I’ve made another little onesie! Looks a bit goth, you say?? well, there’s a story… 🙂
The sewcialists blog had this fun, little mini-challenge last weekend; you spun the wheel to get a colour and then you had the weekend to whip up something with your colour. I spun and got:
I’m sorry to say I felt very uninspired at first, and just left it for a few days. And yes, it did say you could spin again and again, in fact as many times as you like to get the colour you want! but that’s just not me… I’m a stick-with-what-you’ve-got, kind of a person, and spinning a second time would have felt like cheating. Stubborn? oh yes, but you know, gotta own what you are!
Then it occurred to me… make something else for the new baby!! Now if that’s not a fun motivation I don’t know what is!! So, you know I’ve got a huge bag of the family’s old clothes that are still very good quality fabric, and I fished out this old T-shirt of Tim’s…
I had this idea he might like for his new baby to have a little something of Dad’s when he gets here… pretty cute idea, huh? Well, I thought so. 🙂 No sooner did I post a picture on instagram, than Tim sent me this one picture of himself wearing the T-shirt. The grim-looking persona here is all an act, honestly; he’d dressed as a rocker for a dress-up party, haha.
Pattern; I again used the pattern Tim and Kelly had given me; Burda 9434, the 1 month size, except this time I cut the front as one piece, so as to maintain the cool tree/crows motif on the front of the T-shirt; and put 3 snaps in the crotch for closure.
I also made the little ivory beanie; using part of an old dress of Cassie’s. No picture of that one in its original condition sadly; and it’s already been cut up in the past for a heap for other things; in any case, this is totally a very recycled and eco-friendly outfit for the new bub!
Just some boring construction thoughts: I did have to cut and piece a little bit near one shoulder, because for some reason the motif had been placed super high on the T-shirt; so close to the neckline edging that you couldn’t possibly cut out the narrow baby onesie piece AND keep the motif intact otherwise. You’d think the manufacturer’s would consider that people might want to cut out a baby onesie when they print their T-shirts, wouldn’t you; sheesh. So inconsiderate! Really, in retrospect I should have pieced BOTH shoulder pieces, which would have centred the motif better, but oh well; you live and learn. I think it’s super cute, and honestly, I can hardly wait for Tim to be holding his new baby wearing this onesie! seems like full circle, you know? That is; the baby wearing the onesie, not Tim, obviously!
addendum; aaaaaaaaand, I’ve just finished another shortie onesie… and matching beanie. Reason number one; Kelly and Tim really did buy SO MUCH of this fabric! and reason number two; because I’ve made a salient discovery; you can never actually get tired of making baby onesies.
So, the beanie matches the very first “long-ie” onesie I made, obviously, because it’s from the same fabric; and this onesie also matches the above, ivory beanie; because I used the ivory fabric for the binding… I stitched on miniature sew-on press-studs for the closure on this one because I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with the hammer-in ones, and am currently residing in the hate phase…
Very cute. As for snaps these are amazing. I used mine when I went through my cloth nappy making phase;
https://www.snapsaustralia.com.au/product_p/plrkit.htm
So cute! I even like that the motif isn’t centered.
The other shortie is really lovely, you made the most beautiful binding whose simplicity is maintained by choosing the sew on snaps.
I love the idea of a Goth baby!
I was going to say get yourself a snap setter tool but Angela already did further up. 🙂 Yes, making onesies are addictive. It’s even better when the bub visits in them!
I’m very excited for lots of baby makes!
That is a great idea, I love recycled projects and the fact it is being passed through the generations is fabulous. Maybe an update with the photos side by side when the baby arrives.
Love your creativity. And a little side note. I received oodles of presents when I was pregnant – all 1-3 month size. Gained 18 pounds and was told the baby would be 7 pounds. Surprise, surprise. I had the dubious honor of delivering the largest baby in the nursery. She went straight into 3-6 month clothes. You might want to make those onesies in a variety of sizes.
thanks so much for the advice! I’ve had three children myself so am not going into this completely uninformed
Very cute! And you’re braver than I am, I barely sewed anything for my kids as babies because they outgrow stuff so quickly. Plus the Big 4 patterns that I did make for the boys had such wonky sizing! We’ll see what happens now that I’m having a girl, though, because I feel like it’ll actually be easier to use my colorful scraps for her.