Thursday, March 10, 2011

Baby Girl Casual Collection

More baby clothes.
These are made with knits, stretchy and comfy.  I'd like to add a few more shirts into the mix, but for now this is what she'll be wearing. 

HATS
These little knit hats were made using Ashley's tutorial here.

The only thing I changed from the tutorial is adding the buttons in the center of the flowers.

ONESIES
Using fabric paint and freezer paper, I added little forest silhouettes in different colors.
If you have a Silhouette cutter, these would be super easy with the iron-on transfer, or even cutting freezer paper then painting them on.  Oh I wish I had a Silhouette, but of the 15+ giveaways, I've never won.
So I cut the shapes out the old fashioned way...scissors.
If you like my little sketches, you can print them for your own projects here.  I'm still trying to sketch a platypus that I like to add in pink.

For the hedgehog, I just used a detail brush and painted the face, since there's no way I was going to cut such tiny details out of paper.
For the dots on the toadstool and pupils of the owl eyes, I use a hole punch on the freezer paper and iron them on for small perfect circles.

PANTS
Then to finish it off, I made a bunch of little knit pants.  My husband was teasing me saying she'll just wear sweats every day, but what else is a baby going to wear?  Some of the knit was purchased, the rest was upcycled from t-shirts.
I just used another baby pair of pants as the pattern.  Here's a mini-tutorial for using one pair of pants as a pattern.
I used 1/2" wide elastic for the waistbands.   I think each pair of pants ended up costing around $.50 or less.

12 comments:

  1. I sooo love these!!! :) It makes me want to run to the thrift store and snatch up some t-shirts! And I am loving cute owls these days! :)

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  2. These are so cute and I have a ton of friends who just or are about to have baby girls. I have to share this on Facebook. Love your stuff!

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  3. You're like a one-woman factory! Super cute. Your little baby girl is going to have a nice wardrobe!

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  4. These are wonderful, Jess. My favorite go-to outfits for my babies were soft pants with a onesie or the long gowns. She's gonna be a comfy baby!

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  5. My goodness I want to try the freezer paper thing. We have a new Jo Ann's opening this Friday, maybe I'll have to look for the fabric paint.
    Usually if we want something on a shirt we use Sharpie's, except for Dr. Seuss day we added a little fabric paint. I haven't uploaded any pictures from it yet though.

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  6. These outfits look really cute! and only .50 per pant thats money savings! Great job.

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  7. Absolutely adorable! I think they're stylin'... wish I could look as cute as a newborn while wearing sweats everyday :)

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  8. these are adorable! love the colors and that they're not all pink! :)

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  9. 'Streuth girl ..that is going to be one well dressed young lady!

    They look lovely :0)

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  10. Love all the little outfits! I want to make a onesie with that owl on it. Cute.

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  11. Just made these and the Mommy to be LOVED them! I liked up on my blog at sassafrassstyle.blogspot.com. Thanks SO much for the inspiration.

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