crinkle toy

Leo loves his crinkle lion but I don't always remember to bring it along with me when we go out, so I decided to make one just for the diaper bag.

I used an old sweatshirt, hoodie, and some smarties wrappers

did a rough cut out of Kermit and a larger rectangle for the back

laid out the smarties wrappers and taped them together

(I should have either taped them more thoroughly or just found something larger for the crinkle inside because after I was done some of the pieces shifted inside.)

sandwiched the layers and pinned

sewed around Kermit

pulled away all the cellophane from the edges and cut him out

Leo approved :)

more baby stuffs

made this bib from an old t shirt and some leftover fabric. I'm running low on pretty thread colors, so I picked an image from my embroidery machine that would look alright with what I had - browns. decided on the ice cream and added the caption "nom nom nom". I know babies don't eat ice cream cones.... but I thought it was cute just the same. I serged the edges and put on a snap and called it a day.

these booties are made from the same pattern as the grey knitted ones I did. this is how they come out with fleece squares and embroidery stitches. I doubled up the fleece so they'd be thicker and baby won't feel the stitches on the inside. I think they may have taken as long to make if I'd just knitted them! just the embroidery took forever, not actually sewing them together - don't let it scare you away from trying them!

I used smartie wrappers again in the wings of this felt butterfly - I love how they crinkle :) - attached a ribbon and looped it onto a Link-a-doo ring.

I did this elephant with leftover fabric from my crib bedding, put eyelets on his feet and attached wood wheels on dowels through them. might be more of a cute thing to look at than actually play with because it's so tiny, but it was fun to make.

I can't wait to get these out in the mail... :)

elephant "rattle"

I found this cute frog rattle on a link-a-doo loop and wanted to try and make my own. it seemed simple enough... but I just couldn't get it right :(

I gave up on duplicating the frog and just did what worked best.

I put a jingle bell in his head, but it's sorta muffled :\

I also put Smarties wrappers in its ears and those came out sounding really good :)