this is brilliant. fantastic idea, to put in the zip upside down. i think you are quite skilled at sewing, or at least engineering, to think of something like this, “outside the box” or in this case, outside the typical pattern. good job.

lookin good! as for sewing, i have a machine, but havent mastered it yet (i actually bought it to help with the steeks on my norwegian sweaters, haha. i did okay! used it three times. but i plan to make more). but as with knitting, you just keep at it and you will improve. thats what i keep telling myself! gambatte ne! (^_^)
-hahna from rfc. :D

ps ms cheeks are sooooo cute!

We loved those for the kids when they were little. Of course we purchased ours. You’re awesome!

Oh, another thing you can add is a little opening in the back and front so that if you need to put her in her car seat, you can put her in, thread the bottom restraint through the openings, and click her in.

She looks more cute in every picture you post.
I made similar bags for my daughter before the advent of polar fleece. I think you did very well as it isn’t the easiest fabric to sew. I find that sewing the seam twice, first in regular old straight stitch then a second time to overcast it is easier than trying to do it in one step. Did you use a zipper foot when inserting the zipper? It’s next to impossible to do well without one and I always need to pause and raise or lower the zipper pull(by raising the pressure foot while I have the needle in the fabric) to get it out of the way before sewing past it. Either way, smoothly stitched or not, it’s going to do the job and she will be warm as well as adorable!

Well, I meant to do this on the previous post, but for some reason the comment box wasn’t there. Anyway, although it may take some time, the conversion to whole wheat will eventually feel natural. Nine years ago I started to bake all my own bread; today I not only bake it all, I also grain my own whole wheat flour. There was a long in-between period of mixing whole wheat and white flour, but last summer I made some white flour bread and found to my surprise that it tasted — well — empty and flavorless. I thought I missed it! And now I realize that I wouldn’t like to go back to it at all. (NOTE: I haven’t yet started to cakes in whole wheat flour, but I have done cookies. It can be quite good.)

I love the photo at the end! Is that confusion on M’s face?

Wow, just like the Snuggie (as seen on TV). You rock.

She’s too adorable for words.

What a cutie! That sleep sac looks very cozy.

I think it looks great. Put the baby in it and it looks even better!

Sometimes overstitching is used to control stretch in fabric, which may be why the bottom ended up wavy — that and you’re probably right and your stitch length was too short. Fleece has a one-way stretch if I recall right. I’d have to look since some of them also have two-way stretch.

It looks good either way. Baby M won’t care either way! Good job!

That child is gorgeous, period!

It looks great to me! We are using sleeping bags for our little ones too, but I have to admit that mine are bought second-hand from ebay rather than sewn by me. I’d like to try it, but I don’t seem to get time to sew much of anything lately (I’m still in awe at your nappy sewing skills!!).