Pocket Bib

I wanted to try my hand at some of these toddler bibs. Owen drops a lot of food down his front and sides when he eats (mostly on purpose), and it makes a big mess when I pull him out of the high chair. This kind of bib seemed to be a good solution. I used laminated cotton, so it's wipeable, plus the pocket unsnaps for easy cleaning. Thanks to Joanna for the snap pressing. 

I have a bunch more in the works, so if you have a baby or soon will have a baby, you may be receiving one of these.

Runway shortie

I made this adorable pattern from It's Always Autumn for Brooke. The pattern she gives is 12-18 months, so I just enlarged it just a little and hoped that would fit.  It was really pretty simple to make, but I did get a little confused at the shorts section, because the pieces didn't match up. . I also did my own thing for the cuff, because those directions confused me, but they look great, so I'm not concerned.

I think it is ridiculously cute. It is a little too snug, so she won't wear it a ton, but baby can wear it next summer. I'm planning on making another a touch bigger for Brooke.  I'll probably just add an inch or so all around. Do you think that would work okay?

Pattern refashion

Before my mission, Mom and I decided that we were going to sew me a couple of things to take with me, including a jumper from this pattern.

It was going to be awesome and I was going to wear it all the time. Except as I was sewing it it turned out just a tad too small, and so it never got finished. I brought it back with me from Mom's after going through all the fabric and remaining craft supplies. I figured I could do something with it.

In trying to get the guest room neatened up and into an actual guest room instead of a mess room, I didn't have anywhere to put the unfinished pattern, so I refashioned it into a maxi skirt.

It has an exposed zipper on the back, mainly because I didn't want to mess around with it. It turned out pretty good, but I forgot to take a picture. Maybe I can get one on Sunday.

Jammies

I'm getting sick of buying pajamas for Russell. They are getting much more expensive than I want to pay, plus I have quite a bit of fabric that I can just sew some pants and find some cheap shirts to wear with the pants. Plus, summer is coming and he doesn't need anything warm and fuzzy.

It was convenient that I finished these during Meghan's nap because Russell dumped his cup of water all over him and the house. I was not about to go into the kids room to get him dry clothes so he had to wear these pants with no shirt until he could get a dry shirt.

I got the fabric last year to make pillowcases for the kids we had from Ben's family only to find out a couple weeks later that they no longer liked Thomas and had moved onto Jake and the Neverland Pirates. I just used the simple trace a pair of pants a little larger then sew the side seams of the waist, then sew the entire leg seams all the way and turn under the hem and a casing for the waist pattern to make them. Tada! New pants. I'll get three pairs of pants and a pair of shorts made with one leg in each fabric.

Some Dresses

Brooke doesn't have hardly any dresses in size 18 month and she has grown out ( in the belly I'm assuming) of all her 12 month clothes, including dresses. I made her some dresses out of almost all stuff I've had hanging around. I did buy some colored elastic online on the cheap and used that, but it was worth it.

The first was a very simple skirt, out of two squares of knit and an elastic waistband.  It looks really cute on Brooke when she wears her jean jacket with it.

 The following dress is my favorite.  I used a tutorial from Craftiness Is Not Optional. It was supposed to be for pre-Easter Sunday, but Brooke went through a phase where she woke up every time I turned the sewing machine on. I made it a touch big on purpose so she can wear it longer, plus I'm hoping she has a growth spurt sometime. The fabric was the fabric Mom used for the nieces' dresses for my wedding.

This t-shirt dress was a last minute addition.  I wasn't too impressed with it and pleats aren't my favorite thing to do ever, but it looked much cuter than I thought when I wrestled it on Brooke.  The pleats poof out just a little, but it's not too noticeable, plus if I figured out how to iron pleats it would help.

Brooke is low on summer clothes in general, so I have plans to make some normal clothes soon. Hopefully that happens soon and I will share those with you.

Easter Toy

I managed to scoot enough stuff away from my sewing machine to sew up a quick little Easter toy for Meghan's Easter basket. I should have made one for Russell, too, because he loves it about as much as Meghan does.

It was really easy to sew! It took maybe a total of a half hour from start to finish including printing the little pattern and cutting it out. I saw it on pinterest a few days before and figured it would be the perfect addition to her Meghan's Easter basket. She loves it. She wrestles with it on the floor and explores it's eyes and beak.

More kids' clothes

I had this knit baby fabric that I didn't know what to do with. I made Owen some pajamas with it. It has pink and red in it, but I'm pretty sure it is supposed to be gender neutral, so I went with it and added the navy blue to make it more boyish.

I didn't use a pattern, and I think it turned out pretty well. It was also my first time trying a lap neck, and I kind of enjoyed trying to figure out how to do it.

And I made this pair of shorts from the same pattern as the seersucker suit.

And I made this hat with the leftover seersucker suit fabric. We have a lot of seersucker around here right now. The hat is kind of weird. I used a pattern that was part of the little boy shirt pattern for Janet's wedding. The hat basically covers all of Owen's face.