Throwback Thursday: Bag of Peanuts Halloween Costume • 2 Comments

sarah • July 24, 2014

Just 100 sewing days left until Halloween! Are you making your kids' (or your own) costumes this year? What do you have planned?

I like the kiddos to coordinate for Halloween. Ya know, at least for now when I have a bit of influence. For Halloween 2012 The Boy decided he'd wear his airplane costume again. So that left me thinking about what The Girl could be. On Halloween she was going to be 5 months old. I decided the perfect pairing to the airplane would be a bag of airline peanuts. I found this image online of a bag of Southwest Dry Roasted Peanuts and went to work.

Southwest-DryRoastPeanuts

I bought a blue pillowcase, thinking I would cut neck and arm holes and slip it over her. Then I decided since I normally wore her in the baby carrier that I could just wear her and pin it on around her. I used some fabric paint and spent a few nights painting the pillowcase in the likeness of the example. (I left off the "byte-sized fares" part simply due to time.) Here's the final result.

bag o peanuts costume for baby carrier

I'm linked up to Bernie's Handmade Halloween at Needle and Foot.

The Boy’s Party Shirt • 12 Comments

sarah • July 23, 2014

I made The Boy a bowling shirt to wear to his sister's party. When I asked him what he wanted me to make for his party he chose another bowling shirt. The Scientific Seamstress has a lot of options in her pattern, so it was fun to make another shirt using the same pattern that was totally different. After choosing my collection of coordinating blender fabrics I had him chose which three he liked best. We like wild, but while I knew I'd use all seven fabric's for The Girl's dress, I thought that might be a little over the top for the bowling shirt. I made this one a little longer than his ladybug shirt, and I opted to make the middle stripe of fabric longer than the pattern suggested, since it was my feature fabric. I love it!

Thanks for taking a look at one of my 2014 Q3 Finish Along Goals. Check out The Girl's party dress from yesterday's post.

I'm linking up on Let's Bee Social and Show and Tell Tuesday.

I'm linking up to Finish Along Quarter 3 Finish Party. Here is my full list of Q3 Finish Along Goals.

The Girl’s Stripwork Peasant Dress • 5 Comments

sarah • July 22, 2014

For The Boy's 4th birthday party the theme was Airplanes and Helicopters. I had nearly two fat quarters of this cute juvenile print:

After a trip to The Intrepid Thread, I had a half dozen lovely blender fabrics to go with it.

For The Girl, I had decided to make CKC's Jewel's Stripwork Dress. It's less detailed than some of the dresses I've made, so I thought it would go together quickly and I was right. It's also neat that there are a lot of options, three sleeve lengths, bottom ruffle, sash, not to mention I could make this exact style but just use a different number of fabrics. Since I had 6 fabrics I wanted to use for the skirt portion this time I just did 12 panels (instead of 14) for a slightly less full skirt. I'll definitely be making this dress again!