Friday, December 10, 2010

Sometimes I'm productive

So I've always wanted to make clothes for my kids. Unfortunately I'm quite lazy so if there is no need, I don't do things. This summer Brita needed a short sleeved nightgown so I started making her one. Then she got one, so the project was put off. But I finally finished it! (Unlike all the others I've started.) So anyways, here it is. It's definitely not perfect, but I like it and she loves it. So happy day.

It's a bad picture, but my camera batteries were giving out again, so I only got one shot.

This is the pattern I started from. It was too small for her and way too short and I'm just generally bad at following directions, so it got some major changes made to it. I should have paid a wee bit more attention in my pattern drafting class fifteen years ago. And my stitch in the ditch skills are sadly lacking. And hopefully it doesn't just fall apart because my sewing machine definitely won the you-can't-make-my-tension-right battle.

Anyways, there you go. Yeah for me. Yeah for time with no kids in which you can get things done. Yeah for Brita liking it.


This just in: Pictures of a real live girl in the nightgown. Isn't she cute?


The back.

Benton and Brita.

4 comments:

Melissa said...

Lovely. Lovely.

Pamela said...

So very cute, Andrea! (The nightgown and your kids.) Very talented. And not lazy. Sleep deprived sometimes (lots of times?), maybe, but not lazy.

Jenny and the Boys said...

Absolutely darling and definetly not lazy. Any day your kids are fed and still breathing and know that you love them is a good day and a nightgown on top of it is a bonus.
And boxes are seriously under-rated. I think if my kids were young again I would just give them big boxes for Christmas instead of toys because that is what they love.

Jenny and the Boys said...

definitely I should have spelled definitely correctly. . . spelling is just one of the many things I can't do.