Monday, February 25, 2013

my mom came to visit a couple weeks ago and i put her to work.  i bought a bunch of flannel (in cute baby prints, not 90's plaid. i have no idea why i felt the need to distinguish that.) with the intention of making a crap load of burp cloths. burp cloths are the one thing i found we blew through (other than diapers, of course) that i thought i could make myself.  i sewed exactly one before the bobbin ran out of thread and i was all eh, i'll finish these later.

enter, my mom.  she knocked out about twenty of these in no time (thanks mom!).  i got all of the fabric from fabric.com and paid about $3-4 a yard.  so, uh, i think i saved some money?  and i don't need to do laundry nearly as often which is nice too.


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pulling out the sewing machine totally reminded me that i was making a quilt for adelaide.  oops.  i managed to get through four whole rows of sewing those damn triangles together while i was still pregnant.  it's just so tedious!  (especially to a horrible sewer)


but i'm determined to finish it!  i'm guessing my best bet is to finish before i go back to work in six weeks.  hold me to it!

on second thought, my best bet was probably getting my mom to do it.


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  1. you should have pulled it out. Too bad I don't have it here with me; with all the snow it would give me something to do.

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    1. she will have to figure out where I am living first! ha

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  3. I second McV's comment - mail it to your mom. She wants something to do and then when Adelaide grows up, she will have a blanket that was made by "mom and grandma". Even more special, right? :)
    As for burp cloths, my sisters-in-law swear by those old cloth diapers. So I have a ton of those (and actually, my sister in law embellished quite a few with fabric at the bottom) for when this kid arrives. I figure you can never have too many diapers, blankets or burp cloths. What else do they do the first few months?
    I think I'm going to make a quilt, but I'm not going to be nearly as ambitious as you. I'm thinking something easy like stripes and then hiring this lady in town that has a long-arm quilting machine to put it all together.
    PS - you still have 6 weeks left on maternity leave? How long did you take total? We should chat about that because I have 14 weeks available to me (8 paid, 6 unpaid) but I have no idea how much time I should actually take off.

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    1. I tried to reply to your comment in email but it didn't work! Anyway, I'm taking 12 total- a few unpaid. I'll let you know when I go back how I feel. If I would have wanted more, or less! Ha.

      Good luck with the quilt! I've heard of places that will finish it for you- sounds like a great idea!

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