Project Maternity: Maternity Clothing Inspiration Round Up

Hi everybody.  I had other things planned to share today, but it’s not happening today.  We are having another major drain back up (the 2nd in 3 weeks) and we’re dealing with that this week.  We found the first part of the problems Valentine’s Day after dinner.  We were working all evening on that one, so needless to say our Valentine’s Day was lame this year!  I left my house and escaped to my mom’s house yesterday because I didn’t want to deal with it.  And today I’ll be over at my in-laws doing laundry.  Turns out that we’ll be installing a brand new set of sewage/drain pipes this weekend for our whole house (thank goodness we have a smallish house and only one bathroom to fix!).  Sounds like a fun weekend doesn’t it?  So if I’m hit and miss the next couple weeks, know that I’m dealing with messier situations (quite literally!) ha!

So today, I will show you some of my favorite DIY maternity projects. I have them all posted on my DIY Maternity pinboard, but I will directly link you to the blogs they come from.

Let’s start with the basics.  When you get pregnant, your pants stop fitting really fast!  I tried a couple belly band tutorials, and using regular knit just didn’t keep my pants up!  What a a problem!  I ended up learning about this method, and absolutely loved it.  I had to sacrifice a few old undershirts, but I’ll get new ones later.  Pants staying up, and new undershirts later!  If you can’t sew, I bet you can cut!  This tutorial is just for you.  I wore these over my unbuttoned/unzipped pants for a long while before breaking down and making maternity jeans.  Check out this lovely tutorial at DIY Maternity.

The rest of my round up is tops, but I do have some dresses pinned, so you can check that out.  And I covered what I did with pants in this post.

For some of my matenity clothing,  I simply bought tops a couple sizes too big.  I have very small shoulders, so my necklines were too big and gaping open most of the time.  This tutorial at Mad Mim shows you a quick and easy fix for cinching in necklines to make them less revealing, and super cute at the same time.  I will be doing this to non-maternity clothes that have huge necklines as well!  She also gives a fabulous tip on making any shirt a shirred maternity top.  Her secret is instead of using a zig zag stitch to attach the elastic, you use a straight stitch!  It makes the shirt bunch up less—hooray!  I haven’t tried this method, but it is on my list for sure!

Now isn’t that top just amazing!  I love the front.  I would add sleeves to it, because I’m not the sleeveless/tank top type (and it’s cold outside right now!), but I love it.  Head on over to Happy Together to see the tutorial.

Now this and the next top are going to get combined to make me a top like this.  I found a men’s dress shirt at a thrift store for $2.00, so I thought I would give these projects a try.  Head on over to DIY Maternity for the full tutorial.  (By the way, this website specializes in maternity and nursing DIY projects—it’s a gem!)

This one is adorable too, and it’s anthropologie inspired—even better right!?  This is another project brought to us by DIY Maternity.  I love the neckline/collar of this shirt (although it’s tricky to see in this picture---you’ll have to look at the tutorial for that).  For the tutorial, click here.

Well, I think that’s it for me today!  I am really hoping to get a couple little projects done to show you soon, but we will see what our plumbing projects bring us! :)  Hope you’re having a great day!

Thanks for reading!

~Lynette~