Juice Seeks Crafty Advice

Last weekend, Julie gave me a heads-up on a great estate sale in our neighborhood, a.k.a. "Death of a Crafter." The lady had a huge room upstairs piled with needlework, vintage fabric, patterns, books, and half-finished projects. (Juice pauses, considers own mortality, shrugs).

So I LOADED up. This other lady and I were rummaging through everything and having a blast trying to figure out what projects she had been working on, figuring out what we would do with certain fabric finds, and just generally getting all giddy whenever we found a particularly cool thing. There was one point when she found a dress that the lady had been knitting and she shrieked and yelled across the room "Oh my God, you HAVE to have this!" She tossed it toward me and we both kind of squealed with delight at its coolness and the people running the sale rushed upstairs to investigate because we were making such a scene. What DORKS. I'm telling you, though. It was such a great sale. I had to make three separate trips to my car to load up all my purchases!

ANYHOO, Here's what I need help with. I picked up a whole bunch of vintage children's clothing patterns. What should I do with them? Initial ideas are cover them in vinyl and make baby bibs (but am worried about waterproofing, even with the vinyl), or maybe a big tote bag/diaper bag thing, again, covering the patterns with vinyl to proof them. Another idea would be to make a baby book/photo album with binding and everything using the patterns as decorative pages. That's all I've got. Any other ideas? I have about twenty patterns.