The easiest refashion project yet! It literally took me longer to thread my serger for this one than it did to complete the project from start to finish!
I had this onesie that was too snug for Alyssa at the snaps due to her long torso! Now I have seen where you can add an extension to the snap area to keep it as a onesie...but I decided to do something a bit different. I decided to make it into a shirt.
I cut off the bottom of the onesie right above the leg binding.
Then I just serged the bottom of the shirt. I used wooly nylon thread and stretched the onesie as I serged to give it a ruffle effect.
That's it! Easy as can be!
Here is my little model wearing the shirt! :-) She actually cooperated for the camera this time. She even said "cheese"!!
(and she is wearing her new skirt with attached leggings)
Our New Blankets
I thought I would go ahead and add to this post the kids' new blankets! We were at Wal-Mart the other day in the fabric section and Seth and Aaron found the novelty cotton prints and started yelling "Mommy I want this! Make me something!" Of course how could a Mommy say no...especially when it would allow Mommy to sew and it was something other than a toy they were begging for!
Anyways I told them to pick out their favorite print. Seth chose a fireman print, Aaron chose a Disney Cars print (of course) and Alyssa chose Eeyore and Pooh (I held up several girlie ones for her to choose from...she pointed very plainly to that one.)
I got a yard of each of those fabrics and a yard of coordinating fleece. I came home and washed and machine dried the fabrics so that they would get their shrinking done and then I just simply sewed the two together (right-sides in...and then flipped and then top sewed around all edges).
They loved them! The only mistake I made was thinking Alyssa wouldn't care as much about them as the boys. I made sure I finished both boys before giving them to them so that they got them at the same time. I hadn't finished Alyssa's though...and boy was she mad that she wasn't getting her blanket yet! She sure let me know she was mad about it too! I have never made something so fast as I did her blanket :-)!!
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