I have been doing some sewing for the baby. I always meant to get some done last time but worked full time until just before I was due, and really had very little energy to do anything once I got home. It’s nice having the extra time and energy to get some things done this time. I’m still feeling mostly really good. I want to make a chiro appointment, but I’m really not that sore. Mostly I feel awkward. I’m finding it extremely difficult to bend over too. I don’t remember that at all with Meredith’s pregnancy, I think it might be because of the different positions of the two? I’ll often do things like have Meredith in my arms and go to pick something up and then have a really hard time standing up again, I have to put her down.
Anyway, here are a few things I’ve made recently for the baby. The first are some wool soakers made from a recycled sweater. I used this pattern and they were super fast and easy. Click to see them bigger.
I also wanted to make some kimono shirts, because the one I had last time was one of my favorite shirts for Meredith. So much easier to get on a little baby than anything that pulls over the head. I found this pattern online and it looked perfect. While searching for the pattern, I also found some pants and kimono shoes too so of course I had to make them as well. 
The last piece is a matching prefold diaper. My sewing machine started jamming in the middle of making these. I was so upset, as we really don’t have a lot of extra cash right now to get it fixed. My sweet husband spent his whole evening on Google and with the manual, taking it apart, cleaning it out, fixing tensions, etc., and did manage to get it fixed and so I finally got these done today.
These ones are flannel, but I bought some cotton fabric too and I plan to make a few more tops, and hopefully a couple more pairs of pants. I want to make more prefolds too, since baby will likely be coverless a lot and they’re so easy and cute. The shoes were a bit of a pain to make at first, but now that I have done a pair I think the rest will be easy. If I have time I might make a few more of them too, but I don’t think they’re very practical (they’re liable to just be kicked off), so I’m not going to go overboard on the shoes. I think I have to make the next ones bigger too. They are size 0-3 months, but we all have big feet. I compared the shoes to the imprint of Meredith’s feet we have at around 12 days old and they’re almost too small already. Her feet at that age were bigger than her cousin’s feet at 8 weeks (we have a little magnet of her cousin’s feet on the fridge so I compared lol).
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I love all of your projects. Good work on the shoes, they look like they would have been a challenge to sew. I LOVE the kimono!
Wow! Those look so great. I love kimono shirts for babies.