Oops, we got busy! Tuesday and I went over to a friend’s house so that we could photograph her little baby. Not quite as little as I like to shoot babies, but I was so gross and sick the last couple weeks there was no way I was going to cough all over a newborn. So instead we got to hang out with a still tiny, but more awake month old baby. Of course Tuesday didn’t mind at all!
And she got to hang out with her girlfriends all morning.
Oh you little girls.
We did get Brody to fall asleep (well by we I mean his mama’s milk of course!).
Let me tell you, it’s a lot harder to get a month old baby boy to stay curled up and covered than a few day old baby.
I might be a bad blogger this week. Bj took his vacation time and we’re at home all week. Yay for staycations and knocking a million things off the to do list! If only the baby in my belly would let me sleep in on this vacation….
Celebrating crafts, kids and the everyday through photographs.
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I’m still planning on doing something else with my Week in the Life photos. I love them (and thank you for all the sweet comments about them!) and am thinking maybe a Shutterfly book would be the easiest thing to get done. I did include the week in my Project Life album. Of course with 600+ photos to choose from I knew I had to make it easy on myself. So I just picked a handful that best represented the project.
And we went to the beach and I still didn’t use any inserts! Yay for easy! When I was thinking about the week in photos I was thinking about why I loved the project and why the photos were so special. They were so special to me because I don’t usually take photos of things like breakfast and my weight. And my mom, who I normally see once a week I hardly have any pictures of (for shame!). So those are the pictures I chose to include, and I just journaled about why I picked those photos.
For me Week in the Life is all about the photos, not so much the words. But Tuesday had some real gems quote wise so I used this little pocket bag thing Sarah got me to slip a journaling card in with them all typed out. And on that note:
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Tuesday has a little dress that she loves. It’s a simple soft jersey knit and I wanted to figure out how it was constructed to make her another. So when Bj got a super soft jersey shirt (that also happened to be super skinny fit and small) I knew it was just the thing to try (bottom hem already done after all!).
To figure out the size of the dress I just laid the one she likes on top of the shirt and sort of made up a pattern. I just made it wider on top so there would be a bit to gather. I didn’t worry about the button placket, she didn’t use it to get it on and off anyway.
I ended up with two pieces like this, utilizing the bottom hem.
I cut strips about 2 inches wide for the strips. That way I had enough fabric to fold under for a clean seam:
I mitered the edges and sewed them all together.
I couldn’t figure out how to do this with out backing it on a piece of muslin. I cut as much of it away as I could after I seamed. Is there a better way to do this? I’m not sure, but at least this way the thin material didn’t get sucked into my machine.
Here you can see how the dress fits together. I already sewed the sides together and hemmed the edges of the arm holes (just folded over and top stitched). I gathered it a bit and pinned the edges of the strap part so it was sandwiched the dress in between. Then I top stitched very close to the edge all the way around the square strap part.
I added this logo to the back. I just cut it out and put it on with a small zig-zag stitch. I should have put interfacing under it first, it was hard to get nice straight stitches, but it works.
The next day Tuesday wanted to wear the dress over her jammies top. I woke up to her in this outfit. Of course you can’t ask for more than that when you’re making kid’s stuff! I’m so glad she likes it. I am going to give it another try. I think making the dress pieces a bit wider so there is more to gather at top would look nicer. Also I could do shorter straps and she’d still be able to get into it without trouble (the material is so stretchy). She’s pretty much in a 3T size right now and I think I could make this type of dress from a t-shirt until she’s a 5T size, depending on the length of the t-shirt of course.
There are so many cute t-shirt to kids clothes tutorials and patterns out there. I bought this one from Lil Blue Boo, but I haven’t tried it yet. Have you tried to refashion a t-shirt into kids clothes? What did you make?
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