Welcome to the world, Jack!

My friend in Gothenburg has just become a proud mum to a baby-boy! So I sent a few handcrafted gifts to her little Jack. Starting with this babynest:

I have tried a new pattern this time (where the ring and the mat is a one-piece), but it was actually more difficult to give it a shape that I wanted. Next time I would make the mat and the ring separately but I would keep the nice round shape of the mattress on the top.

The mat has snap buttons so that it is easy to take out the mattress and to wash the babynest.

: pattern: inspired by this

: fabric: lovely green cotton fabric bought at Åhléns

I also made a tiny baby bonnet and a bandana bib and now Jack can rock on the West Coast :)

: patterns: Ottobre Design 5/2006 (bonnet of size 36) and this for a bandana bib pattern
: fabric: yellow jersey with white vehicles from JNYDesign, white ribbing and violet velour

I guess that Jack looks like this in his babynest:

Nesting, literally

It all began when I decided to buy a sewing machine just before my baby-girl was born. I simply reckoned that each household should own one... however the secondary reason was directly connected to my nesting instinct. Literally! I wanted to have a "baby nest" for her (http://www.babynest.se/), so that she could sleep undisturbed in our bed in the first weeks of her life. However, I found all the choices available on the market rather plain and too expensive. It shouldn't be too difficult to make it myself, I thought.

And so I purchased a Singer Heavy Duty 4423 sewing machine as well as some fabrics from IKEA. Then I let myself be inspired by other mums that published their instructions on how to sew a baby nest on the web. A few hours of working and voilà! My first sewing project has been completed...

A baby nest. It can be opened as the child grows.

All in all, I was very satisfied with my first sewing achievement. As was my daughter.

: design: my own, inspired by http://unggravid.blogspot.com, http://lindabireseveriksson.blogg.se and http://6-barnsmamma.blogspot.com

: fabrics: Saralisa by IKEA plus a mattress (3cm tjock skummadrass från Åhléns).