The main problem with my attempt to document my handmade stuff, including some of the things I made for the children way back when they were little is that I neglected to take good pictures of things. Things, some of them perfectly lovely, of which I was very proud, and which I no longer have in my possession. I do have an excuse; my younger self was blissfully unaware that my older self would be wanting to do this blog one day…. I know, lame excuse. But it’s the only one I have, so I’m going there.
So one can blame my lack of future foretelling ability for the poor illustrative quality of these photos with relation to how well you can see the actual clothes; ie. not very well. Hopefully you can still get a vague idea how cute this particular ensemble was…
I made for Tim this outfit, for his second birthday; comprising checked pants with contrasting red pocket yokes and a red hoodie with flannelette teddy bear print sleeves and the same fabric lining the hood. Both pants and hoodie patterns were from those marvellous Topkids magazines. It was a sweet outfit, I was pretty thrilled with how it turned out (my first attempt at a hoodie if I remember correctly) and he wore it a lot. Even Cassie wore it when she got big enough to fit into it! (see below) It had two asymmetrically placed decorative patches on the front of the hoodie ( hey, this was the early 90’s, when random asymmetry was in and actually done on purpose sometimes…) around which I carefully stitched frames of matching royal blue rick-rack.
I wonder where it is now…
The hoodie…
a better view of the pants… (goodness knows what possessed me to put this horrible top on him, doesn’t go at all with the pants…. I must have just grabbed something clean that day with absolutely no thought as to whether or not my son looked sharp, tut tut)
Cassie wearing the outfit…
And yes, I made that sad excuse for a birthday cake above too… well, I do not claim to be either a great cook or cake decorator! It was a clock face, and the time was set to 2 o’clock, for a 2 year old of course!
If you’re interested, my little boy looks like this now, and my little girl with the cheeky grin looks like this…
