Flickr Picture Featured!

A picture from one of my posts made it onto one of my favorite blogs, Make It and Love It! So excited about that. It's a picture of the little boy's vest I made awhile back. (Scroll down through the post to see it.)

So excited about that!

Fabric Flower Necklaces

I guess these are more like "Mixed Media" necklaces...I am already tired of my maternity wardrobe--still have three months til the baby arrives--s0 I decided to make some accessories!

I just made some multi-strand necklaces (see my instructions on crimping here) and added small fabric flowers with beads in the middle.

See this post for how to make fabric flowers. I made these pretty small and left the edges raw since I used knit fabric (scraps from t-shirts, of course!) Then I sewed the flower onto the necklace in an asymmetrical fashion...I wanted it to be off to the side, not in the middle.

Lots of Ideas for T-Shirts

Here is a post I found with a ton of ideas for upcycling t-shirts. Some of them are a little out there, but if you have an abundance of free t-shirts like I do, you probably want to use some of them for free projects!

Clifford Blanket

My aunt gave me some Clifford fabric and I made a little baby/toddler blanket.

It has a green fleece backing.

I think it will be a baby gift, but when I laid it out to fold it all up, my little guy decided he would lie down on it. He wasn't all that interested in it after this, so I don't think it'll cause too many problems for me to give it as a gift!

Newborn Pants

I used the pattern from Made By Rae to make these pants. I did add a ruffle to the bottom of the girly version I made. I did not hem any of them...I used old t-shirts and was going to hem the boy version, but I was afraid they'd be too short!

(We have babies with long legs around here!) Since they're t-shirts, they won't fray.

For the boy version, I did two small fabric stamps on other t-shirt scraps and sewed them onto the pants like patches.

Here is the back:

To start the pants, I cut two pieces of the pattern just like it says. I also cut a few 1" strips of fabric for the ruffles.

I sewed the intended ruffle strips together at the ends, pressed them flat, and then gathered them (using the lowest tension on the machine and the longest running stitch length.)

Then, I attached the gathered strip (sewing right sides together) to the bottom of the pant leg. (Note, it is the shorter inseam of the two. I did it incorrectly the first time and had to remove it!)

After attaching the ruffle, I pressed it on the right side of the pants to make it flat. Then I just followed the rest of the tutorial and sewed the front and back seams.

I finished up by sewing around both legs. I clipped the seams to remove excess fabric.

I followed the pattern to fold the waist over twice and then added 13.5" of elastic. I pressed them to crisp up the seams. The flower was made using the same tutorial I posted here.

My pictures are lit terribly because I took them all at night! Please excuse the lighting problem!