Well, I'm afraid I haven't posted here in about 3 months. In that time I have:
- Interviewed for a job
- Got the job (teaching full time - yay!)
- Discovered I was pregnant with baby #2
- Worked until I couldn't sleep at above job
- Enrolled my son in daycare
- Un-enrolled my son from daycare to stay home with papa
- Missed my boys terribly
What I have NOT done:
- any making of any kind.
Actually, that's not true. We're trying to make most of our Christmas presents for family this year, so I have made a huge batch of mustard, some of my brother's infused salts, various chocolate barks, and an absolutely delicious batch of almond roca. Hopefully more to come today. And seeing as today is the first day of Christmas holidays for me, I wanted to jump back into it!!
Here's what I made today:
Nursing pads!!
Cost: $0
(just cut up a receiving blanket I barely used with baby #1. This kid was so big, none of the commercial ones were any good to me, since he wasn't a spitter and I couldn't swaddle him in these. Had to get my mom to make special big ones!)
What I did:
1) Fold blanket in half. Trace out 8 circles ( really 16 because of the fold) using a 4-5 inch bowl as a guide. Cut out.
2) Fold in half and sew a little dart in each one (from the center to one edge, about 15 mm at the widest point of the dart). Cut off excess material from dart.
3) Layer 4 circles together, wrong sides facing in, and serge around the outside.
4) That's it!
This project seriously took me half an hour to complete and now I have 2 sets of nursing pads that I made from something I wouldn't have used anyway!! I still have lots of fabric left in that first receiving blanket, so I'll probably make more, but I figured I should ease myself back into the whole crafting/making thing. Wouldn't want to overdo it... And besides, there are episodes of Glee to be caught up on ;)
