Recycling a baby’s sleep gown

Life • May 31st, 2008

Joaquin’s newborn sleep gowns. How I loved them, how I loved them. Incredibly, although they’re made for babies up to three months old, they still fit him. The only reason why I stopped using them is that my baby is very mobile now and really needs his legs.

So a few days ago, I was ready to finally move the four gowns to a storage box, and maybe it is that this week I’m going through a spurt of creativity and crafts, but I suddenly was hit with a very good idea. I could easily alter these gowns to give Joaquin some legs!… What’s best: With the warmer weather coming, he needs PJs in light materials, but because he still sleeps in a sleep sack, he also needs long sleeves. The sleep gowns? They’re the perfect match. And the incremental cost? Just $1.90 for five snap fasteners per gown.

Because I’m currently busy, working on two or three more crafts projects plus baby caring, I offer images (not words) to describe the process. In the future, I’ll probably add the quick and dirty process on how to turn a sleep gown into a two piece PJ set, which I intend to do very soon with a longer gown Joaquin didn’t get to wear much.