fall tee

After seeing some cute candy corn tees around I decided I wanted to make one :) So I took a white eyelet shirt I had that had become to big and cut it up to be my white. I also took a yellow shirt of my boys that didn't fit right and was rather worn and cut it for the yellow. I then sewed it together like strips.

Now it was time to cut out my candy corn using my template.

and sew it on. Since the shirt was for my daughter and I wanted it a bit more frilly I added a ruffle along the bottom, also cut from the eyelet shirt :)

With the remaining section of fabric I cut out a few strips to make some matching rosettes!

Rolled them up and pinned them to sew.

And here's the finished product!

Candy Corn bunting

So as you can tell I've lately found some new blogs that have gotten me super inspired to craft! After seeing this, and this I decided to give it a whirl! So my first version (smaller ones)

only I decided to do the back in a plain yellow cause it's what I had for "support" but then I realized I could hang it reversed for easter or spring! Bonus!

Here's how I hung my second set (these are larger)

And a close up :) I was pretty excited with how they turned out! For someone who had done virtually no sewing a few weeks ago I'm pretty pumped about all this use on my machine and how much I'm learning on a rather cheap budget :)

I did it!!

For the first time EVER I used the zigzag stitch on my machine and did a project! I was soooo pleased with how it turned out :)

This was the onesie I dyed using this tutorial by Honey Bear Lane :) Funny part....it was going to be a red striped onesie but apparently I forgot the last step in the directions (ironing it to set the color :) so I got a dark pink and light pink when I washed it! Thankfully it was for a little girl gift so it worked just fine, but when I go to do the little boy one I WILL remember that step ;)

And I got this little denim dress on clearance at Walmart (for $1) and thought it was perfect, you could put long sleeves under it with pantyhose for fall and short sleeves for warmer days. I wanted to add a tad bit of color so I stitched another row of embroidery to add a pink heart to match the onesie.

I then made a matching hair clip for the initial onesie and voila, a "handmade" lovely gift for baby!