Baby Crafts

I've made a few crafty things for the baby girl over the last few months but I was kinda saving them up to post about all of them at once.  But then I did the nursery post and half of the things I've made went into the nursery.  Oh well... here are the last few things I've made that I haven't gotten around to posting about yet.  The first one I did was just a quick Boppy cover.  I have one that I used with Lucas and it's gender neutral so I'll probably still use it, but it never hurts to have two.

I just took the old cover and traced it out onto new fabric.  I had to figure stuff out a little bit with the zipper in the back, but it turned out just fine.  It's a pillow case so it doesn't have to be too exact.  I used a 24 inch zipper, and they are surprisingly inexpensive at Joann's.  I think it was maybe 40 cents more than a 7 inch zipper.

The next project I did was to make a car seat cover.  I didn't have one with Lucas (I have no idea why) but they seem like such a genius idea and pretty much everyone has one so I figured I had to make one.  I used this tutorial, but made a couple changes.  I cut my fabric a little bigger because I wanted to make mine symmetric so that I didn't have to figure out which side was the top and which was the bottom when I was attaching it.  Also, I didn't eyeball my corners.  I made a compass with some string and a pen and I drew the curve on there.  My dad will be so proud!  Since I made it symmetric I only had to trace the curve once, and then trim all the edges at the same time.

And I don't have a serger so I just sewed mine with right sides together and then turned it inside out.  Here are the final dimensions just for reference in case you want to make one too.

Then I attached the straps right in the middle so it can be put on either way.  I did not add any embellishments to my straps.  I can't decide if I want them or not.  Sometimes I like things to be simple.

 Look at how cute that fabric is.  I love it!

 I had some left over fabric so I decided to whip up a little applique onesie...

with a ruffle bum!  How cute is that?  I think I will pair it with some tights or those leg warmer things.  I can't wait to play dress up with my baby.

I've been working on making lists of the stuff we need to pack in the hospital bag, a schedule for Lucas for my mom or whoever is lucky enough to get to be our middle of the night phone call, and a couple freezer meals for those first few weeks.  I think I'm pretty much ready; all that's missing is the baby.  You try to make sure you have everything ready early - just in case - but then what do you do for the next few weeks until the baby actually comes?