and vegetable fabrics that I could make something similar for myself sometime. Anyway I am excited to have this done, it has been hanging over my head since Christmas, and I really like having projects done, especially with a new little baby coming, who knows when I will get to stuff.

Terry Cloth Changing Pad cover take 2

My 21st completed sewing project for 2009!

I finished the second changing pad cover, so I think we are set for diapering stuff.  I really need to finish our baby boy's quilt (I just have the binding left) and a couple of more outfits, oh yeah and a couple of sheets for the bassinet.  I am feeling almost ready for this baby.

Terry cloth Changing Pad Cover

My 20th completed project for 2009!

I got some terrycloth at Joann's to make a couple of covers for changing pad.  I am really happy with how it turned out and I have enough fabric to make a second cover.  This way when we have some little accidents, it will be easy to clean up, and terrycloth is soooo absorbent.

Changing Pad

My 19th completed sewing project for 2009!

I even moved the non skid pads so they were still centered on the new length and I also moved the straps so they were still centered

My big splurge for this baby is to buy a contoured changing pad.  But after I bought it I didn't like how long it was.  Then I checked it on the bathroom counter where I was going to put it, and it overhung the sink.  So my mom had the idea that I could take it apart and shorten it.  So I hijacked the changing pad and I am really happy with the result.  It fits very nicely on the counter, and it is still long enough to put Prairie's nighttime diaper on, so I think it will be plenty long for an infant.