Although the
upcycle sew along ended this weekend, I still had one post
to write. Last week I made a onesie from two of my husband's shirts. The
pile of cloths that needs upcycling contained two dark shirts that were
not giving me any inspiration. I could have cut new dark shirts for the
kids from them, but I did not get exited about that idea. Then I
remembered how happy my middle daughter is with her
onesie and decided
to make her a new one.
The previous one is made from fabric that I
did not like that much, and I assumed would be perfect for a pyjama. I
did not realize that I would be looking at this fabric a big chunk of
the week. Whenever we get home my daughter immediate changes in
comfortable cloths (sometimes she has even changed before I have taken
of my coat) and her onesie is on the top of her list. The dark shirts
therefore seemed perfect to be refashioned into a onesie, the dark makes
her a bit more dressed when she peeks around my legs to see the
mailman.
The shirts were not long enough to facilitate a one
piece front (and back), and I opted for diagonal seams on the body. The
two shirts contained just enough fabric, one of the shirts had a very
big letter print which I did not wanted to use. I did not make "before"
pictures because I felt they were just plain shirts and would not have
been pictured well (which I am of course regretting now). One of the
shirts had decorating seams on the sleeves, which became decorating
seams for the hood. I also sewed a decorating label that was on one of the shirts to a sleeve . I made a bounded seam with a contrasting binding
(which came from one of the two shirts)
for the connection of the hood and the collar. I have a good
relationship with my serger and I do not fear changing thread, but I
refuse to adapt the collor thread to the fabric, when worn the seams do
not show.
This time I ironed on stay-tape on the right zipper
location and used an invisible zipper. The sewing of the zipper went
perfectly this time, no wobbly fabric. The onesie will most often be
worn without anything underneath and I therefore also bounded the zipper
sides. The picture might not be very clear, but now only the teeth are
not covered in jersey, the rest is. Last time I bounded it with fabric
from the front piece and folding it. Now I just used an extra strip.
After
seeing the beautiful Silhouette shirts at
Miekatoentje I lost my
resolve and bought one myself. This Elsa is my first flex application. I
now have the machine for one week, and have already used it for three
very different types of projects!
I used the same pattern pieces
as for the previous onesie, but somehow I added too much seam allowance
length wise, which resulted in a bit too big onesie. My daughter did not
mind, but I felt that the legs were just too long and would create
tripping danger. I was considering sewing in elastic at the ankles but
then realised the onesie would probably perfectly fit my son. He tried
it on and it indeed fits perfectly. He has been asking for something
from Frozen for long, he had something with Olaf in mind but does not mind
that it became an Elsa application. My daughter was sad that the onesie
passed her by, but I promised I would make her a new one and that she
will get this one when she has grown a bit.
The pictures are from mixed models, both my son and middle daughter. I mention it because they are really very similar, even my husband
did not notice that the model in the pictures changed (just compare the two pictures where they were laying down)
. I usually joke
that we have a 3D printer at home.
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