Yummy! Easy and very halloween!
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Adorable dresses
Shannah from das kaninchen send me these lovely old patterns! Thank you very much, Shannah! You made my day!!
Diapering
Since a couple of months my two-year-old is potty-trained. It seemed like the logical thing to do, since we ran out of diapers a while ago. Not for long though, as there are only six weeks left till the new baby will be born. This time I’m gonna use cloth diapers instead of paper diapers. Amy from A Little Busy did some cloth diapering 101 posts on her blog, and I’ve decided to give it a try.
I saw this fabric basket in the Oxfam shop a while ago. When I first saw it, I couldn’t help but thinking “Great idea, I can make this myself at home from the burlap bags we still have lying around somewhere!” But then I realized it probably would be better to buy it and in doing so help out those poor women in Vietnam who made it. Anyway, there’s a better use for those burlap feed bags lying around, as Maya describes in her Sack Hack tutorial!, and even more recycling projects!
The painting is a screenprint from ‘Biet’, a painting from Dirk Eelen, the same artist who also made the painting in our living room.
I painted this old cabinet white (after saving it from our neighbour’s attic). This will be baby’s little corner before he gets its own room.
Baby wrap
For those of you who got confused in the last post about how many babies: there is just one baby in my belly! No twins here!
And for this ‘one baby’ I made this soft and cozy maxi-cosi blanket:
The pattern is from the last knippiebaby. You can wrap the baby in this blanket, and still fasten him in his carseat.
“Oh no, not thát fabric for my baby-brother” cried my eldest son when he saw the hearts…I think it’s cute anyway…
And for those of you who think the baby on the picture is my newborn baby: no he’s not yet born! It’s a porcelain doll I made 15 years ago, but he’s perfect for modelling my babystuff.
Colours of Autumn
I made some outfits for the baby. It looks like I’m going to have twins. I sewed two little trousers and two little t-shirts because I didn’t know which colour to choose. I thought making two sets would go as fast as one set. But those press-buttons – aargh – it always takes me ages to get those at the right position. I even added a little piece of fabric for extra strength so the fabric won’t tear apart when opening the buttons.
A few weeks ago, I knitted a bobble texture hat. I found it at Ravelry. I knitted it first in the softest baby yarn out of my stash. But I didn’t like the colour. I prefered the yellow bobbled hat Merguerite made. I found that lovely mustard yellow yarn. The longies can also be found at Ravelry.
Who said I hadn’t been busy for the baby?
