My Spring Line...

Maybe someday I can launch a line of baby clothes, but for now, I will just clothe my precious little one. My goal has been to make Little Man an entire outfit consisting of knitted shorties, an appliqued shirt, cloth shoes and a matching bib. Well, here is my first outfit. Ta-da!

I found the cute chocolate brown fabric with green, orange and blue polka dots at JoAnn's. I decided this would be my color scheme.
 
I found green and orange wool yarn for cheap also at JoAnn's. It is a little scratchy, so I decided to just use it for my accent stripes. I splurged and bought Malabrigo Merino in Chocolate Brown for the main body. It is so nice and soft!


I used the polka dot fabric to make an applique in the shape of an elephant on a white t-shirt. I then used the same fabric to make cloth baby shoes following this pattern. I used 2 layers of brown felt for the soles.

And lastly, the bib. It is made with the polka dot fabric on the front and chocolate brown minky on the back. It has a matching brown snap closure.

Here are a couple modeling shots of Little Man...

T-Shirt Pants

I have been making a lot of stuff for Little Man lately, and I didn't want Buddy to feel left out, so I decided to make him some t-shirt pants to wear around the house. I found an old gray t-shirt of mine to use for the fabric. I traced a pair of his pants to use as a pattern. I kind of messed up on the waist band. I originally was going to use elastic, but the thread was too loose when I sewed the jersey so it didn't look good on outside of the pants. So instead I did a hidden seam waist band. I had to curve in the top of the pants to make the waist fit, so it kind of looks like there are pockets. The gray was a little plain, so I appliqued a star on one leg.

And he absolutely loves them!

If you want to make your own pants, here is a great tutorial!

Super Soakers!

Now that I felt more comfortable sewing fleece soakers, I tried to get a little more creative. I purchased blue, red and green solid colored fleece and decided to do a little bit of mix and match. I also tried my first attempt at applique following these great instructions. I am really pleased with how they turned out.

My husband said they look like Superman undies, so he nicknamed them Super Soakers. I think it's the perfect name!