Baby Boy Blessing Outfit

My 57th completed sewing project for 2009!

I made Zephyr's blessing outfit using the same pattern I designed for his sunday outfit, but did it all white instead.  The fabric I used for the shirt part of the romper is made out of an old white dress shirt, and the pants and vest are made out of scraps from my wedding dress.  I thought that was nice since the girls' blessing dress was made out of scraps from my wedding dress.  I really wanted my kid's blessing outfits to be out of scraps from wedding dress because my blessing dress was made out of scraps from my mom's wedding dress.

If I were to make this outfit again I would lengthen the pants.  They ended up shorter than the black suit outfit.  I didn't remember that I had added so much length to his black outfit.  The length was honestly a little too short, but it works okay for an infant because he isn't standing in it.  I do need to go get his portraits soon it, because length wise through the torso also, he is almost outgrown it.

The want to be Moby Wrap

My 56th completed sewing project for 2009!

I have been "wearing" Zephyr a lot, and I like my Baby Bjorn, and I like my pocket sling, but sometime when I where the pocket sling for a long time, my back starts to get sore, so I thought the moby wrap would be nice.  I bought some fabric last week and I sewed it up today.  I don't know if I got the best fabric, and I think making it longer might have been a good idea, so I will have to give a better report later, but as of now it is done and I am typing this while Zephyr sits in it.

This wasn't a very difficult project.  If you can tell from the first picture it is basically one long piece of fabric.  Because I wanted to make it as cheap as possible, I bought 2.625 yards of fabric, and then cut two stips that were 22" wide and  2.625 yards long.  I did a double duty french seam to connect them, so I end up with 5.25 yards of fabric.  Then I hemmed all the edges.  That's the reason this actually feels like a sewing project is because of all the hemming!

White bow tie for blessing outfit

My 55th completed sewing project for 2009!

Ben and I have been vascilating back and forth whether we wanted Zephyr to where a white little suit for his blessing or wear his black suit and having matching ties with Ben.  I think we finally decied to do a white outfit. 

When I was at Joann's last week I found some really nice white fabric to make a bow tie for his blessing outfit.  So I finished the bowtie today.  Now I really need to get working on the pants and vest, the shirt is basically done.  We are blessing him this Sunday, so I have the rest of the week to get everything ready.

Baby Boy Neck tie

My 54th completed sewing project for 2009!

This is another conversion from one of the ties that my Dad gave me.  I decided that Zephyr needed some diversity, bow ties and neckties.  Also making neck ties is a little cheaper  because I don't need the adjuster clasps for neck ties, also I was having a hard time getting adjuster clasps, it seems that Joann's doesn't always carry them in stock.

Also a side note I was really proud of myself because I learned how to tie a neck tie, so I tied this myself, I love finding tutorials on the internet.

These are a couple of works in progress pictures.  First I took apart the men's neck tie.  Then I trimmed down the interfacing to the size I wanted the baby's neck tie to be finished.  You can see the interfacing lying on top of the tie on my ironing board.