The World According to Mommy

It's not that cold yet, but soon it's going to start getting pretty chilly at night. I worry about those nights when it's not quite cold enough to turn on the heat, but when you definitely need a little more warmth.

Nate is still too young to have a blanket, so I was trying to figure out a solution to keep him warm at night. When he was a little baby he wore a HALO Sleep Sack, but now that he's crawling and pulling up in his crib, he needed something with feet in it so that he didn't trip.

I came across the big kid version of the HALO Sleep Sack on their website, which is really just a wearable blanket with feet. This was exactly what I needed, but the smallest size they had was 2/3 T, way too big for Nate.

So I thought maybe I could use my sweet sewing skills and make him something similar. I definitely made him something, but I'm not sure how similar it is:

(The whole time Matt was holding Nate up for the picture he was singing M.C. Hammer's "Can't Touch This".)

This is officially my second sewing project, after the inserts I made for my cloth diapers, and my second attempt at some frugal baby-warming gear. I probably should have been deterred by the fact that this project called for a zipper AND elastic, but I decided it was really just a blanket with some arm and leg holes, along with a little elastic and a zipper, so how hard could it be?

Oh, I also failed to mention that I did absolutely no measuring. Nate was asleep the night I decided I had to cut and pin the fabric NOW, so I just eyeballed it. I used two flannel blankets that I had leftover from making my diaper inserts, and I pretty much used all of the two blankets. Waiting one day and actually taking some measurements probably would have been a good idea, because after getting Nate in it I realized that the arm holes are WAY too big. We really could have just bypassed the zipper all together and put him in through those gaping holes. Luckily, that's an easy fix

I think from far away my creation kinda, sorta resembles the HALO wearable blanket, just don't come in too close for an inspection. And for goodness sakes, do NOT turn it inside out and look at the seams. It really is a crazy mess on the inside. But maybe, just maybe, it will keep my baby warm at night.