Prepaid Project #5 ~ Baby Onesie Makeovers

My baby girl had several long-sleeved onesies that she barely wore last Winter because by the time she fit into them it was getting warm outside and she started wearing more short-sleeved clothes. I decided that since they looked new I could make them cuter and give them to my sister for her baby girl to wear this Fall. I cut out the appliques from fabric scraps and used Wonder Under to attach them to the shirts and then I sewed all the way around them. Fun and easy!! Have I mentioned that I looooove Wonder Under?? It's fabulous! It holds fabric in just the right place while I sew around it and it gives the appliques some added stability.

I think I'll make some hair things now to go with her cute new shirts. And I have a couple more girl onesies to do and some new boy onesies for gifts too!

Prepaid Project #4 ~ Bat Shirt

Does it look like that bat is flying??? Yes? Yes. That's because our little guy rarely stands still!!

He wants to be a bat for Halloween again. (Yeeeessss!!!) Last year I sewed some wings and some ears on to a black hoodie (he doesn't really like costumes so I figured I'd go for a clothes-like costume and he loved it). This year he can still wear the same hoodie but I wanted to make him a shirt to wear under it because he's a little heater-box boy and doesn't leave jackets on for very long.

A few weeks ago (before I started my prepaid project plan) I found some plain 5T shirts at Dollar Tree so I grabbed them. (Disney and Hanes brand...so they are made out of good fabric.) I already had some black knit. So I drew out half of a bat on some paper and measured it on the shirt to make sure it would fit and then I cut it out. Then I folded the knit and laid the pattern on the fold and cut out the bat. Then I traced the bat on to Wonder Under (fusible web) and I ironed the web on to the bat cutout. Next I folded the shirt in half down the middle of the front and marked it with a pin. I lined the bat up with the center and ironed the bat on to the shirt. Next I sewed all the way around the bat with black thread using a regular straight stitch. I asked him if he wanted his bat to have eyes and he said yes so he picked some buttons for the eyes and I sewed those on. I think I might add a silly smile to the bat's face with some embroidery floss before he wears the shirt for Halloween. He's pretty "batty" about bats (haha) so this shirt will get worn a lot. And I'm pretty sure he won't wait for Halloween to wear it...hopefully we can keep it stain-free until then.

Prepaid Project #3 ~ Doll Diapers

I recently saw this tutorial and knew that I needed to make some felt doll diapers for one of my prepaid projects. Not for Andi's dolls...for Jacob's. Since Andi was born Jacob has periodically been carrying one or two of his stuffed animals around, pretending they are babies. I gave him a few of the newborn diapers to put on his "babies" but they didn't fit the smallest stuffed animals. So this tutorial was the perfect thing to fix his diapering needs!

Jacob is so happy that his "babies" are all diapered up now!