The first project I tried of hers was the Sadie Shirt. The tutorial looked so cute and I'm always wanting a cute, basic shirt for Evelyn to wear that's not super plain either. I also love making things for Evelyn and seeing her wear them. She's the cutest little model anybody could ask for! :) Anyway, this is my first attempt, which turned out pretty good except the sleeves are a smidge too skinny and won't last long. She's getting so big, I just can't believe it! I love the length though (she's so tall it's hard to find shirts sometimes that are long enough!). That's one thing I love about making things myself for her, I can make them whatever length I want! All these tutorials though have you pretty much make the pattern yourself, using clothes that fit your kid already. I'm doing pretty at it but most of the time I end up making them too big, but better too big than too small right?
This is my second attempt with the Sadie Shirt, but this time I wanted it more dress like and made it longer, although not long enough but it looks cute with leggings so all is well!
I have some fabric I want to use for another one but that might be awhile. I'm taking a short sewing break and doing some scrapbooking...finally had the urge to do a page the other night so I'm going with it! :)
But here's more projects! This one I really kinda just threw together...it's pretty messy and definitely far from perfect but since it's just a play dress I didn't really care! I've wanted to make one since we were in Cali and she wore her cousin's dress up dress so I found some cheap cheap satin-ish fabric at Wal Mart and some sheer remnants there as well and threw this together! I have a blog tutorial somewhere for a princess dress but couldn't find it so I had this dress pattern from Simplicity (I can't remember the number) and used it to cut out the pieces. It was fairly confusing though so I kinda followed the basics and put it together the way I thought it should go. Patterns are had to read!!! So it turned out a little off center in the front and pretty big on her (she wouldn't let me put it on her the day I made it so no pics of her in it yet...) but I figured bigger is better for this anyway...she can play in it longer and she might not be into playing dress up yet with no one else around doing it. So anyway.....here's a couple pics of it.
This next project was a lot of fun for me, mainly cuz I was actually making it for someone else instead of just doing it! :) I got some super cute fabric in Utah to make my friend Emma a diaper bag. She's have a baby boy at the end of the summer so I wanted to make her something! I took the Amy Butler pattern I just got (the one I made the yellow purse with) but this time I made some modifications...I didn't like how short the width was on the purse, it didn't stand by itself and there wasn't as much room inside as I woulda liked. So I made it a bit wider and now I think it might be a bit too wide! But oh well...it's a diaper bag so they are supposed to be big right? I just feel kinda bad cuz Emma is kind of a short lil' thing (short and fiesty, but I sure do love her! :) so this might be really big for her....whoops. She'll love it anyway so I'm not gonna worry too much. So here's the bag!
Along with the bag I made a matching changing pad...although this was my first time to do that and first time to use the iron on vinyl so that turned out a smidge sketchy....definitely a bit off on the whole straightness of it but it's just a changing pad and it's super cute! :) I used a bunch of scraps from the purse for it and kinda just threw it together hoping I had enough but it worked!
The next thing I did for her was make her this ADORABLE bapron, courtesy once again from "Craftiness is not optional". I absolutely love this pattern, they are cute, SUPER easy to make, and work great! They cover so much more than a bib too! I loved it so much that the next day I whipped up two for Monie although I forgot to take a pic of them....they were super cute though!
Sorry it's sideways, forgot to rotate it.
This last project also came from "Craftiness is not optional" and also came out a little bigger than I wanted so it doesn't quite fit Evelyn yet. I absolutely LOVE this fabric though...look familiar? Well I used it on one of my Amy Butler Birdie Sling bags a while back and a week or so ago I found it at a quilt shop here in MO for half the price I got it in MS so I bought what she had left and used it for this! I think it looks ADORABLE and can't wait for it to fit better. Anyway, it's called the Anna Dress and I also plan on making another one of these :) I seriously LOVE her tutorials!!!!
Oh, and just a quick fyi...I did a new photo shoot that I posted up on my photgraphy blog, http://foreversafterphotography.blogspot.com/, so head over and check it out! I'm not gonna do a repeat and post it here and won't with most of my photo shoots anymore, that's the point of the photography blog! :) Anyway, enjoy!
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