Category: Kid’s Sewing
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Vintage Simplicity 8171: Sweet As Cherry Pie
I was thinking of giving this post the title “What the Vintage Fairy Puked Up”. It doesn’t sound nearly as appetizing as cherry pie, but considering how much of this dress fits the mainstream ideas of what a vintage dress should look like, it would be a pretty good description. It only lacks a…
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Emmaline Dress: Orange Picnic Version
A few months ago, I went a little gingham-crazy and added several (ok, maybe 6) gingham pieces to my fabric stash, including this orange colorway. It’s 100% cotton and fairly thick and stiff, but not so much that it feels like home decor fabric. Guinevere refers to gingham as “picnic fabric” (too many cartoons?)…
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Tiny Boy Clothes
I had the recent opportunity to try out two of the other Peek-a-Boo Patterns I recently acquired. I’m still really loving this pattern line. This time I used the Classic Chinos pattern and the Classic Polo pattern (both in size 6 months) to make up an outfit for our other friends who are expecting a baby this…
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Cake Patterns Tiramisu: 2nd Edition
I’m still working on my mystery project (which has me saying weirdly obvious things out loud, such as “wow, 9 yards is the same as 27 feet”, just because it took something like 5 hours to cut out the pieces from the 9 yards of fashion fabric), but with two muslins needed for someone who doesn’t live…
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Hello Peek-A-Boo Patterns; Welcome to My Stash
I’m making some progress on my mystery project (I love that you are trying to guess what it is, but no one has guessed correctly yet). 2 muslins down and I think I’m ready to cut into the real fabric. In the meantime, we have friends having their first baby (a girl) soon. There was…
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Simplicity 8488: Triple the Nightgowns (and a Minion Hat on the Side)
I’m going to start this off with a relatively quick knitting project I recently finished. The “Minion Hat” for Ace. His most favorite of favorite movies is Despicable Me, so when he found out that there were instructions out there for a hat, he commenced asking me about making him one…and repeated his questioning liberally…
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Squeak! A Squirrel Circle Skirt
Over the weekend, our family went to an anniversary party for Pete’s parents. The theme was “Tiempo de Rock n Roll” and the dress code was “estile de las 50’s y 60’s.” The boys were all for just wearing their usual jeans with a belt and tucking in a plaid shirt, very Leave it to…
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Burda Style 4/2013 project 142B: The Security Guard Hat
In the middle of sewing up a few things I’d recently cut out, a new project hit the queue this week. Guinevere’s class had been working on a special project for the past few months, an “art gallery” created by the students, and it culminated in a day they invited parents in to see. Each…
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Costume Sewing: It’s About the Looks, Not the Longevity
With the new blog setup, I thought I’d cheat a little and write a quick bit about the sloppiest “sewing” project I’ve done lately, just to get a feel for how the new platform is set up. This barely qualifies as sewing, so you have that disclaimer up front. Every year the kids’ school participates,…