Repurpose: My old shirt to a toddler shirt

It's been awhile since I've shared a sewing post. I have a bunch of old button up shirts that I have been meaning to make into clothes for my girls. Here's the first shirt I made:
I made it from this old shirt. Bri wanted a matching hair clip so I looked at some of the frayed rosette tutorials and combined a few ideas. Best tip I found was using a pipe cleaner to wrap the fabric around, it makes it so much easier! I also had an old knit shirt that doesn't really fit anymore. However, I loved the print so I just altered it into a dress for Bri. She has worn it 2 days in a row and is sad that it now needs to be washed! I'll be making some more of these for summer!!
I also have a few other things I'm "repurposing" to share. I'll try to make a tutorial for some of them!

Easter Dresses

My girls in their Easter Dresses. I had some fancy fabric and a different pattern chosen, but Brianna wouldn't have it! She wanted a dress that was pink and green and white...luckily I had some fabric in those colors that coordinated. (Recognize the pink fabric? It's the left over from Brianna's comforter! I love being able to use "scraps.") My little "designer" is starting to have too much say in what I sew!!! A sisterly strangle!!!I might be a little obsessed with the fabric rose flowers!! I have so many things I want to put them on. I had made a larger one, but Brianna insisted that she needed 5 flowers on her dress. She wanted them all large, and 2 on her sleeves....we settled with 3 smaller ones! Now I want to adorn all of their clothes with them!Miranda is still so distracted with what's on the ground for outside photos...so this was the best we got!

I love Easter and the fresh colors of new life we find everywhere! Hope yours is a good one!

Spring has Almost Sprung

Wow, it's March! I am so excited for the spring! I made the girls some matching dresses from a pattern made by Pink Fig called the Lydia Dress. I love it, but shirring was not my friend this time around. I've tried it before and had success, but I was ready to pull my hair out this time! Maybe my machine could use a tune up?! I can't count how many times I had to undo the tops of the dresses, but I finally found a way around it that at least works for now!

On Thursday Bri was begging me for a photoshoot and since the sun was out and I had finished the dresses we packed up and went. A lot of my photoshoots with them are spur of the moment. (My friend Megan came along with her girls too! I have a few pics of them to share later!) By the way, I'm sure it's not normal for most kids to be begging to go on photoshoots!

Bri was easy at moments, and totally crazy at others! She's at that age where every smile is forced and not natural unless she's really laughing or smiling about something. Luckily she had lots of good moments too. Here are some of her shots!Please ignore the silver shoes...I didn't realize she had no matching shoes til we were walking out the door. Guess I get to go shopping! ( I still don't know what's causing this linking text...please help me undo it!!!)She reminds me of Alice in Wonderland here!Miranda is at a really challenging stage. She is so curious and on the move, that even with a helper I struggled keeping rocks, dirt and grass out of her fingers and mouth. She rarely looked up, no matter what I did. The pictures of the two together just didn't turn out at all. Oh well, here are a few of Miranda. Even containing her in a tub wasn't the answer. So pensive....she never sits still like this! I'm sure she was thinking, "When is this going to end?"

I made a a ruffled diaper cover, but never got around to taking a picture because she was constantly trying to stuff things in her mouth...and with all of her food allergies and stomach issues any foreign thing causes a lot of inflammation.