hitchhiker

Yet, another selfish knit for me. I like this little shawlette/scarf. It was very simple to knit but did take sometime.



pattern: hitchhiker, pattern on ravelry for a small price

yarn: ella rae lace merino (love this yarn)

KCWC: days 3,4, and 5

I spent most of day 3 and 4 sewing flannel pajamas for Jane. I just had to finish them up on day 5. So I decided to make her a second pj top, since I often feed Jane breakfast in her pj's, she could always use extra tops. I decided to do a 90 minute top with the flannel, so I knew I had to cut it a bit big because of using flannel. So that worked but then I went and did a huge seam allowance and that ruined the top. It would fit on Jane but it was a struggle to get on and off, I knew it just wasn't going to be worth the trouble. So KCWC day 5 was a bust. But I did learn. Day 6 and 7 were an even bigger bust. I had no time to sew during the day and when I got the girls in bed each night, I was too pooped to sew. I feel good though that Jane got her last pair of leggings, some doctored up tops, and a set of pj's! Looking forward to the challenge again in the spring.



pattern: top pattern, McCall's 6152, I did not do the interfacing or facing, just used bias tape; pants pattern, traced from another pair

fabric: flannel from Joann's bought a few years ago

Kids Clothes Week Challenge Days 1 and 2

I have never felt I had the time to join in on the Kid's Clothes Week Challenge. Now that I am a stay at home mom, I was hoping to have the time. Jane has been taking some amazing hour plus naps so completing the challenge each day has been pretty good so far. I had another pair of leggings cut for Jane for a few weeks so I decided to use Day 1 of the KCWC to sew the leggings up (using the same tutorial as these leggings).



For Day 2 of KCWC, I made Jane another 90 minute shirt. I cut this shirt a little big so I added a gather to the middle front but I think it should have been bigger. It looks a little messy.




Jane actually needs more shirts. I am so over onesies. So also for day 2 and part of day 3, I cut some of her onesies off and hemmed the bottoms to become shirts. The shirt below, I used the rolled hem on my serger and stretched the knit to make it ruffle. I like the length on this, I was worried if I did a turned up hem the shirt would be too short. I made 3 other shirts from onesies. I am happy that now I won't skip over these clothes in her closet.

can you be in love with a twin needle?

I hope so, because I am. I can't stop using it. The hem looks so much better then using a single needle and sewing twice. I was doing that forever thinking the twin needle was intimidating. It's not. I made a batch of Jane pants with the twin needle.


The ever faithful big butt baby pants.





Then I saw this leggings tutorial on pinterest. It was one of those ideas that you see where everything else is instantly dropped (including Jane ha!) and these were cut and sewn. Seriously easy and cute.



Really happy with the stripe matching, who knew it would be as simple as Made described?! Sometimes common sense is not one of my attributes.


I made these for new little baby, Edrie.





The ruffles killed me on Edrie's bum so I made Jane a pair with some. Kills me on her too!