This Gramma has kind of a tradition
of sewing a special blessing outfit for the grand kids.
Well...she tries.
Steph had her eye on a darling Nautical outfit...
being "super gramma" I assured her... no problem,
I can make this "easy peasy".
And that was correct...in theory.
Except for the small detail
...there are NO nautical style patterns out there for children.
And most baby patterns are sized
...well just wrong.
So (sew) coming up with this pattern
and the correct size for this darling outfit took
...well a few hours and multiple design tries.
I also had the brilliant (?) idea
of adding onies bottom to the shirt so the shirt would stay nicely tucked in. And it did.
It turned out beautiful...absolutely perfect...simply darling.
With one minor flaw that we didn't catch until "showtime"
... the poor child has to have his shouldesr dislocated or arms broken to get into it.
Here's poor Duke having "flashback dreams"
of being put into the shirt.
Oh dear...
his arms had been rendered useless.
Of course...the outfit we copied can be purchased for only $29.00 online and probably doesn't require breaking the child's arms to get them into it.
But this one IS special.
It was made by Gramma
with A LOT of love.
( I do like to think mine is really cuter and much finer quality :)
( I do like to think mine is really cuter and much finer quality :)
P.S I've got a quick fix that will solve the shirt problem
...now I just get back from Dallas to do it.
2 comments:
LOVE IT!!!! If little Benicio has something similar, I will not mind ;)! Have fun in Dallas wish we could join you!
It was perfect and we got him into it despite it being a bit "snug". Thank you so much for making such a beautiful outfit for him. It's much more special knowing that Gramma made it with lots of love.
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