Archive for April, 2008

Productivity (somewhat)

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

I bought the knitting needles that I needed to make the baby blanket.

I bought shrinky dink plastic and I have this shrink plastic ring tutorial.

I bought earring-making materials (will share those later)

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Crafts to make for baby

Monday, April 21st, 2008

baby-paper.jpg

No, I’m not pregnant but my friend is. Here are some things that I’d love to make for my friend/her baby:

What I need: time, lots and lots of time.

If I had more time and more skill with a sewing machine, this diaper bag would be so lovely! This crafty person made hers from an old dress but I’d love to make it using a blue/grey colour that I know the mom-to-be loves.

A baby blanket, preferably knit from supersoft wool and a very easy pattern, would be ideal. There are a lot of options for easy patterns out there, and I do have time to do this. I really must get cracking on this! (Update: I have found the perfect pattern that uses yarn that I already have on hand: Hoodie Baby Blanket)

A diaper cake for the baby shower’s centrepiece is a must! Have you heard of these? You roll up little diapers then stack them together vertically to make a layered “cake”. Some more elaborate ‘cakes’ have baby rattles, pacifiers, bibs and other small but necessary baby things nestled in the cake. Some good instructions for this masterpiece are here or here if you’d like a nice illustrated tutorial. You can find a very impressive gallery of variations of the diaper cake here.

I’m currently trying to figure out what I want to do for the invitations. The grandmother to be is a florist and very artistic so she tends to like themes, and the baby room has a theme but I think the parents want that to be a surprise for guests to their home after the baby is born so we can’t use that theme. Is it too cliched to use the basic blue theme? It is a boy we’re expecting, after all!

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