Monday and yesterday I did a job that really hurt. I put away all of Baby Pear's 3-6 month clothing. She had only been in them for about 2 weeks (longer for the sleepers). For a lot of reasons Baby will be the last pear added to our household, so it is time to pass things on. Some of the clothing was new to baby and only worn once or twice, a couple outfits not at all. It was hard to pack it up knowing that when she finally gets out of her harness she may even be out of the 6-9 month clothing.
We have friends due any day, and I am boxing stuff up to ship to them. If they do not have a girl I will pull out all the girl stuff for a neighbor due in February. (We did not know that Miss Pear was a girl until she was born, so we have lots of generic stuff - plus I love baby blue on girls).
But even knowing that these clothes were going to a good home it was hard.
So I am saving all my favorites, all the special ones. The outfits that:
- Miss Pear wore when we filed the final application for my green card
- Baby wore to ER and then home from the hospital
- both girls wore and wore and wore
- were special gifts
My plan is to make a blanket for each girl out of them. It is all knit cotton that I am saving so it will just be squares sewn together and then quilted (probably knot quilts). For the back I am going to use their receiving blankets and flannel crib sheets. At the rate I cannot part with stuff they may both end up with queen sized quilts!
I am also saving their dresses for a second quilt for each.
It is definitely making boxing stuff up and passing it on easier.
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4 comments:
I often visit your blog and have been following your baby news as my youngest daughter was due close to the same time as you were with your latest addition. Your ideas for using special clothes for quilts is a good one. As a mom of four and grandma to three I want to tell you what I did with those "special" outfits-and there were many. I saved them in a box and occasionally on birthdays took them out to show each child and reminisced with them about their babyhood and childhood. Now that they are beginning families of their own, at baby showers I have gifted those items to my kids to be used on their new babies. This has been such a special thing. I have pictures of them in many of these outfits. We have taken pictures of the grand kids in these saved outfits and put them next to the pictures of their parents in the same clothing. This has been a fun tradition that my grown kids have treasured.
Karen
I have a "clothesline" hanging on the wall of my laundry room. Clothes-pinned to the line are several sentimental baby clothing items from each of my girls. They need a washing two or three times a year, but there they will stay for now.
It's hard to give baby items away. Especially when you feel that chapter closing in your life. We are hit doubly hard as we are now giving away our youngest daughter and our son's clothes as they outgrow them. Tough stuff...
What a fun idea! I have saved "special" outfits for both of my children.
When my son was a baby my MIL gave us a couple of outfits that my hubby had worn as a baby.
My son was able to wear them for a time as well and now they are tucked away also. Maybe for our grandson someday.... in many, MANY years to come! ;-)
I know how you feel with the clothes. I saved a few of my favorite outfits of my son's in a memory box...I can still smell his babiness on them. Such sweet memories.
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