Sloane
October 20, 2001 - June 11, 2014
Dress pattern and tutorial found here.
The initial onesie was made with freezer paper stenciling. The purple and pink onsies were dyed. The template for the Sugar and Spice onesie can be found here. The tutorial for the skirts is found here.
The pink flower tutorial is here; the felt bow, here; and the rickrack flower, here.
Baby barefoot sandals tutorial
Now that these are finished, I can send them to my niece who was born two weeks ago and start working on stuff for my nephew who is scheduled to be born in a week.
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His tail needed to be removable, so it's attached with velcro. The cowl also needs to be removable so it is a separate piece as well.
Joshua's was the easiest; he wore his old Darth Vader costume from a few Halloweens back. The only new addition was black boot covers using this tutorial from Melly Sews.
For Charlotte and Madelyn's Princess Leia look, we used hair donuts to create the side buns. Madelyn didn't have enough hair to make proper buns, so we just bobby pinned them to her pigtails. For Charlotte's dress, we took a white flat sheet and cut a hole in the middle for her head. For Madelyn, we cut head and arm holes out of a pillowcase. It was cold, so both girls wore long sleeved white shirts under the dresses. For their belts, I found silver sequin elastic at Hobby Lobby and just sewed the ends together to make a loop.
Nathaniel wanted to be Luke from A New Hope. We used white baseball pants and a white karate shirt for the main costume. I made brown fleece boot covers using the same tutorial as Joshua's and sewed a strip of the remaining fleece into a loop for his belt.
Come back tomorrow for another Star Wars project I've been working on.
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The sidewalk path through the wall of snow
Check out the mailbox across the street.
It's a good day to sit by a fire with a warm drink while knitting.