This is our fourth weekly challenge for rookie moms.
Take a walk through a fabric store with your baby in a front carrier.
If you’re game, pick up something for a fun craft project.
If your baby’s gender was not known and you have stack of pale green and yellow clothes you don’t love, buy some bright buttons and sew them on to give the clothes a little more character.
Can you handle a project beyond sewing on a button? Be brave, girl!
Purchase a long swath of muslin fabric and create a “faux-by wrap” (yes, that’s faux-Moby wrap, we’re into puns) using the easy-peasy tutorial from Kendra.
Or select a large square of flannel for an easy swaddling blanket.
Both of these sewing projects are so simple that I’ve done them each three or four times. And I’m not the crafty one.
Baby older than this? Let her touch all the different fabrics, faux furs, zippers, and doodads under your close supervision.
Did you complete this challenge? Love it or hate it, tell us how it went:
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- Or, link in the comments to your own blog post about this challenge.
[fabric store picture from kevin1024 via flickr]
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Fabric Store. Check! I am attempting to complete each of the weekly challenges. I chose to interpret this challenge in two ways actually go to the fabric store AND get the baby out of his car seat and into the Baby Bjorn, in public. I have been lugging my car seat around Target, and the grocery store for months, Its such a struggle to get him into the seat at home I dreaded trying to manuever him in and out of it in public, only to have to put him back in the seat to run the next errand. But today we had a challenge to complete! I pulled up to JoAnn fabrics strapped on the Bjorn and loaded my little guy in. It was easy, and awesome. It turns out the height of the back seat makes the car seat manipulation much easier. We headed into the store and wandered around for almost an hour. Baby boy loved to look at the fabric colors and I had fun wishing I was more creative. It was fun to have him in the Bjorn while running errands he was awake, alert and engaged in our activity. Plus I could comfort and distract him much more easily than when I had the car seat in the stroller or in the shopping cart. I purchased a yard of a felt and a yard of minky fabric. I am two hours and three phone calls to my Mom into finishing my first baby blanket. Thanks for the great challenge, we will go back to the fabric store and from now on we are leaving the car seat in the car!
Well JT did one better than me…I took my daughter to the fabric store but did not get her into the front carrier. I still don’t know how to use my wrap and she is still too small for a standard front carrier. It was very hard getting the car seat through the fabric displays.
I bought two fabrics which I have no idea what to do with as I already have a surplus of baby blankets.
@Bex, maybe you could try framing the fabric out on the wall of the nursery. Buy some cheap wood trim, paint it with a complementry color to the fabric, some finishing nails.. maybe use the repositionable poster tape things 3M puts out to find just the right size and place to put it on the wall.. and .. instant art!
ok, I am behind on the weekly challenges, however, since I need to go to the fabric store to buy muslin to finish tadpole’s dust ruffle, why not pick up some fabric and make the fauxby?
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