Onesies for the Little!

It’s probably no surprise by now that I love the Matilda legging pattern from Spit Up & Stilettos. Actually I love all of their patterns, I just have yet to try any of the others :)! And all of their women’s patterns are free! But they also have some awesome kid patterns — soooo now that I have a little nephew to sew for — I decided to try out the Dylan Onesie for this month’s TMS challenge!

**UPDATE: the kid patterns from Spit Up & Stilettos are now available under the label Sadie + Sam; their women’s patterns can be found here**

I wasn’t quite ready to take on Menswear… but for this little guy… that I can do!

(we had a little 6-month photo session last weekend… isn’t he the cutest!?!) :)

So anyway, I made two. For the first, I used this leftover two sided cotton jersey… so now he can match his momma (and his aunt!) lol

For the second one I used some of my Spoonflower puppy fabric (also used for my crazy dog lady project!)… so now he can also wear his furry cousins on his clothes!

The color of the green is more accurate in the second photo (it’s more muted… less neon). I actually got 3 yards of it from Mood way back in October when it was on sale for ~$3/yard after seeing this. I still haven’t made anything out of it… but it made a great accent color for these.

I actually cut the pattern a while back… shows how quickly the littles grow… by the time I got around to making these I had to print the pattern again and cut a bigger size for him :) I cut the 6-9 month size for both and he’s just about there. The puppy one looks bigger but that’s just because of the snap placement (almost learned the hard way not to sew a snap onto the thin jersey fabric :/ eek). I had some black velcro on hand, so I did velcro on one and snaps on the other. I also had a huge duh! moment while making these. I was setting in the sleeves and couldn’t figure out why the sleeves were so small. I was stretching and pinning and stretching and pinning lol until I realized I hadn’t overlapped the shoulder layers as much as I was supposed to. :/ At least I’ll know better for next time.

Other than my own inability to pay attention to what I was doing the pattern was super easy! These are a perfect way to use up knit fabric scraps! Only thing I’d do different next time would be to serge the edge of the binding that shows — that way it looks a little more finished on the inside. But it definitely works either way!