In a book Sikksakk I saw long time ago a sleeping bag made for a baby from an old sheep skin coat. I thought that was a marvellous idea and even found and old sheep skin coat from A's parents' storage room. The coat did not fit to anyone anymore and it's not really in anyones' style so I got that coat from them.
On monday I met a woman with two young children and we got talking about clothing a baby. I have found it difficult to dress Likka. She does not like to be dressed or undressed, so I have not dressed her much when we go out, I just place her in a sleeping bag. It works really well now, but the sleeping bag is not very warm and when it gets colder the sleeping bag we have now is not going to be enough. So the woman I met suggested that we could buy a down sleeping bag for the winter. She said she uses one for her younger kid.
I believe her but since I had that sheep skin coat I desided to now make the sleeping bag from that. I had returned that book to the library where the pattern for the sleeping bag was I just made up my own pattern. Besides the pattern needed to be adjusted to the coat anyway.
I can't say that sheep skin is very easy to sew, it's really thick and it hardly fit under the sewing machine's foot but after one broken needle and tens of bent pins later I got the sheep skin sleeping bag done. I'm sure the sleeping bag is not as warm as a down sleeping bag would be and it might be that we will get a down one too later, but the sheep skin sleeping bag at least together with the regular sleeping bag works until it gets really cold.
Leena Congratulations!!
ReplyDeleteI'm not quite sure how you are managing to blog...much less create projects like the one featured here...But I think it's great. And baby looks snug as bug as they say around here.
Again, congratulations on your bundle of joy.
Great to hear from you Santa! And congratulations to you are also in order I think.
DeleteIn theory I now have more time for crafts and blogging than I ever did when I was working full time. The time is ofcourse segmented into smaller bits, but still. Also the blog is my "social life" now, I don't have lots of mommy friends so the blog keeps me sane :)
That looks really cozy. She is so, so tiny, I didn't even see her in there. :)
ReplyDeleteOr then the basket is really big :)
DeleteBut really... she is small. She was only 6,2 pounds when she was born, now of course she has gained lot of weight (she eats really well) but is still at the age of one month small compared to others.
That is one of the more ingenious projects you've come up with, yet. I love it. It looks great, too. I am so intrigued by this practice of putting the baby outside to sleep--do you go out with her and watch her or do you stay inside and get things done? At what temperature do you not do this?
ReplyDeleteThanks Alana.
DeleteI just place her there and go do my own thing. She will let me know when she does not like it there anymore, if I'm inside I leave the back door bit open so I can hear her. Some people use baby monitors, we also have walkie talkies with that function, but have not yet needed those. Some say babies sleep better outside in fresh air than inside. I have not seen much difference yet.
I've understood that under minus 15 celsius you should not nap the baby outside, but there is no official rules for this. Also if it's really windy the temperature feels colder, so it depends a bit. In our conservatory it ofcourse is never windy.
BBC has apparently done a article about this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21537988
maybe you'll find that interesting
Ah yes, she is in the conservatory--somewhat protected from the elements. Thanks for the article. I wish I had known about this when my kids were younger. I thought I had to take them on walks for them to get them their fresh air and I didn't have much time for that. I think it's a great practice. At the very least it gets the little ones accustomed to the cold--and it fosters a connection with the outdoors. That's important.
ReplyDeletealso it is quite handy. you can do some noisy work inside while the baby is outside.
DeleteI too go to walks with her. she falls asleep so nicely in the judder of the pram, then when she sleeps I just lift the whole basket part to the conservatory. I don't have to lift her out or remove any clothes which might wake her up.
This is beyond cool. Congratulations as well.
ReplyDeleteThank you Megan
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