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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Sleeping bags with legs for mobile toddlers

As a mum of two in a badly insulated house, I often seem to get up at night to check the kids are under their blankets. Invariably they are not, and I'm amazed how they don't seem to wake up despite being quite cold.  When they were tiny I loved seeing them all cosy in their sleeping bags, but as soon as they got mobile, these were shunned. Since we have alot of steps in our house I'm also worried about them getting up and trying to shuffle around in their sleeping bags and falling down the stairs. Hence the era of nightly blanket checks begun.

Needless to say, I'd rather be asleep, than worrying about whether they are warm enough. Last winter I invested in some sleeping bags with legs from babies-and-kids.com. There don't seem to be many companies which make these for toddlers, and the only ones I could find were very expensive and not particularly nice designs.  I got them anyway - anything for warm babies at night!

This year I have decided to get some pretty jersey material, like the colourful jersey materials from Farbenmix, and sew my own sleeping bags with legs.

Unfortunately I haven't finished this project yet,  or even started it properly  :o(    As anyone who sews will know, if you want to make clothes with really nice fabrics, then it usually works out more expensive than buying them. Which brought me to my next idea, as an interim solution:  buy a reasonably priced toddlers sleeping bag, and adapt it to make legs. I'm hoping i'll at least be able to post a picture of this soon!

Watch this space!

Monday, September 3, 2012

Not sewing this time...





I'm more into sewing  and not big on cakes (yet)  but I can see how you can really get into it! This was my effort at a fairy castle for my 4 year olds birthday.  Unfortunately the finished cake was huge, and the kids hardly ate any, so I finished most of it myself :o))  Next year she is having some thing easier!