
{Catching up with…} Scant days before our adorable baby came into the world, my remarkable wife fired up her mom’s sewing machine and decided to start with making so many thing… Then we busied ourselves with a few photo collages combining these handmade items with custom tie-dye shirts received from brother/uncle Dan and card from Kim, Brad, Ben, April (among other delights to be documented later).
Started with cloth diapers (not pictured) / easy right? So Then moved on to these incredibly handy “pee caps” (meaning little cloth “cones” to put over his willie when changing diapers…
– as it turns out, lil fellas in general often use the sweet freedom of a diaper change to let loose with their venting)…
Then made a completely cute soft cotton hat with “io” initials (which i want to make into a rubber stamp as well).
Then came bibs! oh the bibs! using Aloha print cloth i’ve had in my stash since 1996 or so, these hav a velcro tab for easy (and safe) on and off and style points to spare.
Continue reading Diary: sewing things for Ichiro + tie-dyes and pee-caps