Boy's Blue and White Seersucker Shirt for Easter

 

For Easter this year I am making my kid's outfit and my own dress. Yes, that's a very lofty goal but I am getting started and am so excited about it!

 

For my four year old son I made him this blue and white seersucker shirt. The fabric is from Hancock Fabrics CLICK HERE. The pattern is by Lily Bird Studio CLICK HERE and came out great! The shirt took about 3-4 hours total, but it was my second time making it. The pattern had good pictures to follow, but the yoke pattern piece wasn't working for me. It was way too wide and the pieces weren't matching up, so I had to reshape that and draw my own armholes. I was quite scared of that collar, but OH MY I LOVE IT!!! I tried this shirt last year and never finished it. The collar stand wasn't coming out perfectly so I tossed it into the pile of unfinished projects and haven't seen it since :) Ha! But, this time, I worked on that collar stand until it was perfect!! My husband couldn't believe I made this, so that is a winning compliment! :)

 

I am going to make him some Nantucket red pants to wear with a belt and my daughter is going to have a coordinating seersucker dress. I haven't decided what style she is going to have yet. I love simple, classic, dainty and sweet, so I will keep you posted.

 

I am also going to TRY to make my own dress from a  pattern this year! It has darts and a zipper - so if I can tackle that, I will feel quite accomplished! :) If I can't, no big deal - but I like a challenge. It pushes my skills to their limits and will definitely teach me something new.

Here is THE PATTERN for my Easter Dress if you'd like to see it. I will keep you posted!!

 

 

Here are some close ups.

 

 

What are you sewing for Easter?

St. Patrick's Day Applique Shirts and Skirt

Make a St. Patrick's Day Applique!

 

What do you do when you have 30 minutes before you have to leave to pick up for carpool? Sew two new outfits for tomorrow's St. Patrick's Day parade of course!!

For my little girl I sewed a basic elastic waist skirt (TUTORIAL HERE) in this cute fabric I got at Hobby Lobby.

When I sewed the elastic casing at the top, I ironed down the top edge 1/2 inch to the wrong side, then another 1 inch to the wrong side and pinned in place. I sewed around the pinned edge using a 7/8 inch seam allowance around the entire skirt. Then I sewed another line of stitches 1/2 inch above that line and stopped sewing 2 inches before my starting point. I cut my elastic to 20 inches (she is a 3T), inserted it, overlapped the elastic and sewed the pieces together, then sewed the opening closed. That's how you make a paper bag waisted skirt! Easy!!

For my son, I wanted to make something kind of quirky and cute, so I went with an appliqued tie. I found the picture here and copied and pasted it into a Microsoft Word document. Then I dragged the edges of it to be as large as it could fit on my printer paper and printed it. To see how I applique, you can read my TUTORIAL HERE.

Enjoy!! Go make your kids something fun!! I also saw a picture today that someone added SUSPENDER APPLIQUES to a shirt! Too cute!! You can see an example HERE.  Have fun with it!!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

I'm also having a $4 SALE on The Love Me Knots Dress PDF sewing pattern TODAY ONLY. Pattern shop HERE.

 Happy Weekend everyone!!
Pattern shop HERE. 

Fun and Flirty Bias Tape Skirt

Sneak Peek of the next SEWING TUTORIAL!

 

 Coming TOMORROW!

 

Bias Tape Bordered Skirt

 

FUN AND FLIRTY!!

This BEAUTIFUL Spring skirt is the perfect accessory for every young girl's summer wardrobe. It's FUN! It's SASSY!! This is a must have!! Not only will your daughter, niece or whomever you decide to sew it for LOVE it but so will their parents!!!! It's EASY!!! Just throw it on for a fun afternoon outing!!!

If you are itching to get started sewing this is the perfect time to start!!! This Bias Tape Skirt sewing tutorial is coming TOMORROW!! Be on the lookout for our next blog post!!

Aren't these giraffes too cute? I got this at Stich Lab in Austin, TX on my most recent trip.

She won't stop twirling for these picures, so I know she LOVES it!!

Classic Boy's Romper sewing pattern coming soon

Introducing the Classic Boy's Romper sewing pattern!!!

  This adorable, not to mention easy, is the perfect outfit for little boys of ALL ages!!!!!  Not only is there room enough to be active, but it is also cute enough to just pick up and go, whether to a play date or to run some quick errands.  A MUST HAVE for the Summer!!!!

Check out sweet little William sporting around in his Classic Romper. How adorable would this be with a sailboat, dragon, pirate or fish applique or a classic style monogram? Oh the possibilities!!!

Coming soon....

He knows he wants to smile!

Sweet handsome boy!!

Working on this one at the moment and I hope to have it out to testers within the next week or two! Just in time for Spring and Summer sewing!


To see our Seamingly Smitten pattern collection - CLICK HERE.