Our baby's clothing can hold such nostalgia for us parents.
I remember the first few newborn growers I bought to bring to the hospital with me. They looked SO tiny that I couldn't imagine any creature small enough to wear them. Then my son, the Sparrow, was born, a little early and so very little that these newborn outfits wouldn't fit for months yet. My mother was dispatched to buy, well virtually everything (never did get that hospital bag packed).
These baby clothes can bring all the anticipation and fear and giddy delight of those early days back to me in a flash. I see myself folding them on my big bump. I see myself hanging laundry at 4 am with the Sparrow asleep, snuggled against me in a sling. I am not a wildly sentimental person but the tiny baby clothes always get me. I gave most of his clothes to friends to fold on their own bumps but have kept back my favourites to remind me to remember those days.
5 adorable things to do with old baby clothes
Make sun prints:
Visit
Martha Stewart for the tutorial
Make old baby socks into tiny rabbits, chicks and eggs:
Visit
Inhabitots for the tutorial
Make Button Art with scraps of your favourite baby clothes:
Visit
Make it - Love it for a tutorial on making covered buttons
Make an unusual wall display from old patterned baby clothes:
Via
Curbly
For a slightly more ambitious project, incorporate the little outfits into a memory quilt:
Image via
Piece and Quilt
Visit
here for a quilting tutorial
