Baby sleeping bag project

I'm back. I have so much I wanna share. Everyday I made up my entry in my mind, full of stories of my days with my baby, and yet at the end of the day I could never find time to come type out each entry that I wanted to share. Alas, this motherhood diary will never be complete with all the thoughts that I wanted to keep.

Anyway I'm here because I'm doing a research on baby sleeping bag (or sleeping sack) patterns. Yup patterns, for sewing. My darling baby keeps kicking her swaddle all over and sometimes I even find it next to her head. So I worry that one day she may grab it and cover her face/head... and it will be more dangerous to cover her with a blanket so that will never be an option. I started looking at baby sleeping bags but they are either too thick for our warm weather (and I sleep without aircon), or super freaking expensive (for those "suitable for tropical weather").

I wonder how that mere pieces of cloth stitched together can ever end up so highly priced but well, many baby stuff are priced to empty loving parents' pockets. Right? So I thought may be I could start making one for her... just try. May be. With material of my choice. And if it worked I may just make somemore and may even make for friends! How about that? But well... me being myself. I'm always  too busy to start doing things that I wanted to do inside my mind. Writing blog entries included.

Anyway just a head start, I founded some links with patterns that I can use. Gonna bookmark them here in this entry, and share with others who may be interested in making their own.

http://smalldreamfactory.blogspot.sg/2011/11/free-pattern-baby-sleeping-bag.html
http://www.favoritethings.net/patterns/children/hushabye_baby
http://www.sleepingbaby.net/jan/Baby/sleepsack.html
http://made-of-cloth.blogspot.sg/2011/05/how-to-make-toddler-sleep-sac-without.html
http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=271822.msg3070131#msg3070131
http://withatangledskein.blogspot.sg/2008/02/sew-sewmaking-fleece-sleep-sack.html
http://www.luvinthemommyhood.com/2010/06/dress-shirt-sleep-sack-tutorial-with.html

(The last one is amazing! You can do it with any unwanted shirt from your hubby, your dad or dad-in-law, your bro or bro-in-law etc. It's good for our weather, save on buying new fabrics and buttons or zippers, recycle old material, and really sweet too!)

Okay, this is definitely one project which I dunno if I'd ever get started! And if you come across any cheap sleeping sacks available in Singapore or online, please please please leave me a comment and let me know. I'll really appreciate the gesture. :)

PS. If I'm ever too free (NEVER!) I may even start on this, this, this or this!!