Purple Jumper

Pattern: Simplicity 2668

Fabric: Purple Corduroy from Joann

While I'm not crazy about this pattern, I still love the combination. The pieces can be worn a few different ways. Dressed up, like it is here, or the shirt with leggings and a cardigan.

You'll recognize the under shirt from a few days ago. It is still my favorite part of the outfit.

Baby Pants

I know I am late to the downloadable pattern party, but holy cow, what a great idea. I get so annoyed with big brand printed patterns. Once you cut it to a small size, its nearly impossible to reconstruct the bigger sizes. Not that I would ever want to make one again. They are always overly simplistic and complicated all at the same time, and require tons of modifications to make them work. A PDF patterns can be printed again and again.

Pattern: Big Butt Baby Pants

Fabric : Joann Fabric - Denim

Riley Blake, Bloom and Grow, Cream - Cuffs

This pattern was so straight forward it almost made itself. They are a little too simple in this fabric, so I added the cuffs. I top stitched all the seams, but you can hardly see it in the coordinating color. Next time I would make the waist a bit more substantial, maybe use 1" elastic, and do the top stitching in a contrasting color. Otherwise, great pattern. Its so hard to buy pants to fit a cloth diapered baby.

I have gotten so much sewing done in the past two days it makes me wonder why I'm so committed to knitting. A little knit hat takes two days, plus blocking time. This pair of pants took two hours.

Note: The moccasins in the first picture are from Kaboogie. Love, love, love them!

Be Mine

Crayon stained glass is my favorite valentine kid craft. I like to think J made this one, but it was hard for me not to take over, its so much fun.

I let him make another one to make up for it.

Color Problem

I have a color problem. Every time I try for subtlety, I end up with more color. Why fight it? I've got some more stripped hat and mitten sets in mind for this box of lovely.

Striped Hat & Mittens

My contribution to the Ginia18 & SweetKM trade. A worsted wool, striped hat and mittens.
This will definitely be in the shop, probably as the set.

Trade

How cute is this? This awesome crayon folio is from my friend Virginia Lindsay, also known as Ginia18 on Etsy. We set up a little trade and this is what I chose from her extensive selection of hand sewn accessories and patterns. I love it so much I'm going to be hesitant to let L use it. Luckily, she isn't quite old enough for crayons yet, so I have a little while to soak up its awesomeness before she messes it up. I'm such a sucker for this sort of thing, so neat, so organized. How could you not do something great with such well presented crayons? Virginia gave us one for J a few years ago, and he loves it. Great for long car trips or church.

I'll show my half of the trade tomorrow, in the meantime check out Virginia's blog.

Purple Dress

Pattern: Simplicity 2668

Fabric: Heydayshop

This shirt started as something to go under a purple corduroy jumper that isn't finished yet. Both are from the Simplicity pattern. I made the shirt from the coat pattern, but with no collar, longer sleeves and the buttons up the back.

I love, love, love this fabric. I love the green piping. I love the vintage button. I don't love that I had to do the top two button holes by hand. BY HAND! In general I love my sewing machine, and though I don't do many button holes, I've never had a problem. The #*@% buttonholer would not go over the piping. It kept getting stuck on the lower button hole and it didn't like the irregular thickness on the upper button hole. I wasted three nap times trying to work it out. So frustrating.