Re-Fashioned Onesie With Plaid Skirt & Hat

I have really REALLY been feeling the need for an auction adventure, and an easy sewing project. Well, time constraints, budget, my Love hard at work and well, quite frankly - the cold weather and a baby simply determined that it was to be a sewing project today.

After browsing the how-to-sew this and thats of the blog world, I was inspired by the bucketloads of creative ladies out there. So, I decided there must be something I could whip up this afternoon with what I had on hand, but with a few lots parameters:

• Time to try my first re-fashion
• I must use what I had on hand
• Time to create a wearable something
• No elastic required (I briefly thought I could resort to my old VSecret underwear waistbands - nah!)
• No button holes since I still have never done one with a sewing machine (L-A-Z-Y)
• Must be easily doable with NO pattern
• Something for my little girl

Phew!

So, I took a gray boys onesie that no longer fit her and cut the bottom off.

Using some plaid $2/yard clearance fabric from Joann's, I cut a swath of it, whatever length or width it happened to be (couldn't tell you) - so that it looked like it would end up the right length.

Then I hemmed, hand gathered and somehow managed to attach the plaid to the gray. Since it needed something more, enter hand cut and not so greatly outlined flowers (from the bottom of the onesie) and Viola!

Have I told you that I love hats? It's a new thing. Started when TA entered my life. It's just sooo cute. That is -  her sweet face and soft head in a hat is too adorable. Here's my "pattern". The hem ended up on the outside. I forget to turn the hat inside out. Duh!

Another flower, a few gathers under the flower to fit the hat perfectly, and now I'm done. (I figure the few threads for the gather can be snipped if the hat gets too snug before the outfit does.)

Okay, really, now I'm done. Hours later... (in the monotone narrative voice from the Sponge Bob cartoon).

Never mind that the skirt seam doesn't quite line up with the shirt seam on one side. Or that I have three different threads happening on the inside because I ran out of black.

Of course, tomorrow for church isn't soon enough, so here she is:

Drool and all ...

This was fun! Buttonholes, here I come. Add that to my 2010 to try list, along with the piping. JAC