Put A Ring On It

My most recent projects are for my friend's baby who's due in a month.  I'll talk about the other one later.  For now, let's talk nursing covers.  Some people prefer the names "hooter hider" or "utter cover".  I'm a classy girl so I'm using the term "nursing cover".  The fact that I'm classy didn't preclude me from making about 10 separate "boning" jokes as I was ordering parts on ebay to complete my project.  "I'm in need of a good boning".  "Does anybody know if you can get a good boning on ebay?"  "I got my boning today.  Man!  It was so much longer than I thought it would be!"
I'm classy but not too much.  I'm just the right level of classy.
I say that both projects are for my friend's baby, but technically, this one is for the babymama, which is why I used a grownup and somewhat girly combination of prints.  I figured that the baby will have his share of  items covered in frogs and snails and cars and trains.  Since his mother will be wearing this item (and he will be nowhere to be seen except for maybe one foot), I decided to make it with her in mind. 
Nursing covers have become pretty popular, especially in Utah.  I don't know about the rest of the United States.  But since the thought of an American woman feeding her child without running into a smelly bathroom stall or going to sit alone for 20 boring minutes causes many normally rational adults to recoil in shock and terror, they seem to be a good solution.  I feel kind of bad that they weren't the rage when I had my two kids.  Nor was the other project I chose.  But both were fun to make and easy.  I hope my friend delivers her baby two weeks early so she can get to using these items right away.  (The universe owes her this much since her last baby was about two weeks late.) 
I finished the thing in record time and all I had left to do was to put a ring on it.  Unfortunately, when the rings I ordered on ebay arrived, the first term that came to mind was something Carrie Bradshaw would refer to as "ghetto gold".  Also, the size seemed wrong even though both rings pictured are packaged as 1 1/4 inches. 

Hm.  Go figure.  But I liked the black I found at JoAnns more anyway.  While I was at JoAnns, something else caught my eye.  It was a display top made using Simplicity 2378.

Since I have an aversion to buttons and zippers, I likey.  I likey a lot.  This pattern retails for around $13.  I bid $5 for one on ebay.  I really don't like to spend more than $5 for a pattern.  (More on that later.)  I might not win it, but even if I don't, I have a feeling that there are lots of patterns I have already that I could adapt to use D rings as fasteners.  NOW I'M SO EXCITED I JUST CAN'T STAND IT!!!!!

Once I completed the cover with rings and boning (he he he), I felt the urge to try it on, so I did.  I skipped round my bedroom and sang "You can't see my boobies! You can't see my boobies!" (tune of ring around the rosie) to my husband as he did logic puzzles and tried his best to ignore me.    I hope that visual doesn't keep my friend from enjoying this gift, handmade with love.
She can use the nursing cover or, if she prefers, she can stage a "nurse in" at the local Burger King and go au natural.  Either way, I had fun making it so that's all that really matters.

If you'd like to try making one of these bad boys, all you need to do is google the terms "nursing cover" and "tutorial".  Don't ever buy a pattern for one or you are a schmuck.

And now for some tunes...
(Seriously, you should click on this one.  You might think you know what you're gonna get, but I bet you don't.)