Dressed Up and Down...All at Once

Since I made a dino hoodie for my nephew Mr. N I needed to make something for my other two nephews. Mr. J and Mr. L are brothers, so I wanted to make them something they could wear together. Enter: the tie t-shirt. I followed the tutorial from The Cottage Home I found here. I followed her tutorial exactly, and the results looked wonderful! The only thing I did differently is that I used a 4T and 7T t-shirts instead of onesies. By the way, Lite Steam-A-Seam 2 is quite possibly my new favorite tool. It is so darn easy to use. When I was reading the instructions on Cottage Home, I was really concerned about creating a clean zig-zag stitch around the tie. I didn't think it would look very clean. But, I went slow and steady, and everything worked out in the end! I'm starting to sew, and I love it!

Mr. J's shirt before the zig-zag stitch.

Mr. L's shirt! 

                     

Dino Hoodie

Dino hoodie! 

I'm not married, but I have 4 little people whom I consider to be my niece and nephews. Technically, my boyfriend is their uncle, but I consider myself to be their aunt. Over the summer, in the midst of grad school, I got the sewing bug. I had been pinning so many fun things on Pinterest, but I had yet to make any of them. Also, the sewing machine my wonderful boyfriend got me for Christmas had been uncooperative. Finally, I made the sewing machine work and decided to get sewing!

I looked through my Pinterest board to see what I wanted to create. If you have ever tried making something for a little boy, you know that there are tons more adorable things for little girls than there are for little boys. That being said...I found this awesome tutorial at Ginger & George. I bought a plain red hoodie for $7 at Fred Meyer, and picked up half a yard of blue felt at Joann's. If I break it down, I don't think I spent more than $10 on this hoodie. This tutorial was so straight forward, and I had a dino hoodie in no time! I didn't take pics when I made the hoodie because I didn't have this blog up at that time! But... I do have some pictures of the finished product.

My nephew says, "RAWR!"

He was so excited about the hoodie that he wouldn't stop spinning! 

My First Post...Ever!

Well, I think I may have finally created a webpage for myself. It most certainly took much longer than I expected. Hopefully this system will work better for me. Friday night I created this pretty awesome website using iWeb, cut me some slack I was home alone. I finally got the pages all pretty looking, and I was pretty proud of what I was able to do. Well my operating system was so out of date that I had to buy a new version through the Apple store. So I let it download and called it an evening. The next morning I tried again to publish my website, but now the operating aystem and iWeb wouldn't work together. I wish I could explain how frustrated I was. To top it off my Office applications no longer work with the new operating system so now I have to spend money to update those since I can't access any of my school papers. Oh technology. Here's to hoping this blog will be better than my last few failed attempts!