Kennel Club Baseball Tee

This is the tee shirt I made for Littlest Little Man's Puppy Party.

The tutorial was supposed to be posted today, but that cute kid in the picture above...well he has ANOTHER double ear infection. Gesh!

SO instead of tutorial today, I thought I would tease you with more pictures...mostly because this is all I have time to put together while holding Little Man.

I am excited to show you how to make this shirt.The shirt was made from two basic cheap-o craft tees and I seriously heart how it turned out.

So I promise that tomorrow there will be a post up on the how-to. Photos are all edited and ready to go. So tonight when small fry is in bed, antibiotic hopefully kicking in, I will type up my little how-to.

For now just admire that cute-ear-infected-face.

Thanks for stopping by, 

see ya tomorrow!

Lined Cardigan from Fleece Pullover

First I wanted to THANK all of you for your wonderfully caring and supportive words concerning Little Man's arm. He is doing GREAT. He is still adjusting to being able to use his arm. I truly appreciated all of your comments, well wishes, and sympathy. Thanks for helping this Momma cope.

On to my Refashion-

This is the second of five refashioned and embellished projects that I will be doing over the next couple of months. I am part of this little sewing project that started with the Ruffled Tee. Project reminder, five different bloggers are all give the same piece of clothing to refashion and embellish.

This months project started out as this-

The old familiar Old Navy fleece pullover. Not my original...silly me forgot to take a before. I ALWAYS do that!

This project was HARD for me. I do not normally care for fleece. I almost always think immediately baby or toddler when I feel it's soft coziness. Since I kept switching to baby mode, it made it super hard for me to think of what to do.

I came up with a cropped cardigan-type thingy. It is a weird mix between a cardigan and a coat. I altered the sleeves to 3/4. I cut up the middle to open it like a cardigan. I added some ruffles, added a belt, and I added a lining. 

Shhhh...truth be told I am not sure I really accomplished my vision. I am also not sure I LOVE it.

However, it is still pretty amazing what you can do with a simple fleece cardigan.

My favorite part is definitely the lining.

Go and see what the other girls were able to do with their fleece. 

Stefi from Just Chic
Jennifer from My Two Butterflies
Sarah from Sweet Pea and JoJo
Amy from Positively Splendid

some of the posts aren't up yet, so keep checking.

Ruffle Tee from JoAnns Tee

A couple of weeks ago I got asked to join a little sewing project. Stefi from Just Chic asked me came up with an idea to have an 5 girls from 5 different blogs all start with the same item of clothing and see what their individual  creative genius will come up with.

The sewing project started with this JoAnns t-shirt. You know the ones. The big boxy somewhat androgynous ones that go on sale pretty regularly. The one rule was that it had to remain a shirt. I thunk and I thunk and I thunk some more (yes I know that is not a real word). I really wanted to be able to not go out and purchase any thing additional.  I chose to embellish using the t-shirt itself.

This is what I came up with, a gloriously ruffly t-shirt. A much more feminine version to its once boring cousin.
 

Here is what I did for this pretty little refashion-

-redid the neckline
-altered to be a fitted tee
-used old t-shirt to be the panel for the ruffles
-cut up the front of the original shirt into strips
-sewed it all together

Add a cute cardigan, a cute flower in and NO ONE would know that shirt came from JoAnns.

Go over and check out the other ladies and see what they made-

Stefi from Just Chic
Jennifer from My Two Butterflies
Sarah from Sweet Pea and JoJo
Amy from Positively Splendid

Oh and in case you want to make your own ruffly tee, these shirts are on sale this weekend at JoAnns for 2 dollars. You could even buy two instead of using an old tee shirt for the panel.

Sewing Projects for Those with Boys are Rare

True there are more sewing projects out there for little girls, but occasionally I find something I can do for my little men. I found this tie pattern at The Purl Bee FOREVER ago. I had the ties cut out for about a month. Then I finally got around to hand sewing the lining part. A month later I finally borrowed some one's sewing machine and sewed the one part that required a machine. Another month later I buckled down and got them done. Ta-dah!

I am going to take a stab at making my own pattern. This one was pretty helpful, but really only great for the 5-10 age group. If I alter this pattern to make one that is shorter and one that velcros I will pass on the wisdom. Look for it in oh probably 6 months! Haha.