Jet plane applique

Pattern here

I embroidered around it after sewing it on the shirt.

Great to cover a big stain!

make overalls fitter by a tab and button

Today I share with you a trick to make overalls fitter: a tab with buttonhole

I did it on some overalls of my baby boy because he is tall but skinny

This tab is only a fabric tube with buttonhole. 

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How to make baby/todler clothes last, Part 2

I did it again
Last time I added cuffs to pants or romper to make it longer.

Today I lengthened some clothes which still fit but short by adding ..something on it,
Like this, this, this, and this 

I mean a strip fabric (I prefer knit/jersey so I don´t have to hem) or lace that is the width of your shirt you´d like to extend.
You can mix and match many strips together to make your shirt funky.
I just keep it simple.

My baby boy can stand but still not walk

How to make scoop neck higher

Before

After

How-to

Boutique capri jeans

That was a long jeans pants. I cut off the legs to make it into a capri like this one

I wanted to use some doilies that my auntie crocheted for me, 

like so

but then I saw a boutique style jeans here. So my boutique capri jeans was born 

100% cute, huh :)

I made button-on-apron for dress

I saw this one then sewed quickly an apron for a dress of Emmi which has some unremoveable stains 

on front of dress. 

The apron is attachable and reversible, made from 3 rectangles fabric and some buttons. 

I´m thinking about making attachable aprons in many sizes and styles.

Great to cover stains or just pimp boring clothing up.

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Skirt from dress that´s too short

I shirred the back of skirt so the front could lay flat

yellow shorts for my baby boy

I made a pair of shorts/bermudas for Ben from an old pants of his little big sister. Yellow color is wearable for boys and girls, do you think so? I just have to make it more boyish

Cut off the legs, then used leftovers to make belt loops and flaps for a faux flap pocket look.

Tutorial: flat front skirt with box pleats (optional) upcycled from dress

flat front with little box pleats

gathered at the back, with elastic strung through it. 

Do you think it looks like a paperbag skirt?

It was a A-line dress that fit Emmi chest not any more.

I cut and made two little box pleats those were optional for you.

I cut a strip of fabric that is a few inches longer than that skirt is all the way around and 1 3/4 inches wide (for one inch wide elastic).  

I folded it over an one inch wide card board strip and ironed it flat. That´s my trick when working with fabric strips.

Then I pinned the strip all the way around the skirt, sewed all the way around the top of the strip 1/8 inch from the edge, leaving two gaps at side seams for threading elastic through (I´ll do flat front skirt) and a few inches free at both ends.

Then I layed the 2 ends flat, pinned them together right where they met, a mark where they met and flipped them so that the right sides would be facing each other.  

I re-pinned them right where they needed to be sewn together, then sewed them together and trimmed off the excess fabric. Sewed the casing closed (except two gaps at the sides of skirt for elastic through)

Then I strung the elastic through the waistband. 

I started at one side of the skirt, went around the back, the elastic should come out the other side of the skirt.

I sewed the elastic in place right on the seam of the skirt in a matching thread color, so it's disguised.

I pulled the elastic in the back so that it gathers up the skirt a bit, sewed the other side of the elastic in place at the side seam. 

The finished waist should be the same size as your child's waist. 

Then sewed two gaps closed.

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