I'm looking at nappies now.

I have found a fabulous website for fabrics now - plushaddict.


Their sale and clearance section has some lovely stuff in it.












Now I have to buy some KamSnaps!
I was using Prym press-studs, but they just don't have the variety that KamSnaps has.
Prym press-studs are metal, and KamSnaps are plastic, so they might not be as reliable. But you don't know till you've done it, do you!

And of course, the fabric that holds all that comes out into the nappy....

I'm not thinking about Christmas, honest!

I was directed to this site:
http://www.bernat.com/pattern.php?PID=6823&cps=21191
by someone on Mumsnet, and I had to archive the pattern!
It's fab!

I know it lends itself to other animal designs, too - a different colourway and take off the antlers, and you've got bears, or tigers, or lions (add a fluffy mane!) or kittens or dogs.
Some of those are better without the legs, or add thicker legs.

Right, let's go!

I used to sew a lot.
For some reason, working 6 days a week in a shop and having a baby to look after seems to prevent me sewing.
Which is a great shame, because there are costumes to make and baby clothes to sew.
When I was a child, I remember almost all of our clothes were made by my mum. She was a genius of the sewing machine and overlocker.
I like to sew: I can't knit and I'm not very good at crochet, but I am good at sewing.

I made my own wedding dress, and I can make patterns from blocks.
Not children's clothes, though, because I don't have child blocks.
That's something that needs to go on my list.

I'm fed up of the retail world assuming that because I have a daughter, that she should be wrapped from head to toe in not only pink, but glittery, pink, frilly, blousy, fluffy clothes that have ribbons and slogans on, just in case there's any doubt that she's a girl.
Why can't I buy plain clothes for my daughter?
Why can't I buy basic clothes for my daughter?

I don't even like to look in the boys' section of the clothes shops, because they all say that to be a boy, you must have green, grey, beige, brown or navy, and it must assert your boyhood by having tough slogans and pictures all over them.

yeah, I know, we all know that the gender stereotypng has been done and overdone.

So, this is what my blog is for.
I'm gathering up information of patterns I've seen, fabrics and notions, all into one lovely place, so that I can find it again when I'm ready, and so that I can give my sisters some ideas for when they want to buy me pressies ;)

Number 1:
fabric.

 http://thefabricfairy.com/dino-dudes-pul-fabric-by-michael-miller.html