I took a HUGE break from the 2010 Sewing Calendar, but here is the latest (I’m way behind)… I decided to make an ice pack cozy instead of a pacifier pouch (since we don’t use those anymore) for this project:

February 22: Pacifier Pouch by Jana P. Nielson at lolaagain.blogspot.com

I simply made a rectangle about 7 inches by I forgot…should really write these things down (12 or 13 inches maybe); with two fabrics, right sides together and then turned out and topstitched all the way around. I folded one end up to form a pouch and sewed the sides; adhered some velcro with the iron and ta-da!

I’m pretty sure that’s my head in all the pictures, but I couldn’t get rid of it with the amount of effort I was willing to put in at the time.

I made four matching ones for daycare and now I think we need two for our house…and probably every kid needs one.

On a related note, I stopped buying those gel ice packs for the kids because someone (I won’t name names) always bites it and makes it leak that weird blue ooze. Now, I just keep the girls’ old teething rings in the freezer and they use those. Or we make our own in a zip lock bag with rubbing alcohol and water (equal parts). That’s kind of fun because they can draw on the bags first with sharpies. Of course, those don’t last long at our house and eventually we’re back to the teething rings. Daycare uses hard lunch box ice packs like the one above. Either way, it’s always nice to have something just the right size to put it in.