… and the last Christmas present I made this year was a baby swing for Theo.
I’d made one for Arthur last year and it’s been a big hit; he loves sitting in it and being pushed, for quite lengthy periods at a time, actually. Speaking from personal experience here, ahem …!
Tim cut the dowel for me and I ordered some of Cassie’s own fabric from her line on Spoonflower. Of course this was all meant to be a surprise, but obviously the designer gets notified of every sale they’ve made, and the buyer’s name too, so it was not much of a surprise in the end! I like to think she didn’t really know exactly what it was going to be in the end though 😉
This is Cassie’s zebra crossing design, available here, and I ordered it on the lightweight cotton twill base. I had to keep this little bit from the selvedge and pop it on somewhere, obviously 🙂
I used the same pattern I used for Arthur’s, reproduced here. It’s based on this one from the blog The Thud, but mine has different measurements, everywhere! Also I added the safety belt and two cushions to mine, again; one flat cushion to sit in the bottom, and another fat, bouffy one for a little back support.
The “fat” cushion is stuffed, elsewhere I used double layered wadding throughout, and was careful that the print faced “up” everywhere possible.
I had just barely enough fabric from my order of 1m to cut it all out, and had to do a little creative piecing on a two corners of the flat cushion to get it out, I don’t think my piecing is too heinous, but in any case it’s going to spend most of its time squished underneath a cute baby bottom.
Again, if I get a good picture of Theo in his new swing, I will certainly update my blog post here and put one in… I do know that he loves swings so I can’t wait to see him jiggling about happily in this one!
HERE HE IS!! SO CUTE!!
