Adventures in Sewing: More Baby Gifts

For a baby to be named later ... arriving in late April.

The gift bag ... can be reused for dirty clothes or toys. :)

Lined ... with drawstring closure.

The pile.  First, a drool bib.  It came out oh-kay.  The S looks betters in real life as this is bent funny.

Hooded towel and two burp towels or hand towels.

Modeled by Grady. :)

complete with pleat in the back.  I'm very proud.  I followed my friend Emily's advice with the color around the hood, but the rest of the pattern is HERE.  I had left over terry cloth so I used that and not real towels.  But I'm going to make one / two of these for Grady and other babies in the future so I probably will take the bloggers advice and by the cheapy towels from Wal-Mart.  Probably the best I've done following instructions to date with my sewing adventures.

 A 44" swaddle blanket, big enough to swaddle a 9 month old (at least one in the 30th-ish percentile).  Hospitals swaddle in blankets this size, the ones at the store are usually 36" or smaller.   I was given one this size and we STILL use it for nap time.  So I now make them as baby gifts.

And the other standard gift I give, a taggie.   Because they are awesome and minky fabric is super soft.