Here are the rest of the shirts I made Jack in the shirt frenzy… These are all from Kwik Sew 2918, size 4T.

This one might be his favorite – it has cement trucks on it. I have a lot of boy fabrics, but when I saw someone selling this, I knew I had to get it for Jack.

Lizards, Turtles and Snakes and Cowboys

Dogs and Dinos

Same pattern as the t-shirt from a couple weeks ago, but this time I made the capri pants. I used a butterfly camo twill for these, I think if I make them again I’ll go with something a little lighter. I wonder how they would be in seersucker. I didn’t put the drawstring in them because they just felt too stiff and I didn’t think it would play well. I’m just going to hem the bottoms. They call for elastic in the bottom, but they just seem too stiff for that to work well with this material.

These are a size 6. I’d never done pockets like this before and was nervous about it. As it happens, things actually do go quite well with sufficient pressing and reading the directions can sometimes be quite helpful. I took the hem up 3″ from where they were marked for capris and blindstitched them there, hoping to either have enough length to let them down completely to work as pants in the fall or adjust as needed for capri length next year if Zoe can still wear them in the waist.

I love a quick t-shirt pattern. This toddler shirt pattern has never failed me. I cut a bunch of these out and have been putting them together in bits. This one is size 4T. It’s a bit big on Jack right now, but the kid is growing like a weed and I’d like it to still cover his belly by the end of the summer.

The pants are from the same pattern, also in a 4T; this is a no frills elastic waist pant without pockets this time. I used a lightweight dark brown corduroy, durable and not too warm for spring. The shirt is a nice cotton baby rib knit with a nice weight to it. The white background is a somewhat dangerous choice, but we’re living on the edge over here.

This one has been sitting in my UFO pile since the embroidery on the front piece was done. I’m still learning how to play nice with my embroidery machine, and when I finally got this done, I didn’t have time to put together the rest of the pieces.

It took quite a few tries to get the Snoopy embroidery on there right. It was bunching the fabric and just generally making quite a mess. I ended up getting some Super Solvy heavy water soluble stabilizer (wss) for the top and put two layers of tearaway on the bottom. I’m not terribly excited about using the wss again; washing it off was a rather gooey ordeal.

This morning I cut the rest of the pieces for the shirt and threw it together. I also put some fusi-knit on the back of the embroidery. In case anyone was wondering, if the fusi-knit is wrong side up, it does fuse very nicely to your pressing cloth. This shirt is a size 6. The fabric is a purple cotton fine baby rib knit. The lettuce edging will tighten up when it goes through the wash, making smaller curls. Zoe would have lettuce edging on all her tops and dresses if she could. I love it because it’s a super fast finish and very girly.

And here it is on Zoe –

I made this out of some c/l jersey I got from Chez Ami. It has a nice hand to it, very soft with good stretch and excellent recovery. The only downside to it, and jersey in general, is that it loves to curl up once it’s cut. Lots of pinning keeps things flat and properly aligned.

Zoe’s usually a size 116/120 in the Euro sizing. I chose size 119, or J, on this Jalie pattern for her. It fits well through the shoulders, but could have had about a half inch or even a little bit more through the belly. I made it without the ruching on the bottom of the bodice and put in the modesty panel on the top. The modesty panel calls for 3/8″ elastic to keep it stable, but I used 1/4″ instead because the 3/8″ looked too wide. Overall, I’m pretty happy with it. Zoe likes it, her only complaint is that it doesn’t have “curly sleeves.” She’s a big fan of lettuce edging, but I didn’t think that would look right on this top.