Le Bebe needed some new outfits… so I made one!
The little clownsuit/jumpsuit is totally adorable in my opinion!! it’s partly based upon two other different rtw ones Cassie already had for him for gauging the size and width, and I drew up my own pattern from those measurements…
For the little T-shirt, I used the cardigan pattern in Butterick 5583, just cutting it as a T-shirt instead of as a cardigan, and also accordingly making the neckline wider by about 1.5cm each side so his head can fit through the hole… the funny thing is that this size is the newborn size! It’s very big and loose on him and actually he is NOT a small baby. It just goes to show once again how strange the sizes are in baby patterns.
the fabrics are pretty cute, I think! both are from my stash, originally bought from Spotlight. I’m still virtuously using stash fabrics but have recently bought some new fabrics from Spoonflower, so that’s a bit of a setback in my use-stash only plans for the year, whoops! but actually I’m not going to get too down on myself because each of the fabrics I got is really cool and, you know what? Life is too short to be hard on yourself if you don’t have to be!
In random wardrobe news, Cassie came around last weekend and helped me to do a big closet cleanup, and we tossed out a huge garbage bag of my clothes… this felt SO GOOD! because I’d got into a bit of a rut with my winter wardrobe, basically forcing myself to wear shabby and old things that really were not doing me any favours. Now I have a smaller collection of winter clothes that I really like and that also actually look good on me! I’m not planning to make much more in the way of winter clothes to replace them though, but am revving up for spring and/or summer now.
So, wanna see a video of the making of this cute bumblebee baby outfit? Because I made one! It’s fun making videos and I enjoy it, but it does take quite a long time; so I’m not going to make one every time. Maybe just for special or interesting things… we’ll see. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it!
It can be seen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbO0gTSl-WQ
Hello! I’ve made a cool new outfit! At least, I think it’s pretty cool, anyway. I think it’s got a strong 80’s vibe; it reminds me vaguely of what the dancers were wearing in Spandeau Ballet’s “To Cut a Long Story Short” video. Oh boy, that takes me back, it was such a favourite of mine.
I’m so happy with this new dress! The fabric is actually very special… Cassie gave it to me last year, the print is one of a suite of designs she created for her wedding stationery and other wedding paraphernalia… she has the designs up in her Spoonflower shop, and she gave some fabric of a different design to Mum (her Granny, obviously)
So, as usual I really didn’t have enough fabric to cut out even a small top… because the pokey out bits on the sides of all the pieces that enable your armpits to be covered actually use up such a lot of the width of your fabric, and if you cut out the pieces as is you end up with a lot of long skinny pieces of wastage. Eventually however, I discovered that you could fold back the said pokey out bits of your pattern pieces, and cut a gusset out of that bit at the top between the armscyes on each piece. Here’s a very rough drawing to illustrate:
I made this dress months ago! like in April! … however because I made it to test the pattern I had to keep it a secret until its release, and it wasn’t released until the end of May. And at that time, not only was it getting too cold for me to really wear it regularly, but I was getting overwhelmed with preparation and planning for the release of our own Yallingup pattern, and so although I did post about it on Instagram I didn’t get around to blogging my own version here.
I really enjoyed making mine, and I remember the instructions for gathering the skirt panels were really awesome and taught me something new about gathering things neatly and well.
