Preparing for Pip

Time creeps on, I'm now nearing the 2/3 mark in the pregnancy and I am enjoying making and collecting little bits for Pip. 

We don't really need anything for Pip, we have a set of boy and girl baby clothes, baby car seat, Moses basket, pram, cot etc. However we are getting a few off bits of clothing for Pip and I'll of course have to make Pip a blanket like I did for Nemo and Pebble but I'm not yet sure what to do.

I did this knitted cable blanket for Nemo and this crocheted granny square one for Pebble.

I couldn't resist buying this blanket from the frugi sale though!

We've bought a few things from charity shops and sales for Pip. 

These were from the h+m sale 

Charity shop finds (the sleepsuit on the right has a little elephant that comes from the pocket!)

This was from a local berwick shop

Now these weren't actually in a sale but we bought them from next to hedge our bets and to help Nemo learn that this baby could be a boy or girl!! 

I realised after making leggings and a hat for Nemo from some whale fabric last week that I could actually use the little I had left to make some little mittens!!

So here is the full set!

Pretty pleased as out of 1m of fabric I made leggings for the 3 children, a baby hat and mittens. I then decided I could use my left over fabric from other projects to do more sets!

I tried to use my more gender neutral fabric. I have some more boy material from Nemo's leggings that I will use if Pip comes out a boy! 

Today I made a dress for Pebble's 2nd birthday next week. I actually used fabric my Mum bought for Pebble (I think for her 1st birthday!!) and some leftover fabric from the pockets. 

This is now my 7th dress I've made from this pattern and I'm starting to wear of it. The bodice with sleves is a little tricky to make, it has a lining inside which is fiddly to attach to the gathered skirt. However I am going to make a sleeveless version out of this fabric before maybe putting the pattern aside for a while! 

The chicken fabric was also bought by my Mum for Pebble and the dotty fabric is left over from the dresses I made for my twin nieces in the summer. 

As for the children they have been pretty good this week. In a turn of events Nemo has been a little clingy to me this week and has been my shadow. He was really cute today, instead of going to school on this scooter he decided to take the baby doll with him so we could both be pushing prams.

I forget how protective you become of your children. As we walked through the playground at lunchtime some older boys were laughing at Nemo for pushing the pram (thankfully Nemo was oblivious to it) I found myself giving the boys the most intense - 'don't you dare' stare!

Pebble is being a very usual almost 2 year old, she goes from adorable to majorly tantrumy and back again in an instant. She's adopted a rabbit Hubby bought me years ago and won't go anywhere without it!

As pebble snuggles up to her rabbit or any other soft thing at night it makes me laugh that this is what Nemo chooses to cuddle up to at bedtime!

His campervan! Well at least my parents don't have to worry about Nemo not liking his Christmas present!