Baby gifts

Remember that I mentioned here that I needed to sew up some bunny rugs for a new baby?

They are done!

It's really a very easy sewing project. Just place two squares of cotton flannelette right sides together - mine was about 120cm square. Use a saucer to mark the rounded corners and sew all around leaving an opening of about 20 - 30cm to turn it through. 

Trim seams and clip curves, turn right side out and top stitch around the edges including the opening. 

I didn't wash mine first (have I mentioned that I'm an instant kind of girl?) so I was careful to put the grain line of both pieces running in the same direction. That way, when the fabric shrinks - and it will - both will shrink the same amount in the same direction. 

The bird fabric does have a little bird in the limey green of the backing so it does match better than it looks in the photo! And the day was a bit dreary hence the dreary photo! 

The book is also a gift, and is one of my two all time favourite pregnancy books - "Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year" by Susun S Weed. (My other favourite is "Spiritual Midwifery") 

I used my copy for each of my pregnancies and babies and often for the older children too. It's such a useful book, full of simple and practical herbal remedies for all those little dilemmas that you may have with your new babe, or your new mothering self! 

This book is destined for a New Mum; she's the daughter of my dear, dear friend who passed way 18 months ago and who also loved and used it. I am sure she would have given a copy to her daughter, had she still been here. 

I'm gifting it in her stead.