Burp cloths are a new baby necessity. The designer burp clothes are so popular; I have some for my daughter that I love, but they are monogrammed, so while I will probably still use them around the house for this upcoming baby, I knew I needed some more… to avoid confusion, of course. Good thing [...]
You may have seen my previous post on the “Slide Shorts” pattern that I’m developing for my active daughter. If you did, then you probably saw that there wasn’t enough ease in the crotch and we had a blow-out. This post is just an update to show [...]
If you’re like me, you hate to buy things that you know you are ultimately going to throw away, especially when you could make something better yourself. Take disposable bibs for example. 36 for $18 at Target? Or even 24 for $6 on Amazon? Call me cheap, but “no, thanks,” says I. So, to [...]
Do you have a button stash? Some people have wonderful stashes: jars that have been passed down from your great-grandmother’s house – full of vintage and unusual buttons. Some people, like me, aren’t quite that lucky, but they do have a place where they keep all the extra buttons from new [...]
If you’ve seen yesterday’s post, you know I told you I wasn’t completely through with that onesie; I was going to give it some extra personality. Well, that’s where we’ll pick up today. Like many of my onesie transformations, this update is an example of how you can create [...]
Handmade baby clothes don’t have to be 100% handmade. I mean, you’re not out there picking the cotton, weaving it, dying it, and then making a baby dress out of it (at least I’m not!)! So, why not take a mass produced onesie and embellish it into something handmade? Why not indeed!
In the last cold snap, I realized my daughter barely had any warm dressy clothes. Using a flannel shirt of my husbands that was headed for Goodwill, I made a skirt from the shirt sleeves before church that morning. Yes, I did this in like two hours, and that was figuring it out [...]
Have you seen the innovative infant girl clothes made from men’s buttondown shirts? I posted some of my initial inspiration a while back here. They embrace the spirit of recycling and thrift and handmade, so I have been wanting to give it a try. Last weekend I was in that spirit, [...]
While many of my posts highlight some of the fantastic handmade baby clothes designers and inspirers out there on the world wide web, this post is about, ahem, ME. Or should I say, it’s about pants. That I made. For my daughter. This is the first mechanically-assisted garment I’ve made! Whoohoo! Okay, this may not [...]
Bibs are a bit of a gray area of the handmade baby clothes world. Are they really clothes? Well, depending on the drooli-ness of your baby, their bib may be the thing that is seen more often than that cute top underneath! So in my opinion, a bib is definitely clothing in [...]
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