Ruffle Butts Bloomers

You can't help but love little baby butts with ruffles!

I have a new little niece who I thought MUST HAVE a custom Alabama Crimson Tide outfit made by me.

She is only about 5 months old and adorable.

I made bloomers in houndstooth fabric (for Alabama)

and personalized a onesie with "Go Bama".

 The bloomers are showing the backside. 

The ruffles will be on back of the bloomers.

The front is just plain.

Last week it was 100 degrees out!

Now it has changed dramatically.

It is now is the high 70's, low 80's. 

She may be able to wear this for about one month.

Oh well!

Maybe her mamma can find her a cute little red cardigan sweater to match.

And some baby legs...

Refashioned Shirt on my Sara

My 8 yr. old daughter in her new refashioned Alabama Crimson Tide tee shirt.

She doesn't like the ruffle!  I am so shocked. She's such a girly girl.

Her dad liked it and told her she would be wearing it anyway.  Bless his heart, he knows how hurt I get when she disses my work!

She didn't mean to be critical, but just didn't know if she liked the ruffle or not.  I told her it made her look like an older girl.  That may work!

I love how it looks on.

She's ready for the game this Saturday.  It will be her first time to go inside  Bryant-Denny Stadium.  Yay!

I decided she should have a new complete outfit to wear to the game so I will be working on that from now until Saturday.  I'll post pictures after the weekend!

Now what will I wear......

Little Girls Game Day Shirt Refashioned

Did you ever wonder why they almost never make cute game day jerseys for women and girls that are a little bit stylish?

We are in Alabama so SEC football is really big, right?  Well so is dressing for game day.  If you belong to a sorority you will be wearing a dress and heels.  If you are a mom you might tone it down a bit.  If you are a little girl you will be wearing either a manufactured cheerleader outfit (god forbid!), a smocked bishop dress representing your team or an otherwise custom made little number.

I always preferred the custom made number.  Since I have two girls I have made probably 11 outfits, one for every year and each girl.

And since my oldest is 8 I am running into a bit of a problem coming up with stylish outfits for her to wear.  It's almost like she is ready for something close to what I would wear.  

Well, I have been wanting to refashion something new forever now so I finally did it.  I found an Alabama jersey of mine that got too small in the dryer but is still a little big for my 8 yr. old.  She has been wearing it to bed but now she can wear it to school on Fridays!

I cut off the sleeves, refashioned them into puffed cap sleeves and took in the side seams.

Then I cut the bottom off to the proper length and used that piece for the neckline.  I cut off the existing ribbed edge around the neck.  Then I shirred the leftover bottom piece using elastic thread in the bobbin, and sewed it around the neckline for a cute little ruffle.

She went to bed and I just finished it, so I can't get her to model it until maybe after school and gymnastics tomorrow.

Here's how it was done:

This is the shirt before we started. 

Then I took a shirt of my daughter's that fits and laid it on top to copy.

I make markings for the side seams on the grey shirt. Then laid the sleeves on top of the cut off ones to 

make markings on those to copy.

 

I gathered the sleeves using a long stitch length and low tension around the top of the sleeves, then drawing up the bobbin thread to gather.  Putting right sides together insert the sleeve into the sleeve opening and pin.  Then stitch around and it is done. If this seems confusing you can get out a shirt of your own, turn it inside out and then stuff the sleeve back inside of the opening and that's this step here.

So I then took the leftover piece cut off from the bottom and shirred it with elastic bobbin thread in the machine.  It didn't gather too too much but that's okay because I didn't really have enough for a lot of ruffling anyway.  I cut the ribbed neckline off and sewed the ruffle piece on top maybe a quarter inch from the very edge of the cut neckline.

 

Much cuter than before! And she will love it that it no longer has a scratchy tag inside.

Like me she looks good in grey, so I wanted to refashion this one especially.

Tomorrow I will try to get her to model it.