Getting Ready For Baby

Our first grandchild is on the way and I am sewing up a storm. We know it's a boy and he should be arriving at the end of August.  I have blocked off my calendar and plan on staying close to home during August and September.  I don't want to miss a thing.

 

A few weeks ago, I had a fabric dyeing workshop at my house.  You can read about it in this post.  I had a bunch of dye left over.  The MX fiber reactive dye is stable in solution for a couple of months, but it does start to loose potency over time.  I thought it would be fun to dye some onesies.

 

There was a package of 5 at Target that was a mixture of long and short sleeve.

 I did leave one white.I'm going to try my hand at sewing some sleep sacks using them.

But I thought it would be fun to use one as a onesie with a bicycle applique. 

I cut it out of the cutest fabric called Cruizin' by Barbara Jones from Henry Glass.

I fused it on and blanket stitched around it. 

 The background color of the bicycle fabric should be turquoise. This isn't the greatest photo. 

 

I also used the bicycle fabric to make a boppy cover.  If you don't know what a boppy is, I didn't know either until a couple of months ago.   It is a pillow for nursing.

 

I want to save some surprises for the mother-to-be's shower.

In a couple of weeks, I'll share it all with some links and tutorials.