Every year I swear to myself that next year, I won't be hauling ass ('scuse my French) right before Christmas, trying to get gifts done.

Yet every year, I'm in the same mad rush to finish or get things off to longarmers or the post office. C'est la vie I suppose - tis' the season to be frantic!

This season I've been trying to finish quilt tops and work on Etsy orders for those gifting my handmade infant scale slings for the holidays. (...and a sale right now, 15% off with the code SALE15)

midwifery infant scale sling, by Sew at Home Mummy on Etsy 💕 Buy handmade 💕

One of the quilts I've been working on I can't show you - I'm bound and determined to write a pattern for it, so it's on the hush-hush right now. But, I'm just working on piecing the backing today so I can drop it at my friend Sarah's longarm (she's @sparklesaxdesigns on Instagram) so she can finish it off for me and get it ready for binding.

I've also been working on some other handmade gifts, one of which I'll give you a tiny sneak peek of (in case the recipient is reading...):


It's a thread catcher container, with the tutorial from The Sewing Chick. It's the first time I've tried using a stiff interfacing (Peltex 70*) - the pattern calls for duckcloth but I thought I'd kick up the stiffness a few hundred notches (go big or go home, no?) I tried cording for the first time with a thick leather cord I picked up for $5/100yards years back and never had a project I could figure out to use it on - I like the contrast of the navy against the orange.

I love it so much I've added it to my to-do-list for myself. And I think I'll need 2! Why not, I deserve it, right? I'm planning on making sewing machine covers from some Bonnie and Camille I've been hoarding for years, so I think I'll make matching thread catchers. And maybe pin cushions. Selfish sewing, right?

So! What are YOU madly sewing right now? Tick tock, tick tock! (I don't even want to think about how many days are left until Christmas...)



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I've been really lucky this year to be a bit busier than last year (my first year) on Etsy. I've just finished updating my swatch catalog, and I thought I'd (shamelessly!) self promote my little store for a minute or two.

If you haven't checked out my little store and would like to, you can click {here} to see it.

I sell midwife infant scale slings to midwives and expectant moms all over the world, and it really warms my heart to sew and create these custom baby items. (If you don't know what these are, they're fabric slings used to hold babies in while they're weighed during a midwife post-partum exam; the d-rings hook onto a scale and the baby is suspended in the sling while being weighed).

I put a lot of thought into the thread choice to pair it just right with the fabrics, and I have a ton of fun sewing them and shopping for fabrics for the shop.

It's definitely an art to try and stock designer fabrics you think that others (of whom you don't know!) might like, and it's a learning process, but I love every minute of it.

Whenever I can, I go out of my way to locally source as much of my stock and supplies as possible - I believe in supporting local small businesses (like myself!)

I will most definitely never be a millionaire plugging away at this little shop, and I do plan to add more custom and made to order items to my virtual shelves at some point, but I have a lot of fun doing it. And that, my friends, is what matters!

It gives me something different to do, and the thought of each sling holding numerous newborn babies over its lifetime just makes me smile.

If you're interested in having me make you a custom, made to order midwife infant scale sling, you can contact me {here} through email or through Etsy {here}.

current swatch availability (subject to change, current as of March 6 2015)

If you'd like a custom order of some other nature, feel free to contact me, I'm always up for the challenge!