DIY, Home Decor & Sewing
In keeping with my boy sewing this past week, I made words tiniest & cutest outfit. What is cuter than newborn clothes? Nothing I tell you. My friend just had her 3rd baby on Thursday but it’s her 1st boy, so I knew he needed some boy clothes. I used Rae’s Free Basic Newborn Pant Pattern found HERE.
Sometimes you find a pattern that is so simple yet so fun that you want to keep making something over and over… that is this pattern. Warning, if you are having a baby anytime this year and you are my friend, spoiler alert :) I used her tutorial for “pimping them out” to add the pockets and trim around the bottom. I also added a little ribbon for the tag in the back.
For the onesie, I dyed a white one with black dye and used iron on vinyl that I cut with my silhouette. I usually include one of these handmade onesies with all of my baby gifts and I have had a few people ask about them. I put some for sale HERE in my etsy shop :)
This outfit didn’t help my baby fever. It is at an all time high :/ To make matters worse (or better) I got to hand deliver this little gift to the new baby himself. And I got an hour of newborn cuddles in return.
This week Dana and Rae are Celebrating “The Boy“. It might be one of my favorite blog series all year, boys need clothes too right. I was inspired to sew up some new shorts for the boys- I also needed a reason to buy some Lizzy House Constellations fabric. My youngest can totally pull off Constellation Shorts. My oldest likes more “traditional” prints, stripes, solids and plaid. He turned 3 and got picky about what he wears?!
I used Dana’s Kid Pant Pattern for the 2T and just cut them down to shorts. Her kiddos look super tall and skinny so I should have added even more width than I did. They fit for now but there isn’t a ton of growing room in the legs, my son is kind of on the edge of 2T-3T anyway (and kinda cute baby chubby still hehe).
For the 4T I used a free pattern from My Growing Home. Those fit great!
I serged all of my seams and added labels with a size tag so I was feeling pretty professional :) However, I wasn’t feeling professional enough to change my serger thread color because that’s just too much work.
Each pair only used 1/2 yd so I have fabric left over, yay for fabric hoarding.
Look at these two scheming. These little outfits would be cute for St. Patty’s Day, now pretend you didn’t see them. Have you done any boy sewing lately? I will be honest, It’s hard to see all the cute dresses and tunic tops for girls everywhere but I love making stuff for my cute boys too :)
