8.5 Weeks - The Burp Cloth Project!

I'm getting cabin fever. The summer was crazy, and then I had fall classes to go to almost every day. Well now that I'm taking online classes at home, they're much easier and take way less time and I am getting so insanely bored being stuck in the house all day. I know I could clean, but the house isn't THAT messy and it really wipes me out. So I have been hunting for projects to do. If any of you have suggestions or neat ideas let me know! I've still got a little over 8 weeks until this little sucker pops out.

Soooo I went out last weekend and bought some cute fabric. I guess I could have bargain shopped and collected cheap cuts over time, I do get lots of 50% off coupons for JoAnn's. But fabric isn't THAT expensive and the baby flannel and cotton prints are just so freaking cute! So I narrowed it down to a few favorites and bought some stuff to make burp cloths and a baby blanket.

This was a super easy project. All you have to do is figure out what size you want your stuff. It doesn't really have to be exact. Just make it wide enough to cover your shouler, and long enough to cover your front and back...you know...the area your baby will be projectile vomiting their formula over. Mine depended on how the lenght of the fabric (which is never exactly the same) and how much I could get out of it.

Then you take the two fabrics and sew them together at the edges with the right sides facing each other. Leave an opening with enough room to get your hand in there to flip it rightside out when you're done sewing. Then once you've flipped it right, put a simple stich in to hold it together and sew all the way around the edges. You're done!

This took me about 10 minutes per cloth including measuring, cutting and pinning time. Really simple.

I picked up this cheap fabric at Walmart (a place I hate) for only $2.97 a yard, the cuts frayed like crazy in the wash and weren't the best, but I liked the fabrics and the end product turned out super cute!


The picture at the top of the blog is my classy burp cloths. It's for when I want to go out and public and still look fashionable with puke on me. I also lucked out and happened to have enough double bias tape left over from another project to put a brown border around one of them. I'm tempted to go out and buy more to do the rest, but they still look fine the way they are.

Then I did a blanket, which was a little more challenging, just because it was fun to get all the edges to lay flat together, and used the rest of the cute green lady bug fabric and hot pink fabric to make a couple oversized burp cloths.


Oh and here's a picture of me from last weekend. Am I huge or what?


So that's it for my project for this week. Again, I am looking for some fun ideas so if you have any send them my way!

Also that horrible hip pain I was having at my 9 week update is still there, but now it's just mostly at night when I roll over on my left side and curse the pregnancy gods. My left side has ALWAYS been my go-to side for sleeping so this is really throwing me off at night, and it hurts so freaking bad. But I'll live. Thanks for caring.

9 Weeks left -HIP HIP Hurtsay!

As of today, I have 60 days left. That's like two months, or 9 weeks if I am tortured with this affliction until my estimated due date. That's not much time!

Valentine's Day came and went. I still think it's a stupid holiday. I did get a nice card from my husband the weekend BEFORE Valentine's Day though. And he was nice enough to put the new dresser together for the baby and hang the pictures that go with the crib set. Now we've got the big stuff together and we just need the little things to go with it. Kinda neat. The furniture looks great in the room and I'm very pleased with everything I picked out.

I'm sure you're DYING to hear what my new symptom of the week is! I was hoping to get a week off from pregnancy pains, but Nooooooo!

During the second and third trimester, your baby's head may rest heavily on the sciatic nerve in the lower part of the spinal canal. Sciatica, the pain, numbness, and/or tingling you feel as a result, begins deep in the buttocks and radiates down the back of your legs.

Hip pain! Hip pain that goes all the way down to my big toe. It's lovely and fun. I wake up in the middle of the night with the left half of my ass and leg asleep, and yet under the sleeping part is this stabbing brutal pain that makes it almost impossible to waddle my way to the bathroom to have my middle of the night wee's. Thanks! I totally needed that!

Last Wednesday I felt some pains on the way to my math class. For some silly reason I thought it was because my pant were too tight. That in itself was silly, because I was wearing my maternity pants which are not tight. Then it happened again and I was like "ooooh I remember those, that's a contraction" Sonofabiznatch that hurts. I had these lovely crampy pains all through my 2 hour class.

My husband who has been pregnant many times just said "that's normal". Although in his defense he has been around a knocked up woman a time or two so he probably is kind of a Daddy expert on the whole thing by now. But no...more than a few contractions that are about 4-5 minutes apart for a couple hours is not normal. So I went home chugged enough water to make me nauseous and tried to lay down. Unfortunately all the water chugging made me have to get up to wee every 10 minutes. But I managed to relax and after another hour they stopped.

That night I had the most lovely aching belly that lasted into the next day. I also woke up with the lovely feeling that someone had rudely kicked me in my pelvic region, this was painful enough to wake me up a few times. In between that and the insanely horrid hip pain I've been having some miserable nights.

I'm not sure if the baby flipped around after that day of painful contractions or what, but I've gotten notably more uncomfortable. I was really hoping I wouldn't feel this yuck this early, but oh well. Such is life as a pregnant woman!

I have a doc visit next week so we'll see what he has to say.

Nesting hasn't kicked in yet in the real world, but in my Animal Crossing town it's been running rampant. I've chopped down almost every single tree in my town so that I could replace them with neat(ish) rows of apple trees, cedar trees in one far corner, and certain types of flowers in certain areas of town. Flowers that don't belong are quickly plucked and moved elsewhere, and we have a lovely row of coconut trees growing along the beach shore.

Realizing that I was bored I decided maybe I needed a more constructive project so I went out over the weekend to buy some cute baby flannel and cotton prints and have started making blankets and burp cloths. I have realized that I am a genius when it comes to sewing things that are square shaped. It makes you feel like you've accomplished something and my lovely hubbie was nice enough to say that they look like the ones you get from the store.

"Only CUTER"...I added.

Maybe I'll do another blog this week once I've totally completed the project. It really is about the most simple thing I've ever sewn and I believe anyone could make these. Only they wouldn't be as cute as mine.

Ok I'm bored with this for now, and it's getting long again. Thanks for hanging in there with me. I'm going to go put my feet up and find that heating pad.