Bunting for Little Ones!

Okay... so I LOVE bunting! You might remember when I made some for Emily's room. I was amazed at how  something so simple could make such a difference! We wanted to 'girl up' Emily's room... but didn't want to go to the trouble of painting it, as I was expecting at the time, and we didn't want to re-paint if it was a boy. Turns out it would have been okay  ;-)

I have made some more bunting here & there, but kept cutting bits off my cardboard template each time, so I treated myself to a real template!!! I just love it. And so I set to work making some new products for Taylored4Baby!

I wanted to make something for boys and something for girls. When selecting the fabric for the boys bunting, I couldn't go past the Noddy range! It's just so... BOY! The fabrics I chose are classic blues, greens, reds and yellow.

And for the girls... it's got to be Melly & Me's Little Menagerie range! I just love the warm gentleness of the colours, but they are still quite bright at the same time. LOVE them!!!

Really pleased with how these turned out. You can get your own set of boys or girls bunting here & here if you wish! It really does transform a room, and it looks glorious strung up outside in spring or summer!

A Melly & Me baby gift!

Recently... (okay, a few months ago...) a dear friend of mine had a beautiful baby boy: Lachlan. I wanted to make something special for him. Something he could use, and keep for a long time. So I made a cot quilt!

It's made from the Melly & Me Little Menagerie range and I paired it with a simple white cotton so that the fabrics could really pop! The design of the quilt is modelled quite closely on one that's featured in the Melly & Me book Kaleidoscope. There are some very cool ideas in this book!

I happen to know that this little boys room was decorated 'gender neutral', so I wanted to help make it a baby boy space without making drastic changes, hence the most popular thing since sliced bread (at least in my head) BUNTING! 

Of course I forgot to take a pic of the bunting before I sent the package off... but here are some leftover bits! I figure if someone has a little boy... and they happen to name him a 3 letter name, I can make some cute bunting to go over the cot  :-)

Welcome to the world Lachlan!

x

The Warhol Dress x 2

Recently I have discovered the blog Made. I just love it! There are so many gorgeous, simple tutorials that I know I can do! I think I am going to end up making every single thing on there!!!

Anyway, it's getting colder here in Oz, so of course, my first 'made' project should be the Warhol Dress! What can I say... I just got too excited, and there's nothing wrong with being ready for Summer early right??

So I went shopping, and given that it's the end of Summer, I got these 2 tops for $10 instead of $40!

And then I followed the simple pattern and instructions and came up with these! The first one is for Lexi, who is currently 7 months. I hope that she grows into the length! If not, it's easy enough to adjust!

And this one is for Emily. Looks kind of short you say? Doh! I think it is. We'll see when summer comes around. I tried it on Emily, but she kind of had a freak out because of the bow (?), so I quickly had to decide where the hem should be. As you can see in the 'before' picture of the shirt, there was more to the print below where I have made the hem, so I ran the risk of it being too long, or too short. Maybe Emily can wear it as a top? (If she gets over the bow issue...)

Overall, super easy to make! The only problem I had it that when I was ironing the yoke for the first dress (Emily's - DYN-O) it kept rolling, and drove me absolutely nuts! So for the second yoke I ended up overlocking the edges. I think the yoke is better if you don't do this, but for my sanity... it had to be done!

I think next time I will get some plain shirts from Kmart or something. I think if you go with one that already has a print, you just need to be careful about the hem line. I also need to play with putting my own prints on them  :-)

Go buy some shirts!! Give it a go!

x

More Melly & Me...

First came Phoebe, and my next Melly & Me creation has been Dee Dee and... Dee Dee I guess, seeing as yet again I made two! This time one goes to my MIL for Just Patchwork, and the other goes to my girls... Yay Emily & Lexi!!

Lexi (7 months) just loves having a bit of a chomp on poor Dee Dee, and Emily loves helping her 'swim' through the air. When I finished Dee Dee no. 1, Emily had been napping. She woke and came into the family room to say hello and was so excited to see Dee Dee! 'WOW!' Imagine waking up and magically there is a new toy! It gave me such a lovely warm fuzzy feeling to know I could make it for her.

So what did I think of the pattern? LOVED IT!!!  Really did. It was quite simple and straight forward, and was realitively quick to make. Just my kind of project  ;-)

If you want to get your hands on a pattern, you can get it here. As I said in a previous post, the link is to my in-laws store. You can't get the patterns directly from Melly & Me however there are loads of stockists listed on their blog. This is just the one I know  :-)