Listed : Simple Ribbed Mittens

New in the shop this week: Simple Ribbed Mittens in sizes Up to 12 Months, 12-24 Months & 3T/4T. After many special requests for mittens to match the Simple Ribbed Bonnets, its seems these little guys deserve their own listing.

More Baby Pants

Pattern: Big Butt Baby Pants
Floral Fabric: The Heyday Shop, Sunday Best
Solid Fabric: Joanne Corduroy, Joann Denim with Stretch

I've had these fabrics in a stack for months, earmarked to make new fall pants for L. I loved her last pair, nice and roomy for cloth diapered babies. I made the teal and yellow first, one size bigger than she wears right now. She can wear them cuffed for now, and uncuffed later.

She wore her last pair for quite a while and I was a little sad when she outgrew the turned up look. I got a little fancier with the second pair, leaving a little strip of the floral showing, even when the pants are not cuffed.

Not a Pixie Bonnet

How many pixie bonnets can one baby wear? Answer, 5 0r 6, but its nice to have something a little different every now and again.

Pattern: My own.

Yarn: Knit Picks Wool of the Andes

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!

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.

Shawl Collar Baby Coat

I just can't get enough of this shawl collar baby coat. There are so many ways to change it up, without really changing a thing.
In a moment of clarity I realized I already had both yarns and these great vintage button.
L wears this jacket everywhere. I'm calling it a 12-24 month, but the boxy fit and 3/4 length sleeves allows for a lot of growth. I hope to have this pattern in the shop in the next few weeks, after some thorough testing.

Get the pattern. More Shawl Collar Baby Coat Styles.