DR. WHO?

The costume without a boy

This year, this boy was kind to me and decided about a month ago that he'd like to be Dr. Who for Halloween.  I love it when my kids do that.  No one else could decide until nearly the day before, so this boy got all the home-made goodness.  I did try to find a tweed jacket in his size (8) but I had no luck.  Then I'd thought I could re-fashion an adult sized tweed jacket, but no luck there either.  I didn't want to pay £10 a meter for real tweed, so I was just going to use a brown with black stripes fabric from my stash.  But as luck (fate) would have it, after cleaning and reorganizing our attic, my husband found an old bed skirt, that had been stashed away, and looked almost like tweed. Yippee! Done! I was so excited, I cut it all out that same day, and sewing took about a week.   I lined the jacket with light brown cotton.  The backside of the collar and tops of the pockets are brown gingham. The bow-tie is refashioned from one of his dad's old ties. I love it.  Even better, HE loves it!  (And he can wear it to church, too!)

Knockholt Carnival

I was at the Knockholt Carnival Saturday.
It was great fun, but not the loveliest of weather.
Here are a few of the things I brought to the fair:

Yellow flowers newborn dress (0-2 months)  £15.00

white lace newborn dress (0-2 months) £15.00

And many more...

Bringing back the 70's 

...one boy at a time

Well, the story goes like this, I rarely make (sew) anything for the boys.  Creating boys clothing is harder than it seems.  Especially if it you want it to actually be worn.  I am following along at Project Run and Play and wanted to make something for the "Boy" week. Wednesday night this idea came to me, so I made it up, then had to do several adjustments, but finally finished it Friday night.  I think it looks very cool.  But more importantly, so does Mr.G.  Then it occurred to me that it looks sort of 70's to me, the bold stripe, the brown flanel.  Although I am a child of the seventies, I don't actually remember it.  But when I look back at pictures, it seems to be all about texture and color.  And that is what this shirt is all about, color and texture.





It is very comfortable to wear, made of knit and flanel.  Normally not two fabric that I would pair together, but the color works and  the softness is an added bonus!  I added a hoodie for an updated 70's look, instead of the extra-large collar, also, he probably wouldn't have worn it if it did have the collar.  I trimmed the bottom of the shirt with the striped knit and also the gap in the neck where the hood doesn't meet. (Does that make sense?)  It was an easy enough raglan shirt with a hood pattern, I just used a regular tshirt as a guide for the size. (Many tutorials exist in blog-dom for raglan shirts)



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(This is what happens when the sun is shining right in your eyes, you can't even look at the camera! oh well)





All that is missing is the bell bottoms! (But he definitely wouldn't wear them, so I won't even try!)

Thanks for clicking by!

Leisha

JUNE BUG REMIX

I am following along at Project Run and Play

Last week it was the June Bug dress by Craftiness in not Optional

Miss E was given several shirts by a friend that is several years older, so they are all big on her.  These two shirts happen to be new, never used because the friend does not wear pink.  As soon as I saw them I thought of this project and decided to play along!  This was so easy, and a great way to make a t-shirt look extra cute and girly.

So I took the shirts and cut them off just below the bust, then I cut the front shape (upside down V-ish) off them both, cutting a little more off the striped one, since the shirts are a bit big. I sewed ruffles out of a velvety pink fabric onto the flowered V shape of the top, then sewed it all onto the striped shirt.  I added a band of the velvet pink fabric onto the bottom to make the shirt a bit longer.  Then I took the bottom part of the shirts, separated the back and fronts and then sewed the two backs together, then the two fronts.  I attached them to the top part of the shirt, but placed the fabric so that I got both patterns in the front and both in the back. 

That's it.  Since the shirt already had a hem on the bottom, I didn't need to hem it!   

I think it took me longer to think up how to do it than actually doing it!

Next time I would make the cut-out smaller, but other than that it was an easy pattern to follow. 
This week's theme is "The Boy". ...what to do?

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