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Crafty Topics
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Great Just for Baby Websites
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Care Wear is a wonderful organization founded in Washington D.C. They offer a wonderful selection of free sewing, knitting and crochet patterns for premature and low birth weight infants.
Editor's Note: This site has a list of hospitals across the US and even in some other countries that are looking for handmade items for their tiniest patients. If you have some time and a bit of fabric or yarn; take some time to help comfort these children and their families.
http://www.carewear.org/index.cfm?pid=patterns/_patterns.cfm
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Just for Baby Crafty Tip
When making hand-crafted items for infants in the hospital, be sure to use washable materials and to not wash them with fabric softeners, perfumes or sachet as these may irritate their fragile skin.
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Ideas for customizing your diaper bags and all of your baby gear to coordinate with your chosen nursery themes and decor. Why settle for generic, store bought baby items and gifts when it's so easy to personalize your baby's things?
http://www.unique-baby-gear-ideas.com/diaper-bag-personalized.html
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Just for Baby Crafty Tip
If you are searching for a more personal baby shower gift for a friend, consider making a diaper bag out of fabric that coordinates with her crib bedding set or nursery color scheme. Even if you have not made friends with your sewing machine, you can personalize a ready made baby bag with a monogram or by attaching some pretty trim by hand.
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Tips and ideas to make your own baby stuff. Make a unique baby wardrobe, boutique baby style, DIY nursery decor, making your own baby food, toys, gifts and more.
http://www.make-your-own-baby-stuff.com
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Just for Baby Crafty Tip
Choose very simple and easy baby craft projects and make them extraordinary by using bright colors and patterns to make them pop.
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We create fun, funky and fashionable accessories for you and your baby! Visit our website to see our cute burp cloth sets, blankets, custom wipe cases, bow holders, room signs, birthday hats and more!
http://www.sweetnsassybaby.etsy.com
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Just for Baby Crafty Tip
When fusing fabric to something, apply the fuse to the piece of fabric before you cut out the pattern. This will cut down on fraying.
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Baby crafts project tutorials, free baby clothes sewing patterns, baby carrier patterns, toy making instructions and a monthly baby crafts newsletter.
http://www.make-baby-stuff.com
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Just for Baby Crafty Tip
When making baby gifts for an expecting mother as a gift, check her registry and take a look at the baby bedding she has registered for. This will give you a color scheme and theme ideas for your crafts and your handmade item is sure to fit in!
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Hand crafted items made by me. Cloth fitted diapers, sock monkey dolls, bibs, children accessories & more! I'm really into recycling items and turning them into usable, unique items.
http://hyenacart.com/Monkeybizness
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Just for Baby Crafty Tip
Recycle items usually thrown out like plastic containers etc..and use them in your crafting, not only are you saving money on crafting supplies but helping the environment to boot. I use plastic baby wipe containers to store my sewing/craft supplies in. I use empty dish soap bottles to create cute little girl purses with crochet tops.
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This is the home of the Hebrew Birth Plate, a ceramic Birth Certificate carrying your baby's Jewish name and Hebrew birth date. The Hebrew Birth Plate is made of a bisque ceramic tile, silkscreen printed and then hand painted with acrylic colors and hand written according to the custom order with a fountain pen using acrylic ink and then coated with acrylic varnish and framed in a solid wood frame.
http://www.jewishbabynames.net/
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Just for Baby Crafty Tip
To get a good result with polymeric, water-basted lacquer, apply at least 5 coats. I apply one coat when the tile is cold and then heat the tile. When the lacquer is dry, I cool down the tile and apply a new coat and repeat for as many times as I want coats of lacquer.
I found out this method by myself, but later I discovered that this technique is very similar to the Chinese lacquer techniques already used at least for 1600 years working with the Chinese lacquer, which is a natural
varnish made from the sap of the lacquer tree.
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This is the perfect site to find unique custom baby gifts! Specializing in adorable baby shoes, boutique hair bows, designer fabric bibs, burp cloths, custom welcome wreaths for baby, and beautiful dresses! Boutique style and quality at an affordable price!
http://www.tinytoesandbows.etsy.com
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Just for Baby Crafty Tip
Use a wood burning tool to trim satin and grosgrain ribbon. It trims the ribbon and seals the end to prevent fraying in one cut.
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On this site, we offer for sale a series of videos which show you how to make different baby diaper cakes using video instruction as well as directions and a supplies checklist you can print out. We cover the most popular styles like 3 tier and 4 tier designs, including the rolled version. These make great baby gifts to welcome the new baby home.
http://www.howtomakeadiapercake.com
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Just for Baby Crafty Tip
Here's 3 tips for making diaper cakes:
1. Never use pins to attach any item to a diaper cake. You don't want the new mom to discover them by accident (ouch).
2. For the rolled styled diaper cakes, buy the translucent rubber band so that you don't see the brown color of the standard rubber band. You can find these in the beauty supply section of most stores.
3. Some diapers have printed patterns. Decide up front if a printed pattern would look good in your final design. If not, choose an all white diaper.
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At Overall Baby, we are reinventing the look of overalls for infants and toddlers. From your basic and boring denim overall to something fun and cute. Our overalls are offered in a variety of fabrics and prints. They are super durable (all seams are double stitched) and can easily be grown into (since the straps can be adjusted) making them a very economical purchase. They are the perfect playtime wear. Practical and fashionable!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/overallbaby
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Just for Baby Crafty Tip
My best crafty tip would be to never be afraid to make mistakes! With sewing, mistakes can always be undone, thanks to a trusty seam ripper. When being creative, you have to explore new ideas. You have to be open to possibilities and results. So making a mistake every so often is no big deal. In fact, when it comes to being creative, I don't think there is such a thing as making mistakes. Its all part of the process of exploration!
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