How to Make Baby Leg Warmers

In my quest to make myself more crafty, and to make myself feel like a domestic diva I want to document my different projects progress on my blog. I'm hoping for one crafty-related post a week, and I've been making Spawnie a lot so it shouldn't be so hard!

I can't take all of the credit for my ideas though, so I'll show you where I get them!

I had never heard of baby leg warmers or BabyLegs until a few months ago. I hear they're amazingly convenient for diaper changes cause you don't have to take down/ unbutton any pants. They're also nice to keep your baby's legs from getting rug burn while they're crawling around.I thought they were totally adorable but worried of Spawnie was a boy they may look a little silly on him. I took a chance though and bought some leg warmers from Dittany Baby. But they're called skidpants there. I'm still not sure of the difference, I think it's a brand thing, but either way they're adorable! I bought these BYU ones on sale for $4.50 at Dittany baby!Once I found out Spawnie was a girl I wanted more! I started shopping around but realized the price for one pair easily is $12-$15 for a PAIR! Don't get me wrong, I'm all for spending the money on cute stuff, but I'm also a bargain hunter.

I was tweeting with people about baby leg warmers and a few women told me they were really easy to make. I was worried shopping for fabric, cutting and measuring would take me forever so I was a little hesitant at first but a few sent me links to a tutorial on how to make baby leg warmers from knee socks!

So, to see how easy it was I tried it myself! I bought a 6 pack of women's knee socks off Ebay for $13.1. Cut the feet off the bottoms.2. Turn them inside out and fold up the bottom.
3. Stitch around them flip right side out. (I hand stitched these during my lunch break at work one night).Viola!! It took seriously about half an hour to make a pair and that's because I was HAND STITCHING. My sewing machine is having some problems but it would literally take me about a minute to make a pair using my machine. But that should give women who don't have/ know how to use sewing machines some courage.

So there you go! I'll make 6 pairs of baby leg warmers for $13. Not bad eh? Hopefully I can keep this craftiness up! I'm becoming more domestic than I ever imagined!

Dittany Baby: March of Dimes Sponsor #29

Short story: I.. The self-proclaimed "Baby Makin' Machine," found making a baby isn't as easy as I had hoped. So to take my mind off baby makin' I'm spending a month raising money to help March of Dimes babies. Read the long story about how this fundraiser got started here!
Read my NEW (10/14) latest TTC update here.

I love Dittany Baby. I have their button flashing over on the side of my blog and I love perusing around their site when I'm dreaming about shopping for my future baby. I'm not SOLD on UT yet but I'm pretty sure I could be ok with having my little girl wear one of these cute things!!

It's a mom and dad run company with Shannon and her husband and their two best friends.

"My husband is in charge of the gaphic arts/design, Tressy runs the workroom/sewing production," Shannon said. "James runs the order processing and me... Well everything else LOL!"

Dittany Baby started in 2006 when Shannon's first born began to crawl. When he did he dragged one of his legs and got severe rug burn from his knees to his toes.

"I had to come up with a way to protect his leg so I went to the sewing machine and sewed a tube of fabric to cover his leg," she said. "From there 'skidpants' were born."

"Around the same time he had far outgrown his Baby Bjorn (I have big babies!!) and I wanted to walk around a historical market in Washington DC. I did some online research and found out about slings. That night I made one and took it to the market the next day. After 20 some blocks of walking in flip flops in downtown DC I was sold. There was no need to convince me further that slings were not AMAZING and a must have!!!"

As far as personally, Shannon is living her dream of being a mom. "Everything else is just a bonus." Her goal with Dittany Baby is to make luxury products at a price that everyone can afford!

"We are constantly looking for ways to bring the savings to moms," she said. "In April we dropped our prices 40-60% by revising our wholesale program because a mom shouldn’t have to pay $60.00 for a boutique quality sling!"

$50 gift card to Dittany Baby! There is sooo much stuff you can get there, leggings, tutus, wraps, slings! The list goes on!

If you donate just $20 to the charity I'll give you 20 tickets to win this prize from Dittany Baby! Not only are you helping a charity but you get 20 tickets in our GIANT drawing! AND you get a GUARANTEED prize from ME! One of which can be two of these cute baby hairbows! Look I made these!!

(Or you can get a custom doggie bandanna instead) You can donate by clicking the "chip in" button to the right or by clicking here. (Paypal is NOT associated with the drawing, just with donations. Questions about the drawing? Email me at babymakingmachine{at}gmail.com)

This is just one of more than 40 prizes (worth over $1500) that's up for grabs in the drawing! See the full list here. 100% of the funds raised are going to March of Dimes, to help save babies!

Read how this got started here!
Check out all of the prizes here!
Enter my 2nd Cutest Baby Contest here!
Have a giveaway? List it here! Offer extra entries to your peeps for donating!