Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Baby Afghans

Lots of afghans being stitched up here!  Sometimes it seems like they just fly off my fingers!
In December I took ten of them to Project Santa here in my town.



Two different shades of pink look nice together.  Simple double crochet stitch throughout.

You can just ignore that shadow in the lower left corner!


This one  used all the same color, but I mixed up things a little bit by adding some random skipped stitches.



Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Number 2 Shirts (and a Christmas shirt) for BabyStitches

back before i broke my arm i was able to sew some "number 2" t-shirts for babystitches.  her birthday is in early december.  and i also sewed a christmas tree shirt, like i made for granddaughterstitches quite a few years ago.  i found the idea on pinterest.  i just cut a tree-shaped triangle out of green lace, with the curly edge as the bottom of the tree.  fused it in place.




then i used some beading thread to sew on some sequins, topped by little seed beads.  i think buttons could be used, too, for the "ornaments."



i really love this little pink piece of fabric (moleskin?) that is specifically for holding beads.  it does a great job of holding them in place where i want them until im ready to use them.



and here is the finished christmas shirt!



i have never before bought t-shirts from amazon to make these.  I've always been able to find a t-shirt in a store.  this time, however, i hadn't been near a store for quite a while, so i ordered them from amazon.  and you know what happens when you buy a kids t-shirt from amazon, right?  you can't order just one! so i had six shirts and decided to decorate them all.

i made this cute salmon-colored t-shirt.



and a green number on this gray shirt.



the same green number as i put on this green shirt.  i used all batik fabrics this time, to hopefully help with fraying.  and after fusing each number,  i went around each one in machine blanket stitch.  





then i decided to put a letter "e" on one shirt, as her name starts with "e" and she's learning her letters.  i used a cute red print, and there wasn't very much left.  barely enough to save.  but it was a long strip, so i added a ruffle to the bottom of the shirt.  




real simple--gathered the strip by pulling a thread, then sewed it to the bottom hem of the t-shirt.






here is babystitches, modeling one of her t-shirts,




and another one.