Little Stitches Outfit

My sister Kelly bought me an Amy Butler pattern book for Christmas called "Little Stitches for Little Ones". Most of the items, as usual, are for girls and so I needed a reason to make something. A gal in my ward was having a baby shower for a baby girl and so I took the opportunity to try out one of the patterns and I think the results were pretty cute. I used the pattern for the Kimono-style PJ's and used 3 coordinating fabrics (the pattern only calls for 2, I used an additional fabric to bind the edges of the top). The process was pretty smooth, although the instructions are kind of wordy which makes you have to read and re-read them to find out what it is actually telling you to do. But, now that I have made this once, it would be a cinch to make again and only takes a yard and a half of fabric for size 6-9 months. The book includes patterns for sizes 0-3, 3-6,6-9 & 9-12 months, but I want to try and blow up the pattern to come up with a pattern for 12-18 and 18-24 month sizes because I think this particular item would look great even in bigger sizes and could be cute for boys if you used boyish fabrics since it doesn't include ruffles or anything like that. As for the headband, I had made binding tape for the outfit and had a lot left over and had leftover 1" elastic so I decided to make a coordinating headband and sew on a silk flower with button as that seems to be all the rage these days.

As you can see from the photos, I tried the outfit on Sam-bones and he obviously did not appreciate it at all. Darrell nearly had a heart attack when he saw the outfit on our son. I don't blame him.... but you can't tell what it really looks like until you see it on a body. It looks a little small on him because he is 12 months and the size I made was 6-9 months. So, taking into acount how small it was on him, I think the sizes are pretty acurate.

If any of you in the family would like to borrow the pattern just let me know, or you can buy the book for yourself for about $20. I will let you know if I make anything else out of the book, maybe the diaper bag. Who knows!