It’s after 5 on the “official” due/guess date, and Griffin is still pulling his “Hell no, we won’t go!” act, so it looks like it’ll be at least another day before we get to meet him. Sigh.

Over the weekend I decided to mix up the knitting with a little sewing. I ordered a bunch of cute sale/clearance flannel from fabric.com last week (I’m beginning to really love that place!) and decided to make some nice big receiving/nursing blankets. They were really simple to make, just 2 different pieces of flannel sewn together, but they’re thick, warm, and cuddly and should be good for swaddling, letting the baby crawl on, and all sorts of things. They’re a good bit bigger than the commercial blankets I’ve seen at around 44″ x 34″ or so. I used the leftover fabric to make some burp cloths, too. I am like the Eskimos, I waste no part of the yardage! 😉

My trusty old Kenmore sewing machine has a small selection of embroidery stitches, so I got a little fancy with some of the edgings.

I guess I should be grateful that Griffin taking his good old time means that I’ve had the opportunity to make all this stuff for him, but there are limits to how long I want to waddle around like this!