Sleep Sacks

     Charlotte is 4 months old this week and growing fast. She has more than doubled her birth weight and has added almost 5 inches to her length! ( I guess we will call it height when she is standing up and walking?) And her little feet are pushing out at the ends of her sleep sacks.
   Kate prefers the sleep sacks that have a zipper on the side instead of the middle ... easier to place a sleeping Charlotte on the sack and zip her in rather than trying to tuck her feet and arms into the ones with the zipper in the middle and with sewn shoulder seams and possibly waking her up.

     I saw some cute material at Atlantic Fabrics yesterday, used a shortened duvet zipper and created a new sleep sack with room for little feet to move. Didn't add the buttons to the shoulders yet ... Kate has decided that she would prefer snaps. The inside is thin flannelette.

     I added an extra little flap that can be snapped shut over the top of the zipper. It is reversible but I expect that Charlotte would prefer the soft flannelette next to her skin especially on some of the cool summer evenings that Nova Scotia experiences. Also added a bit of 'quilting' to keep the flannelette and the cotton outside sections together.
     [I created my own pattern based on a newborn sleep sack Charlotte had been given as a baby gift.]