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baby Arthur

29/01/2020 5:46 pm \ 23 Comments \ Carolyn

Our new baby grandson is here!!! We’re so excited and thrilled with him, he’s such a beautiful baby boy, speaking in a totally non-biased way, of course!! note: so clearly above photo is NOT of new baby grandson… sorry! But thanks to R2D2 for modelling the new beanie!!

I just had to make a few new things to welcome our family’s new bubby…

Items one and two are my favourites, obviously! I knitted a little yoda beanie, based upon this terrific free pattern by Shinah Chang on her FuzzyCloudDesigns blog. I used the pattern for the ears, but adapted my own for the beanie itself, my yarn was completely different and with a completely different gauge from the recommended. I think from memory I cast on 60 stitches? and for the crown I did the cast off in a 6 segment fashion. In other words, 1 per 10 stitches in the first cast-off row.

The yarn is from the big bag I picked up off a neighbour’s verge recently. I cannot believe someone was throwing away so much great yarn!

I made the matching onesie using my current favourite onesie pattern, Burda 9434. I made it using a scrap of cream coloured cotton jersey, and white plastic snaps, that I bought along with their matching tool from Spotlight. I don’t know why I haven’t used these before! because they really are far superior to the metal versions… I’m only sad that the white plastic did not take up the dye, like AT ALL. Oh yes, I obviously dyed the cream onesie to make it motley brown, like Yoda’s robes. I used dark brown thread so it would match the final colour.

I think it turned out super cute!

The other onesie is pretty plain, and in retrospect rather boring, it’s saving grace is that it’s for size 3 months, and I’m pretty sure Tim and Kelly have basically hardly anything in this size yet. So it will come in handy 🙂

omigosh, he’s really so beautiful!! thanks Tim for giving me permission to post this!! I’ll never ever tire of watching it… 🙂

In complete random and unrelated-to-sewing, life stuff; Dolly Parton- yes, THE Dolly Parton! – set the following challenge meme and I had great fun fulfilling it on behalf of Mischka. Behold, the cuteness!!

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funsies with onesies

30/07/2019 2:05 pm \ 9 Comments \ Carolyn

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…

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a new baby in the family!!! plus something for Mummy too :)

12/07/2019 7:07 pm \ 24 Comments \ Carolyn

So, I have some extremely exciting news… !! I am going to be a granny!!!!

Last week, Tim and Kelly announced they had a “souvenir” from their honeymoon to give to all of us and gave each of us a package… I unwrapped mine and what should I find, but a length of this adorable fabric and a pattern for a weeny little onesie and beanie…! everyone else had suitably themed pressies too; Sam had a T-shirt with “world’s best uncle”, Craig had a book “Grandad jokes”, and Cassie had a “World’s best auntie” Tshirt… oooh, such an incredibly lovely surprise! We were all stunned and then excited; and of course completely over the moon! We all cannot WAIT to welcome the newest and littlest member of the family next year…!! the first one in our next generation!! In the meantime of course I’ve made up the baby fabric immediately! Such fun to be making baby clothes again! #itsbeenawhile

So this is the pattern they chose; Burda 9434, and the cotton jersey is from Spotlight. I’m like, haha, first time parents; they bought a full 1.5m of fabric! Enough for two babies, lol! Wait, what?!! but no no, before we all get too excited Kelly has had a scan and there is just a singleton in there 🙂

I immediately traced off the one month size and ran up a onesie. And a beanie. Eeeee so cute! and it was such an absolute joy to be making these!! By the way; I had to trace the pattern in full, and will need to do so again and again, and probably even again! because obviously all sizes must stay intact since we’ll be needing those down the track too, that’s life… babies GROW 🙂 The pieces are all so tiny though it’s not exactly an unduly cumbersome chore.

I forgot to mention, the beanie is made from navy blue merino from the Fabric Store; I bought in in Melbourne during one of our girly jaunts over there and previously made this T-shirt/sweater using it too.

Kelly also mentioned that she needed to buy maternity clothes, and daa da da daaaa! (bugle call to arms) mum-in-law to the rescue and all that. Well, I do love sewing and have SO MUCH time on my hands now I no longer have a wedding dress to make, haha. I thought this a perfectly good excuse to buy the Closet Case Ebony tee pattern. This is one of the few Closet Case patterns I hadn’t got my hands on already … I had eyed it up a number of times but not pulled the trigger. Anyway, I finally did! And immediately printed out two copies; one for Kelly and one for me.

I know this isn’t a maternity pattern but I also knew it could easily work as one! I sized up from Kelly’s normal size, just in case; and you know what? it fits her perfectly! Pregnancy boobs, you know.

now this is a nice touch! personal. I like. I wonder if I can do this for our patterns?!

This is me here, modelling it for ye olde blog, before I hand it over to Kelly. Maybe I’ll get a shot of her wearing it, one of these days, maybe not. I’m not feeling very strict about blog photos for this one, because it’s essentially just a wearable muslin to check for size. It’s all leftovers; the body was from the leftovers from this top (Fabulous Fabrics) and the sleeves leftover from this, old favourite dress (Spotlight). To be honest, even though they’re both stretch fabrics, I don’t think they had enough stretch actually, but it still worked out, um; reasonable? I think?! And it’s just a muslin, but I still had to obsessively pin each and every stripe, grrr. This is a pretty silly thing to do, but it does result in great stripe-matching so *shrug* it’s worth it? I guess?

One thing I can guarantee; I am going to make lots more of both these patterns, and SOON!!!

Details:

Baby clothes; Burda 9434, cotton jersey and merino for the beanie
Tunic; the Ebony tee by Closet Case patterns, striped stuff, probably not enough stretch
Skirt; Vogue 1247, striped drill, details here
Tights; my own custom fit pattern, details on how to make your own here
Booties; Officine Creative, birthday present from Craig last year 🙂