I’ve had this idea for a while, but it’s been on the back burner since Embellish Your Onesie Month was taking center stage, but now it’s time for a little bib love. Bibs are a great accessory, but the problem is they get dirty. And so “Ma-Ma” takes the dirty [...]
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 clothing. [...]
All right, we’ve made it to the Handmade Baby Clothes’ Personalize Your Onesie Month, Day 9. The idea for this onesie embellishment was to change up the neckline and make it a onesie that LOOKS like the side-snap onesies by giving it a criss-crossed neckline. I prefer to call it ‘kimono style.’ You can call [...]
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 [...]
Welcome to my first guerrilla sewing experience! What is guerrilla sewing, you ask? It’s a fun name for making an outfit using only items that you have in your home and repurposing them. This is cheap baby clothes at its best. There’s not too much planning — I did a little sketch and off I [...]
Today I found some great pictures of baby clothes made from men’s old shirts. Talk about cheap baby clothes! This is a wonderful way to reuse old fabric. Surely your father, husband, or boyfriend has a shirt or two (or ten) that are just collecting dust. Well, what about transforming it into a great baby outfit? There [...]
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