baby shower bunting and bear
hi everyone.
after a little two week break, i’m back blogging again. i have sewn/made a couple of things, but they were both presents so i couldn’t put them online until the recipient had received them!
the first thing was a tshirt for my mom. i’m not going to blog about it because it was just copied from one she’s already got, but there’s a picture on my instagram if you want to see; my username on there is @rach_wain.
so the other thing that i’ve made that was a present was for a baby shower that i went to yesterday. i’m not really au fait with baby showers; i’ve only been to three and never know what to buy! my friend’s husband showed me a picture of their nursery so i thought i’d make something to add a bit of colour. then bunting didn’t seem quite enough, so i decided to make a teddy bear to match.
my favourite part about making bunting was getting to buy the fabric! i always see such lovely stuff but it’s never something that i would make a dress out of. so i went to barry’s in a fit of excitement and saw this super cute fabric…
i liked it as it’s got a bit of a “modern” vibe about it without being too typically cute for a baby. i don’t know if anyone else sees that, but i’m sticking with it haha.
i then went with pink and grey (they know the baby is a girl!) and then wanted another patterned fabric to go with my favourite “modern triangles” haha.
i went with this one, which i feel is more typically cute.
i made 4 strings of 2 metre strips so they can put them in different places if they want to without having to cut it themselves.
onto my favourite bit – the bear! i used a pattern for him as i wanted him to be perfect. i went with simplicity 8044.
would you believe it when i say there’s only two pattern pieces that you use?! i don’t know why but i really didn’t believe it at first until i cut it out haha. it’s a really fantastic pattern and quick to make too.
i used the same fabrics as i did for the bunting so it would all match.
i decided to add the circle pads to his hands to tie the colours in together a bit more.
the bow was such a flipping faff to get right, so once i’d got it as best as it was going to get, i put a few stitches in there to keep it in place.
finally after he was all assembled, i embroidered his face on.
i’m really happy with both the bunting and the bear! i think this is the way forward for all my baby shower presents now.
That’s a lovely present, I bet they were delighted!