Baby Shower Gift: 12 Vests for Each Month of the First Year

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Pub­lished 07/06/2014

Can you remem­ber a child­hood fash­ion mis­take? Not that it was a real mis­take, because you did mean to wear it. But rather some­thing so bad­ly put togeth­er you wish your moth­er would have stopped you before you got out the door.

handmade childrens cotton vest

 I can cer­tain­ly remem­ber mine — and my sis­ter Tess’. My sis­ter real­ly liked to wear vests. There was a peri­od of time when she would always wear hand­made hol­i­day vests (which my mom made her). She lit­er­al­ly had a draw­er full of dif­fer­ent cot­ton vests for each season/holiday of the year.

So when it was time to make some­thing for Tess’ baby show­er gift, I knew exact­ly what I was going to make her baby — HANDMADE FESTIVE VESTS!

cotton vests baby shower gift

I made a vest for each month of the first year. And since the vests are all reversible, there are real­ly 24 dif­fer­ent vest options. I orig­i­nal­ly planned on embroi­der­ing “1 Month, 2 months…etc” on each vest, but decid­ed not to.

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Every print has a sto­ry behind it.

I also chose to elim­i­nate but­tons. Not only did I save time, but I think it’s also safer for the baby.

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I hope every­one had a nice 4th of July weekend!

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This was designed by Aunt Katie!

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2 thoughts on “Baby Shower Gift: 12 Vests for Each Month of the First Year

  1. Melwyk

    What a fun and adorable gift! Love them all, but espe­cial­ly the book fab­ric. Where did you find that?

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    1. marusya

      Thanks!!! I bought it from a local quilt store. I’m not sure what the brand was.

      Reply

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