Baby pouch sling

Here is another baby pouch sling made from the www.mykarmababy.com website. They only take 5 mins to make and its great to have a spare in the car.

Waterproof baby car seat covers

Here are a few baby car seat covers for our rented baby car seat. They are just as simple as possible so no thought is required to slip them in and out. I made them from old pillowcase covers, and they have unwanted batting (2-3 layers), fleece, and a layer of our leftover thermal curtain (which I figure might stop a bit of water leaking through). If I wanted to really make them waterproof I would have used a layer of PUL, hemp, and microfibre inside, but I wanted to recycle what I had on hand in the house for free if possible. I'll keep the spares in the car to use if a nappy leaks while we are out and about.

Jansdotter Baby Snuggler

Here is my first go at the Lotta Jansdotter Baby Snuggler from her book Simple Sewing for Baby. Although I'll be ordering the book (its not distributed here in NZ as far as I can ascertain), it can take 7-8 weeks for books to arrive in New Zealand from Amazon in the USA, and my baby is due in 7 weeks. So I just did the pattern from the podcast. I enlarged it until the snuggler measured about 48 cm from top to bottom, as my first son was 55 cm (head to toe, stretched right out) when born. So this is a newborn size snuggler. Although there were no instructions on the podcast that I could find, and I couldn't figure out which issue number the magazine was (to even start trying to find it to buy it), I had no problems sewing it together. Although, note for next time, I think the two velcros labelled "left outside flap (prickly side)," could do with being moved an inch towards the outside edge of the flap. It felt like in their current position, it was in the smallest setting, and I'd have preferred to allow a tiny bit of room for growth without the velcro showing out the edge as bub gets bigger.

A Church near Porangahau, North Island, New Zealand

Windproof fleece baby sling

I finally finished my second baby sling. I made a cotton one about a month ago (the white and red one), and then today I finished the orange windproof fleece babysling (as my baby will be born in July, which is winter here). The two layers of fleece, plus the windproof material, ended up being quite thick. I think it will be nice and warm, but it was a bit hard to sew so many layers on the seams. I had to make the seam in the curve lie flat rather than be the french seam in the pattern. I can't remember which pattern I used. I think it was either this one or this one. Here's hoping baby likes being carried in a sling!