My first idea was to make a little baby dress. But then.... I remembered how tiny newborns were. How on earth I was going to sew such a tiny outfit. And the fact that babies grew so quickly meant that it would probably end up being worn once or twice.
For these reasons I decided to go for something more practical - fabric storage bin. Who doesn't need one?!
In the past I had made one fabric bin with baby feet applique in blue (here) so this time I could make one in pink (or coral in fact) for a girl.
I wanted to add something else to the present so I stitched up a hanging ornament for the baby room. The idea about this came when I saw a hanging moon ornament from An from Straight Grain.
To make the ornaments, I laid two layers of fabric with some polyester waddling in between and followed the shapes I had drawn on the fabric with a decorative machine stitch. Then I trimmed the excess fabric and waddling. It worked better than I thought it would.
I attached strings and some beads. I added the beads in an attempt to take the attention away from the little knots I had to make on the strings. I hope that they are not so noticeable.
Baby gift mission completed!
Now I am in a process of sewing a duvet cover and a pillowcase for my son's bed. Half an year ago I bought some cotton fabric(I wrote about it here) with the clear idea to make it into a bedding set and I finally got to do that. But I do it with a really slow pace. Today, all I managed to do was to machine stitch the buttonholes. Tomorrow I hope to get the chance to sew the buttons.
And before finishing the post I would like to share with you some beautiful words I read tonight in a book given to my son at school for home reading. It is about a mummy monster who goes to the little monster's bed and thinking it was sleeping whispered to him :
" I love you my darling,
I love you my Small,
But there's so much to do in the day
That it's hard to sit down and to make enough time
To say all of the things I should say.
And it's funny, but now that you're sleeping
And everything's quiet and calm
The words seem to be much more easy to speak.
You're everything I always dreamed of
You've got so much beauty inside
The way that you smile, that you laugh, that you dance
Makes my heart want to sing out with pride.
You live as though life's one huge present
Unwrapping a bit every day
That's just how we should be living, my love
And look at you showing the way!
And sometimes I know when I scold you
You feel that I'm being unfair
But please understand that it's just out of love.
There are things in this life that can hurt you
They come to us all - that I know.
But they all give us chances to learn, darling Small
And they all give us chances to grow.
So when you get knocked down, my sweetheart
Look up at the sky without fear
For sometimes we need to be flat on our backs
Before starlight begins to appear.
And please, above all else remember
Keep love in your heart, little one
Reach out to the world like a beautiful flower
Stretches out to the warmth of the sun.
It's the only sure way to be happy
The only sure way to be free.
Believe in yourself and believe in your dreams
And you'll be what you dream you can be.
My beautiful, wonderful, glorious child
You light up my world. "
The little monster heard it all and drifted to sleep with a big smile.
Very touching and heart-warming tale (at least for me). Unfortunatelly, my son who is four and a half couldn't get to the point of it. Partly because english is not his first language and partly because it probably sounds boring to him. He was more interested in the illustrations and kept interrupting my reading asking me other questions.
By the way the book is called "I love you, little monster" by Giles Andreae and Jess Mikhail.
