The Baby Project (2) - Reversible Baby Blanket

As-salam.

Hi, frens. How's Ramadhan so far? Mine is good.  I thought I'd be tired and restless now that I'm in my 3rd trimester. Alhamdulillah I can get through the day quite well. 

I purposely made this blanket for the arrival of baby #2 in the hospital. I want to have more pictures of my newborn compared to Raisya. I want to have a picture of my baby snuggled in the softness of Momma's made blanket. Looking back,I wish I would have taken more pictures of Raisya when she was a little baby. I feel sad by just flipping through Raisya's picture folder in my computer.  At that time, I only have old Samsung  phone and inexpensive Olympus point and shoot camera. Sadly we lent the camera to my brother-in-law.  I only left with my camera phone during my confinement. You know that taking pictures from old 4MP or maybe 6MP camera phone wasn't exciting. That's what I felt.

For the reversible blanket, I just cut 30 inch x 30 inch square of flannel and cotton and stitched them together. When you have thousands of label like mine, you just stitched  the label on both sides of the fabric. LOL. 

Fabric : Aqua Sweet Hearts from Aqua and Dot Collection by Michael Miller

Flannel : Unknown

The Baby Project (1) - Top Knot Hat

I'm about 28 weeks pregnant with my second baby which means I'm in my 3rd trimester. I have another 12 weeks if I make it to the full term. 


I haven't done anything yet for baby #2. Sniff, sniff. Not that I'm not excited, but the to-do list and shopping list are significantly shorter for baby #2. If you understand what I mean. =)

I did purchased a few onesies on sale at Mothercare and also cloth diapers for baby #2. Those were the only things I bought so far.  I am slowly increasing my CD stash since I was thinking of cloth diapering baby #2.  CD? Interesting, no? I do hope I can share with you my cloth diaper stories once I started the journey soon.


Back to the post title - The Baby Project.  The Baby Project is to document every single things I make for baby #2. I want to stress the word "make" here my friends. I will document things I make only, not buy, not purchase. I have a not-so-long to-do lists for The Baby Project which I hope I can finish before the baby arrives. So bear with me.

I begin with a little baby steps.I'm making top knot hat just now. Tutorial can be found HERE. I have no real model to justify the cute hat that I'm making. Teddy bear is only I have. 

Here I used knit fabric from RM10 shirt I found at KL Sentral. Ignore the wobbly zigzag stitching. I promise I'll do better for the next hat. But its still cute isn't it? Considering I can make 2 hats out of RM10 shirt.  It is a plus point for me since I still have extra remnant that can be turn into anything cute other than hat. For plain white top knot like this, I bet it priced at RM29.90 at Mothercare. 

Stay tuned for The Baby Project (2). Till then.