Mama Makes

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...

Originally posted on A Sartorial Statement : Upon my return from the hospital after giving birth to my daughter, I realized that I have very few clothing options now that I am nursing.  I do own several button-down shirts, but they are all from before I was pregnant - some are from high school! - and no longer fit me.  Even though I've lost most of the pregnancy weight and my waist and hips are pretty much back to my "normal" measurements, my bust has increased by a good four inches!  And I imagine that as long as I'm breast-feeding, it'll stay there.  In sewing terms, I've gone from a size 12 to a size 16 in the bust, which is slightly infuriating because most of my clothing patterns are in the 8-14 size ranges.  *sigh* Of course, my inner pre-teen is thrilled by this development, as I was used to being a size smaller in the bust than I was in the waist and hips.  However, as someone who likes to make her own clothes, such a fundamental change is a hug...