Sewing Kid Clothes

I made these clothing items several years ago and posted them on a personal blog.  I was interested to see if any of you would like a tutorial on them.  Leave a comment and let me know if your interested. 

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I made these pants with cheap fabric because I didn't want to waste the good fabric on a pattern I was making and not so sure how it would turn out.

 

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I found this darling fabric on sale and decided to make some clothes for my daughter. I had to create a couple of the patterns. I still need to do some tweaking...but overall they turned out okay. I am excited for her to wear them!

Kids Hoodie Towel Tutioral

My Kids LOVE their Hoodie Towels!!

They got theirs as baby shower gifts and have used them for years. 

My niece is having a girl and I thought I would make her baby one.

What you need: 

1 regular towel

1 hand towel

Material for ruffle edge (My kids have ribbon sewn 1/4 of they way up on the hand towel) . I decided I wanted a ruffle edge. I bought my towels at Target and had the purple material on hand. 

I actually had it all sewn before I figured out that I needed to cut the hand towel down.  Oops.  I should have taken pictures, but I was a bit frustrated and the baby shower was in 1 hour.  To say the least I was in a bit of a hurry.

Cut the hand towel to equal 12 inches on one side and 8 on the other.  I then zig zaged the edge or you could serge it.  If you want to hem maybe leave a little more material. 

Sew the 12 in side together. 

Do you see the hoodie taking shape?

I took my purple material.  I made it about 1 1/2 inch wide .  It was about 16 inches long.  If you don't want it very ruffly then shorten your length. 

I don't have pictures of this but take 3 inch wide material. Fold it over to make 1 1/2 inch wide material and sew the open side shut.  Turn it inside out and iron.  I sewed each edge again to get a finished looking piece of material.  Turn both ends in and sew those closed.   Set your sewing machine to  lesson the tension.  On my machine it is 6+ my machine is old so I am not sure what other machines settings are.  Sew a straight stitch down the middle and your machine will automatically gather and ruffle the material.  

Attach ruffle to the front of your hand towel (hoodie) and sew the two pieces together.  I placed the ruffle at the edge of the towel and sewed along the middle of the purple ruffle.  I wanted to make it look like one sewing line.  

 Attach hoodie (hand towel) to towel.  I found the middle of the towel and the middle of the hand towel and pinned them together.  Then I continued pinning along the right and left until the hand towel ran out. 

Sew together. 

 Your hoodie towel is done.

Enjoy!

Baby Girl Skirt

I have been out of town for the past couple of days and wanted to get this post up. I have sick kids, laundry and just catching up to do so I am posting the pictures and then linking you to a great blog for the tutorial. Click here for the steps!

What makes my skirt different? I added pom pom trim and cut out a little bird from different material and sewed it directly to the material.

Little Girl Skirt

I wanted to make my daughters a new skirt. I think the hardest part for me is picking out the material. I went back and forth. I am still not 100% certain I like the two colors together and my daughter who is 5 going on 18 told me she didn't like the brown. Oh well!! Here is the size 4/5 it might last until she is six. Fabric: Any cotton Fabric Amount: I bought 1 yard of each with the intention of making more. Top portion: Length 28 inches ~ Width 5 inches Middle: Length 44 inches ~ Width 8 inches Bottom: Length 44 inches ~ Width 6 inches Elastic: One inch thick and 20 inches in length

Cut out the material. Then if you have a serger (which I don't) serg along the border of all the material. If you are like me, sew a zig zag stitch around. Now the next part gets a little tricky and I am not sure the best way to explain this.

Take your top layer and create a waste band. Use your elastic to determine how wide it should be. Mark with two pins where the opening should be to thread your elastic in.

Thread elastic and pull out the other end. Match the two elastics together on top of each other and sew elastic together.

Sew your bottom and middle pieces together.

Take the bottom and middle piece that is now one and you will gather the top of the middle piece. Put your sewing machine on straight stitch. There should be a place on your sewing machine to loosen or tighten your thread. You want to loosen it all the way (at least that is what I do on my machine, but my machine is 20 years old). As you sew the material will gather on its own.

Now pin your middle piece together to your top piece, pattern side facing each other. You may need to loosen the gather on the middle piece to match the top piece of material. Once you have them matched together and pinned sew them together.

To finish up, measure a 1/2 inch (more or less), hem, iron, pin then sew. I found cute small pom pom from Pick Your Plum (a website that sells random craft items each day). You could use ric rac or any other item you think is cute. Or just leave it as is!

I am still trying to find the best way to describe my sewing projects. If something doesn't make sense, please feel free to leave a comment. I will try and describe it better if needed. Keep checking back, as I will be posting a matching skirt for a 6-9 month old soon. :)

Baby Blessing Dress

When I went shopping for a blessing dress for my youngest, I was shocked by the price tag. There were some darling dresses, but I guess I couldn't pay $50 + dollars for a dress my daughter would wear once. I went searching online for ideas and came across this darling little ruffle dress with a free pattern. It is a simple sewing project. I wanted to share what I made and the original blog that the pattern came from. Click Here to get the pattern/instructions.

I bought one yard of fabric at Hobby Lobby using a 40% off discount coupon. In addition I also got the elastic, some white shoes, a white flower and headband. I think it all cost around $10. What a great deal. I can stomach that cost! When sewing with the ruffle fabric it can be tricky. Make sure that the ruffles are always lined up. I didn't use elastic in the arms of the blessing dress. It didn't need it. I also cut the length of the material longer then the peasant dress pattern. I thought it was appropriate for a blessing dress.

I will show a tutorial soon on how to make the head band it is very simple!