Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Last minute Baby Gift

I was thinking on Saturday that my friend Leesa had been pregnant for a while now and must be due to give birth in the next month or so. I contacted her and found out she was due on Tuesday. Crap! I am so unorganised that I hadn't managed to find / make a present. I didn't want to just run to the shop and buy something, so on Saturday night I started trawling the net for baby patterns. The only pattern I found that I liked was this bib pattern.

Dysfunctional Bibs

Of course I had to add a little irony so I used Dysfunctional Family by Michael Miller for the front and plain white fabric for the back. I used less than a fat quarter of each fabric to make both bibs. There was a pocket on the original pattern but I couldn't see the point of it. They are newborns - it is not like they need somewhere to keep their pocket money or a snack for later. If anyone can tell me why there is often a pocket on bibs I'd love to know.

I wanted to give more than a bib to each baby but I couldn't find any other patterns online that I liked. Then I suddenly remembered that I own a number of magazines full of patterns. Success! I found a very cute and easy Size 0 Swing Dress pattern in Sew Hip Issue 9. It probably won't fit the twins until they are 6 months old but that will be just in time for summer.

Baby Swing Dresses - Spring and Autumn

I used Apple Dot Autum and Spring by Michael Miller for the main fabric and a plain cream cotton from my stash for the contrast. I made the bias binding and used my awesome bias binding foot which made attaching it a breeze.

Leesa gave birth to Rose and Kate this morning and I hope to go and visit them in the next day or so. Hopefully they will like their new Voodoo Rabbit wardrobe additions.

Ky

7 comments:

  1. What supercute pressies! I don't get the whole pocket thing either. I also leave pockets off babies pants and shorts. It's a whole lot of extra effort, when they're likely to just fill them up with dirt!

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  2. Those are really sweet presents! I love how you made the dresses in the same fabric but using different colourways.

    As for pockets in bibs - I never found a use for them with my kids. Maybe it's just an aesthetic thing? Or maybe it's for a dummy/pacifier?

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  3. Those little dresses are so cute! Beautiful gifts

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  4. Absolutely gorgeous. Just love the fabric you choose. By the way the pocket you see on baby bib patterns is to collect the food, crumbs etc etc. I think its a bit of a waste as most food either goes in their mouth or on the floor!

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  5. Cute!!! Almost want some beeebies so I can dress them in cute stuff like that :)

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  6. Beautiful :) Love the fabric you used for the bibs
    ;)

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  7. They are just gorgeous! Love the apple print of the dresses!

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