More bum coverings.

Still on a newborn photo prop kick!  I have seen really cute ruffle bum nappy covers around, but no tutorials other than those using a special ruffle fabric. I decided to wing it.  I started off with this tutorial at Made which is fabulous.  I thought I knew what I was doing with the ruffles but it all ended up a tangled mess with ruffles stuck in leg seams and stitches everywhere.  I started again, first with a simple cover, no ruffles.

Perfect for a little boy.  Then, with a better idea of how it all worked, I moved on to the ruffle one.

This is the front, it looks very odd! The fabric was from a craft fair, perhaps at the NEC and was a very bad choice as those little white flowers melt when you iron them.  Lesson learned.

Here is the back, showing the three rows of ruffles.  You can't really make it out, can you?  I need a model... Mr Hefalump!

Poor Mr Hefalump, no wonder he looks so sad.  This does show the finished effect better though!

And it co-ordinates with his blanket!  I'm sorry Mr Hefalump.  I won't ask you to model baby stuff again (I will). 

Oh, and I won an award!  I came second in Homecrafts Blog Awards.  Go check me out and the other winners.

more bonnets

Yep, I'm still living in 1800s England...  I bet my mum wished bonnets were in fashion in the 70s when I was a baby.  I was bald until I was 2.  I can just imagine the looks I got.

I used this tutorial at Mousse Mouse Creations again, but this time used a pink yarn.  It was Sirdar Snuggly baby yarn again, but I can't remember what the next bit was.  It has little white slubs in which look nice but are an absolute *%$&*$ to sew in at the end.

This is a back view, the back is quite flat.  I think newborns have quite flat heads at the back, though I don't really know as NOT ONE OF YOU volunteered to lend me a newborn.  Yeah, thanks ladies.

A matching nappy cover was in order.  A nappy is what those across the pond call a diaper.  I do prefer the word nappy so I'm not going to Americanise it!  I made this from this free pattern and used both the white and pink yarns.  It looks impossibly small.  Now I also need a baby bum to add to my baby head...

The nappy cover goes with all the bonnets.  I don't know why these pictures are this way up.  I rotated them in the folder before I uploaded to photobucket.  They were still this way up in photobucket so I rotated them there.  Blogger didn't like that.  Blogger has decided you all have to look at it sideways on, so do as Blogger tells you.

I think I'm done with bonnets for a while (until my friend tells me they're too small and I have to start again...), on to something else.  Something else to put on baby's heads and bums so if anyone does want to lend me their newborn...  I'll only borrow it for a few days and I promise not to call it "it".