Ruffle Butt Onesie. (Originally posted on UCreate) Supplies: Baby bodysuit Fabric Pins Rotary cutter and mat or scissors Sewing machine Serger (Don’t worry, I’ll show you a couple of other options if you don’t have access to one.) Measure the widest part of your bodysuit. This is a 6-9 month Circo brand (from Target). You can see it’s about 8". You’ll want to cut your strips 2-3 times longer than this measurement. I’m going to do 2.5, just to be difficult. Cut three 1.5" strips of fabric. Set your serger to a 3 thread rolled hem stitch. See? About 1" down from the top of the leg holes, measure the width of the bodysuit again. You’ll need 2 strips that are 2-3 times the length of your wider measurement and one strip that is 2-3 times the length of your shorter measurement plus. Fold both ends of each strip under about 1/4" and press. Stitch down the ends you just pressed under.
Sew a long gathering stitch down the very center of each strip. Set the strips to the side for a second. 2 down, one to go. I KNOW!!! Make your own Diaper Covers (and a little altering again…) . You are going to love my newest sponsor, Always Underpay (found here), for many reasons. They have a huge assortment of bows, ribbon, tutus, headbands, hardware, and on and on.
And the name of their shop……Always Underpay? That’s exactly what you do. Check out their site for amazing deals for your own creations, or for supplies for your business. You’ll be so excited you did. I found another little baby shirt to alter…… Remember the long sleeved items that I altered the other day, into these below? Click here to check them out. Today’s shirt was an out of season hand-me-down that I still wanted in my baby girl’s wardrobe for the spring. So I created my own diaper cover. Have you ever made your own diaper cover? I know there are diaper cover patterns for sale so that we could skip the measuring and pencil tracing…..but what’s the fun in that? And yes, I used the fabric from the long sleeves that I cut off from this shirt below, and added them as ruffles to the bum of the diaper cover. Mama's Ruffle Shoulder Bag & Tutorial. Mama's Ruffle Shoulder Bag & Tutorial I've been wanting to make a ruffled shoulder bag but haven't found a perfect pattern that I wanted to pay for (I'm cheap!)
Instead, I came up with this simple pattern using a fat quarter pack I had in my stash. Here's how it came together: Supplies 7 fat quarters (FQ =18" x 21") or about 2 yards of fabric fusible interfacing magnetic snap closure O-ring or D-ring or handle hardware (optional) basic sewing notions Instructions 1. . - Set aside one FQ for the outer bag and one FQ for the lining; cut interfacing for both outer & lining fabrics & fuse together. - Handles / Key loop: one FQ - Cut 2 - 5" x 21" strips for longer handle section; Cut 2 - 5" x 10 1/2" for shorter handle section. Open and press both sides in toward the center crease.
Press center crease closed again. Stitch 1/8” or as close as you can along each long side. Sew O-Ring/D-Ring or Handle Hardware to one end of a short strip. Attach longer handle strip to ring. 3. 4. 5. 6. Trim corner off. 7. The House of Smiths - Home DIY Blog - Interior Decorating Blog - Decorating on a Budget Blog. I'm so excited to be revealing my project for the participation in Andrea's, Spring Board Creative Collaboration event!! :) Whew! That's a mouth full! Basically what this "spring board" is... is a collaboration of a hand full of bloggers from different genre's who are given a set package of materials to create something unique and fun!
You can read more about the collaboration, here on Andrea's blog, and see all the fabulous bloggers involved, and their projects! With these cute items: 2 fat quarters Ric-Rac Square of unbleached cotton Doily First, let's be honest. I opened the package, in about the first 5 minutes, one of my children had stolen the ric-rac and lost it. ugh. Jody also included an adorable additional yard of fabric for all of the contestants and I just couldn't keep my hands off of it, when deciding what to create.
Here's what I created! A fun, ruffly, little girl apron! And here's the basic idea, of how it came together... So it looked like so... I put it on the fabric, like so... Sew.Craft.Create.: drinkin' the koolaid... V and Co: sewing with ruffle fabric: the carry all tote. Well first off, THANK YOU so much for the warm acceptance and love of my upcoming book. :) i'm excited. and i'm excited to see some of you in houston in october. make sure to say hello. i'll be the one with big DOE eyes trying to hide the fact that i'm about to puke. OKAY.so you all saw my first "sewing with ruffle fabric" when i made my skirt (which i think i'm going to be sporting at the Sewing Summit Conference when i'll be trying not to puke in front of people while i talk about "setting up the shot" ) well this time around i made a cute little tote...
**all seam allowances are 1/2" unless otherwise instructed. -on the wrong side of the liner fabric, iron on the interfacing as per instructions that come with the interfacing. -cut out two straps by cutting them from your strap fabric at 6" x 24" (i used the width and length of my cutting ruler, it makes for a really great strap size) -lastly fold in half again, and press with an iron. -turn inside out. -top stitch around the top of bag.