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Old T-Shirt Onesies

This has been a really fun project!  I had two old t-shirts that needed to be retired from my wardrobe, but I really liked them both and didn't want to just throw them away.  So I had the brilliant idea to turn them into onesies for my sweet pea!   You can see that both shirts had pretty awful sweat stains, which is part of why I no longer wanted to wear them.  But there was still plenty of good fabric to be had.  I started with this one: This was one of my favorite shirts for a while.  I was upset when, not long after I bought it, I got a couple of bleach spots on it somehow.  But I decided not to let that stop me from wearing it, so I bought a bleach pen and turned those pesky spots into a fun design!  And then I loved it even more. I was careful to preserve the design when cutting out the onesie front: The back, being plain, didn't matter as much, so I just cut it in a way to make the best use of the fabric. I wanted to be...

Easy Breezy Baby Dress

My little sweet pea was already two months old before I got around to sewing her any clothes, and now she's three months old before I'm getting around to blogging about it!  (I did crochet a little dress for her before she was born, but she outgrew it before she was four days old.)  My sister Elise did make her a dress that I loved, though: Elise also made her headband.  Isn't it cute? These pictures are from July 2, when she was three weeks old.  I loved the dress for its ease of getting on and off of her, and of course the cuteness factor.  The pattern Elise used is Simplicity 1794. She let me borrow the pattern, but it turns out some of the pieces are missing!  My guess is she has them pinned to fabric for another dress somewhere in a pile of projects.  I've done the same thing.  So I went to JoAnn's to buy my own, but it was out of stock.  No problem, I can reverse-engineer the pattern from the finished dress!  So tha...