Toddler Flannel Pajamas

I recently made two pairs of flannel pajamas. I used THIS pattern. Because it was made for stretch knits, I had to change the top a bit. I thought about just making the head opening larger, but then I realized a toddlers head is much larger than their shoulders - proportionally. The opening would have had to be too large. I decided to line the neck and front opening (I added) and make buttons in the front. It was pretty easy and I think they look great!
The bottoms are simple pajama pants - just like adults! So easy and so comfy to wear.

My son trying them on. He loved the "birds" on the fabric.

A second pair.

My son called these the "music" ones. I guess he knows what a music note is. It's funny the things kids catch on to and remember.

New Fabric

I've pulled out some of my fabric stash to help me get going on some upcoming projects! I'm really excited to finally use the fabric I bought over a month ago - life gets busy with the holidays, right?

Some of the fabric will go to create new bags for my ETSY shop and some will be NEW items added to my ETSY shop. After having many, many e-mails and convo's on Etsy, I decided to add an item very needed to go with my lunch bags. Stay tuned!! I hope to have them posted by the end of the week! Any guesses??

This fabric I bought at a yard sale this summer. It's heavy decorator weight. I've always loved stripes and couldn't help myself for $.25!! It's going to go be a project for myself AND serve as a help for a NEW pattern in my ETSY shop as well.

What can I say, Etsy has been on my mind a lot lately and it's one my New Years Resolutions (I didn't post about it though. . .).

Off to sew!

Finished Table and Chairs!!

Remember THIS post?? Yes, it was a long time ago. I finally finished these chairs and table yesterday!! Yeah!!
They were sitting in my sons room, in the corner, unfinished all Fall. I finally decided it was time to put the cushions back on and let him use them! I painted them long ago - this summer a few weeks after I bought them to be exact.

I was waiting on buying a staple gun to put the fabric over the new cushions. Once I bought the staple gun the chairs were already out of my mind. My husband has been asking me about these chairs and table for a while, so I decided it was time!
My son enjoyed helping me since he's been helping his Dad with "tools" lately. He quite enjoyed using the screw driver to poke in the holes and over screws. It was actually a pretty fun activity for the both of us.

He's been coloring on the table all day today and saying, "food?" when he sits down. Cleaver kid!

Crayon Roll

For Christmas I put a crayon roll in my 2 year old sons stocking. He loves to put things in small spaces and take things out. I figured this would be perfect for keeping him busy. I was right! He LOVES it.
My husband wasn't a huge fan of the colors. He thought it was more for a girl. I didn't really mind because it was scrap fabric in my stash :) Yellow and black are boy colors right? My husband also thought a velcro closure could have been better because what 2 year old can tie a bow? I had to give him that one. Next time. . .
I also found that regular crayons are a bit too short for the length of my pockets. The crayons tend to get stuck at the bottom. I used larger/thicker crayons for measuring this. I can always stitch a .5-1" seam along the bottom to lift the crayons up a bit.

Hours of fun. I think my son enjoys putting the crayons away and getting them out more than actually using them for coloring.

New Years Sewing Resolutions

I constantly feel like I have a list of 10 or more things I want to sew or create. Sometimes it's exhausting just thinking about everything I would like to sew.

I was reading a blog this morning about sewing resolutions. What a great idea! I have 4 major goals.

#1 - I decided to organize the projects in my head by priority and in order of when to tackling each one. I wrote them each down so I have them on a hard copy and something to keep me going.

#2 - I want to use more of my stash of fabric before buying new. Sometimes, I realize, a project requires new or different fabric than I have. I would really like to look through my stash and find projects that could go with the fabric I already have.

#3 - Blog more often!! Yes, I know I'm not too regular. But if I could stay on top of my sewing projects I could at least blog once a week. That's a realistic goal. Then it will keep me sewing too :)

#4 - Last but certainly not least, I would love to Sew to Serve . I found THIS link of many different opportunities to sew for good. What a great reason to sew! We all have down time in between large projects, this would be a good thing to fill that void of time.

Happy New Years to you all!