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from poppa to baby pants

By on June 22, 2013 in Handmade, Sewing and Crafts

Not sure why I was surprised but last Sunday, I had a hard time finding any clothes that could fit Matthew.  I scraped together an outfit for him to wear to mass and then added making him clothes to my mental to do list.

A few days later, Poppa comes home with ruined pants which he was about to toss.  He gave a me the look when I told him to put the pants on my sewing table.  The look he gives me when I have shared one of my Lucy and Ethel type plans.  I told him the baby needs new pants and I could  probably use the fabric from his pants to make them.

Last night, I took my seam ripper out and started taking the pants apart and an hour later I had a new pair of pants for my little guy.  The zipper is still functional and I added an elastic waist band to the back side.  Now,  I just need to buy Poppa a new pair of pants.

He still needs more pajamas, shorts, shirts and some comfy pants so instead of buying them I  am going to see how much of it I can make from clothing we already have and fabric from my stash.  The downside to this you know is that my baby is really growing up, can you believe he is already 9 months old??

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Hand dyed fun at home

By on April 23, 2013 in Handmade, Knits and Crochet

This weekend, 3 of our big kids went away to their first sleepover.  Erica could not go because she continuously forgets to do her chores and also being the momma of the abandoned baby bunny keeps her closeby to do the three daily feedings.  Being a great big softy (though I try to never undermine Poppa’s authority) I decided we girls that had to stay home would have just a little bit of fun.

I have been meaning to make Matthew a new pair of longies for sometime and started the waist band from the skeins of Peace Fleece in my stash.  When I got to the body,  I longed for some colorful hand painted yarn, the type that costs more than I would feel OK with spending.  I did have two natural colored skeins of Peace Fleece and so we got to work.

After Matthew was put to bed, we covered our wooden butcher block counters to protect them from getting dyed, mixed up our dyes from cake decorating  dyes and got to work.  We just let the colors fly without worrying about the outcome.  The yarn was the steamed, carefully rinsed and hung to dry inside since we are having all rainy days of late and when we were finished, this is what we got.

I balled up the dyed skein using my thickest knitting needle as a nostepin.  I am planning on making a nostepin to use for winding up my yarns though I will wind them flatter so the ball stays together better but I do love the way this one turned out and already have used half of it on the longies.

If we get more rain today then I will be working on the longies but if the sun comes out we are continuing to work on building the milking stanchion and my diapers could use some sunning : )

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