In all the time that I have been sewing (about 10 years), I have NEVER sewn anything for a baby shower! Not even once! For one, I never felt that I had the skills. And for another, I usually just made a whole bunch of hair bows and called it good.
Well, my cousin is pregnant with her first baby. A little boy. I am so excited for her! I couldn't just give in to my old fall back because you don't usually find hair bows on little boys and we don't have the money for an outfit, so I would just need to sew one.
Oh darn!
Searching through my fabric, I found this adorable brushed sweater knit that I got from Knitpop in an auction and I decided it would be perfect for a little sweater. After some searching, I settled on the Sawyer by Annelaine Patterns. It has a ridiculous amount of fun options, but all I was interested in was a perfectly simple sweater with inset sleeves. And it comes in a huge size range, including this little 12-month size, perfect baby shower size!
Gotta add pants to the sweater! I had this great denim in my stash, it's black and silver woven denim. It isn't metallic, but it is super pretty! I had more difficulties picking a pattern. I really wanted to stick with the 12-month size of the shirt and picking a woven denim greatly reduced the patterns I had to pick from. I ended up choosing the Kid's Moto Pants pattern by Ellie and Mac because I wanted to use this crazy beautiful Harley Diamond Quilted for the moto patches and then I added the cuffs because I needed to show more of this awesome fabric from The Fab Clique!
Yeah, so pretty much the most perfect baby shower gift EVER! I can't believe this is the first time I've ever sewn for a baby shower! First, but definitely not the last!
What is your go-to baby shower gift? There are about 4 more baby showers coming up in the next 6 months, I need some more ideas!
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Well, my cousin is pregnant with her first baby. A little boy. I am so excited for her! I couldn't just give in to my old fall back because you don't usually find hair bows on little boys and we don't have the money for an outfit, so I would just need to sew one.
Oh darn!
Searching through my fabric, I found this adorable brushed sweater knit that I got from Knitpop in an auction and I decided it would be perfect for a little sweater. After some searching, I settled on the Sawyer by Annelaine Patterns. It has a ridiculous amount of fun options, but all I was interested in was a perfectly simple sweater with inset sleeves. And it comes in a huge size range, including this little 12-month size, perfect baby shower size!
Gotta add pants to the sweater! I had this great denim in my stash, it's black and silver woven denim. It isn't metallic, but it is super pretty! I had more difficulties picking a pattern. I really wanted to stick with the 12-month size of the shirt and picking a woven denim greatly reduced the patterns I had to pick from. I ended up choosing the Kid's Moto Pants pattern by Ellie and Mac because I wanted to use this crazy beautiful Harley Diamond Quilted for the moto patches and then I added the cuffs because I needed to show more of this awesome fabric from The Fab Clique!
Yeah, so pretty much the most perfect baby shower gift EVER! I can't believe this is the first time I've ever sewn for a baby shower! First, but definitely not the last!
What is your go-to baby shower gift? There are about 4 more baby showers coming up in the next 6 months, I need some more ideas!
The links provided in this post may be affiliate links where I receive a small commission from your purchase at no extra cost to you. Thank you for supporting me, my blogging and my sewing!
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