Baby Blanket, Pillow and Spread

We had been planning a surprise get together of frens for the Best Buddy for a long time, to wish them luck before the most important day of their lives... I had also been trying to stitch nice stuffs for her, as iam really really excited about she expecting, this is going to be my first hand experience of being a local Masi to a Kid... many of my friends have had kids by now, but most of them have been in pics alone, this kid is going to be the first one to whom i will be the active local Masi :) ...  

I wanted to make something special for this kiddo.. i have always loved the idea of sets of clothing's, or accessories, or add ons for kids, matching boots and mittens, matching bibs and mittens etc, and my favorite of it all has been a well matched set of Baby pillow, blanket and spread. I had this fabric, which i guess was not enough but , was a neat combination to try out this set, so eventough i was sure i didnt have enough fabric, i went ahead and made this cute looking set, 

Baby Blanket : 36*40 inches 

Baby Spread : 30*36 inches

Baby Pillow : 12*16 inches

I did some random patchwork to make the stuff look cool, and iam pretty impressed with the outcome of my first set. Manna also loved it and i was super happy, she was a sweetheart to mend a few stitches that were wearing out, but overall it was a happy ending... :)

Baby Boy Onesies

Yesterday was the last day i had to stay alone, and i had not created something very substantial until now, had 10s of patterns lying in my bag :D well lazy me, what else to say.

My favoritest outfit for infants is the onesies... i so so so love them, they are such a comfort wear, definitely adter the jhaplas i say ;), i really wanted to try these, and had found this really nice pattern , and am totally in love with the pics in this post, super cute d kiddo is. So my onesie turned out really well.. but i realised it a bit late that i was attempting a 6 month olds pattern, so i dont really have a taker for it now, but big deal, it was fun making this one...

The good thing is i have learnt how to attach the binding, and i wish to explain the technique someday here.

The not so good thing in this one was, my fasteners are not attached really well.. but it looks cute.. 

No Scratch Baby Mittens

This last one week was such a pain for me, Garg was out of town for a week , at times i feel i need the me-time, blah, but boss, this last one week was such a mess, iam so so so dependent on him, it was so boring without him around, i hate cooking for myself, so for a week, i was having couscous and masala oats all along, it was getting boring , but hey... :)who cares... well , so i had all the free time, i tried my hands on these cute looking mittens, whosoever invented this idea, to save kiddos from scratching themselves, these no-scratch mittens are a bliss,  

I did a very short cuttish version of mittens, but this one is a nice tutorial on mittens . I am yet to master the art of stitching the elastic properly, and yet to find a good tip to do it quick and easy, so for now, this not so near version of it... :)

Baby Bibs

Okie , remember the 1st time i was starting to get into the josh of sewing, didn't have a sewing machine,  and had cut out this bib patter , and in this wierd kind of fabric, it was a t shirt kinda material of cloth. Well people make sure that they get thier hands dirty first on cotton fabric, to learn sewing, to get your hand well versed with the machine but hey, i end up trying the most complicated things in the begining, i didnt even know how to make the pipings, and yeah , i started stitching this bib, and it was such a messssss... i have started using that one for cleaning purposes, else a look at it wud have been fun, finally i tried it again, and this time it was not all that bad.. so heres the outcome. My stuff doesnt look very inviting, but, i see these 2 sites, with nice patterns, and good instructions.

1. Free bib Patterns

2. The Best Bib : And this one is indeed the best bib i have seen so far..

And then i tried a few more, the one below, that bow is stuck there to hide on of my sewing messes :)

And this is my fav so far, tried my hands with the pretty stitches my machine has, and this looked awesome...

Another Jhapla

I have got some nice baby print fabrics , and cant stop myself making these cute lil jhaplas.

Baby Jhapla

I kept wondering what should i call these , sleeveless tops , sleeveless shirt, etc, umm , well then i realized, that it did have a name and very commonly used when we were kids, and yes these were called jhaplas, the most comfortable thing, in lines of the onesies, i have seen indian kids, and all my cousins wearing.

I remember my cousins dressed in this and those triangular diapers , well i guess it used to be the need of the hour in such hot and humid climates of north and east of india. The most comfortable thing a kid can get in winters.

I used the same baby kimono pattern as the previous post and just omitted the sleeve , and made the neckline a lil bit deeper. Thats it, quick and easy jhaplas... now i need to make speghetti tops for myself on the same lines :) Now that will be fun... it looks easy, guess will have to try it.

Baby Kimono

So there will be this whole lot of baby stuffs coming up in my posts... a small disclaimer, me making these  tiny ones coz 1. they are the easiest to start with, 2. yeah i have many good frens going thru that wonderful phase of their lives... i feel like making these tiny ones as they seem to be the best gift i can create now for them... and be part of their happiness...AND not coz iam expecting or planning for a baby or whatever... Well this disclaimer goes directly for my aunts and a few other crazy people with this crazy thought... :) so the first complicated sewing attempt of mine was.. this baby kimono . I followed the Martha Stewart Baby Kimono step to step , one doesn't need any other instructions, its the best tutorial one can get for Kimonos... 

Hey i totally  love the fabric and color combinations used in the martha stewart post, they are so much fun , and perfect for kids... iam not investing on fabrics right now, let me get myself easy on the machine first...