I felt the need to take on baby gifts this weekend. And I even completed them! Wonders never cease.

The first gifts that I made are for a couple little babies whose parents work in my office. They are personalized pacifier clips. The one on the left says "Shhhh" in beads. Hopefully she thinks that's funny, too! I wanted to make more, but she doesn't know what she's having, and I couldn't find any more nice gender neutral ribbon -- it was all boring or blatantly boy/girl. So I'll have to find more to go with this one. The other 3 are for a guy who just adopted a little boy. The beads say I {heart} Mommy and Daddy, and also his initials. I was going to put his name on one, but would you believe the bag of beads didn't include an "R"!? Guess the makers didn't play Wheel of Fortune enough to realize how frequently an "R" is needed! Oh well.




















The next gift I made is a nap mat for my neice, who is due to be born in March. It was actually surprisingly quick and easy to make. By quick, I mean about 3-4 hours. But that's not bad! I'm going to make one for each of our kids, too. I quilted regular cotton fabric into large squares on the back (see the rolled up side), then the mat part is flannel. The blanket is a yard of fleece. I put queen sized quilt batting inside (I folded it 3 times to give it some padding -- so it's 3 layers of quilt batting). Then I just cut the edges of the fleece into fringe. That's the beauty of fleece -- no need to hem! The beauty of all this -- I sewed all the edges like a pillow -- I layered them all together (including the batting) and then just flipped it inside out and finished off the edge. I was actually giggly about how easy it was! The pillow is also just a couple pieces of fleece and is no-sew. I just made fringe and tied them in square knots. Then I put more of the quilt batting inside and finished off the edge. The roll is how the nap mat looks when it's all rolled up. I just added snaps to some grosgrain ribbon, sewed the ribbon into the seams, and it snaps together to finish it all off. Easy peasy!