Sheets
After drooling over various baby “patterns” for a long time I have decided that it is absolutely rediculous to pay $250 for some sheets, a skirt, a bumper that can only be used for 2-3 months before becoming a strangulation hazard, and a blanket you can’t even use. Since I own a sewing machine and can sew myself costumes, the idea of sewing rectangle sheets is pretty darn easy. So I think that’s what I’m going to do.
Here’s the deal: I want to start sewing now to try to figure out how to make them. But, unfortunately, we currently do not know if a) we’ll be having a boy or a girl and b) if we’ll ever be having a baby in the next, say, 5 years. But other people have babies. So if you want me to make you some sheets and skirts? I can do that. Kills two birds with one stone, really. Just let me know.
(Just how many sheets do you need, anyways? At least a few, I would think, considering they can get spit up on and pooped and peed on.)
But if you get mattress pads to go on top of the sheets, they don’t get dirty… I think I have 6 sets of sheets, but that is also considering I have a convertible crib, so in theory this mattress should last me well into toddler-dom.
Oh! And, that said, you could always make one or two plain white sheets for yourself as well, since you’re wanting convertible as well.
That’s the other thing…. people get really cute sheets and then put a mattress pad on top of it, LOL.
That’s because you see the sheets through the slats of the crib, silly ;)
I guess… still sounds funny!
yep- that’s how it works. Half the crap I thought we would need-we don’t