Ok… stuff! I just have to write this quick blog post or … I dunno, explode or something! because right now I am the Red Queen, running as fast as I can just to stay in the same place… and if I don’t just get on with a thing right this very minute then will it ever ever get gone on with, at all?! That is the question? So, on with the stuff!
So, a while ago I’d written about how the Burda baby onesie pattern I’d been using for Arthur had proved itself to be too wide for the height of it? Like way too wide, fall off the shoulders wide, while the poppers at the crotch were straining to stay shut? Well, I made a new pattern, and it’s super cute. Of course it is! When are tiny weeny baby clothes NOT cute, hmmm? Exactly!
So above is the first one… yellow striped cotton jersey from Spotlight stores… At the same time that we got this fabric, we also bought some lengths for bunny rugs for the baby. When I say “we” by the way, that is NOT the royal we, although I am indeed in the thick of watching the Crown at present and as such am become quite proficient in such conversational niceties… no, actually Cassie and I went to Spotlight together and selected fabrics for the new baby’s, new nursery.
I had also previously bought some white cotton jersey, to make a maternity frock for Cassie.
She’d sort of semi-designed what she wanted in the dress, a tank dress, with the tank front able to be lifted up for breast-feeding, layered over a sort of boob tube with an elasticated top edge underneath. The skirt is a quarter circle skirt. It’s a pretty simple design and style, and she loves it!
Side note: I’ve had to look at the messy lower half of this dresser for years. It took putting the house on the market for me to finally do something about making this a wee bit prettier to the casual observer. Voila!! A sweet lace curtain! Side note to the side note; we sold the house… very quickly as it turned out. The beach house also sold very quickly, like before it even went officially on the market. My head is spinning!! I’ll talk more about this later, right now it’s all still a bit overwhelming.
Next! I bought this shark print cotton jersey from Spotlight… actually, ALL these fabrics are from Spotlight, to be honest! I bought this fabric months ago, pre covid, always with the intention of making a little Watson bra and briefs set… ta da! Simple, pretty – well as pretty as a shark can get I guess! – and comfy. And finally done!
Lastly, I had a small bit of sharky leftovers. So, obviously… 
This one is a little bit bigger than the yellow one.
So, I think that’s it for now! I have a few other things in the works, and will definitely/hopefully?! be posting everything before the end of the year. I’d better pull my socks up, eh?
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