I didn't have the time or the inclination (morning sickness, anyone?) to take part in the Fall Kids Clothes Week with Meg, despite not doing too badly during the first one in the spring. However, as you might have gathered from yesterday's list, Teddy actually really does need some new clothes (the whole toddler-belly-hanging-out-under-the-sweater isn't the greatest look ever), so I've decided to tackle his ever diminishing wardrobe over the next week or two (or three).
I really love seeing Teddy in clothes that I've made for him. It satisfies some really basic urge to nurture and keep him happy and cosy, I think. In much the same way that seeing him eating good wholesome food that I (or Adam, mostly, at the minute) have made for him is infinitely more soul-warming than something out of a packet. Not that we don't turn to shop bought clothes (and pre-prepared food, come to that) on a fairly regular basis, but it's still lovely, and preferable, to have the homemade version where possible.
Incidentally, I don't know about you, but I'm finding that while I'm trying to work most days and Adam is in charge of childcare, this blog is significantly less packed with family related things. It's not that those things aren't happening (in fact, as I've probably mentioned, Adam is significantly better at being the stay at home parent than me in lots of ways), but because I'm not organising them and spending every waking moment with Teddy, they're just not being recorded on here in the same way. If that's why you're here, I apologise, and I hope that you'll hang around till next week when (it looks like) Adam will be back in work and I'll be back on toddler-duty.
Anyway, back to the matter in hand.
First up is new cosy pyjamas, exactly like these (I still have plenty of the same fabric) but significantly bigger - I don't think the old ones actually do up any more. And maybe this time I'll get round to finishing the elastic casing too.
In the search for some day time clothes I've ordered the latest issue of Ottobre, as well as trawling my existing much thumbed copies. I managed to accrue quite a big jersey/interlock/ribbing/sweatshirt fabric stash a while back, so I'm looking forward to turning some of it into actual clothes.
I live in hope that if I'm really efficient I might be able to cross a couple of things off Teddy's section of The List (updated a couple of days ago).
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