www.etsy.com/listing/91287677/monkey-pants-pattern-3m-24m
so, I thought before I spend money on fabric, i'd try them out with an old t-shirt. I have my favorite shirt my husband brought me from Alaska, but it's falling apart around the logo on the back, so I thought i'd use the usable fabric to make some cute pants. and BOY did they turn out cute!
I also recently picked up some cabbage patch dolls from an online classifieds page and needed some new clothes for them all to wear. .. along with the current dolls at our house. We now have quite a few. :) I found this tutorial and I couldn't resist!
http://obsessivelystitching.blogspot.com/2009/12/baby-onesie-into-doll-onesie.html
http://obsessivelystitching.blogspot.com/2009/06/baby-clothes-to-doll-clothes-tutorial.html
These are what I came up with:
(This girl loves her babies!! Crazy hair from the bath! :) a very common occurrence at our house)
This doll is for Carli when she gets old enough to play with it. Keira will share her others too, but this will be just hers, like Keira has one that is just hers.
This outfit is one that Carli wore and I loved it. It was a onesie, but this was the last outfit I did, and I got lazy. the bottom part looked complicated and I didn't have patience. Plus, I was afraid The girls would wake up any moment.
If any of you are scared to do these yourselves, don't be. just wing it like I did. :) they turn out just fine! the instructions from the tutorials are only ONE way of doing things too. I changed it up a little on a few and ended up taking them all apart like the zippered pj's. I did them more like the onesie tutorial and took the sleeves off. I think they turned out darling, but now I think i'm all doll clothes-ed out for a while. it's a lot of tedious stuff.
Another thing I did for the first time today was "shrink a T-shirt." :) My brother in law gave me a shirt when we saw them last. It was an XL and I usually wear a M in mens t-shirts. So, I took one of my favorite fitting shirts and laid it on top. I ended up cutting the sleeves off and fitting them like the other shirt and traced the outline of the shirt that fits onto the big shirt. I pinned it all over, sewed it up with a knit stitch and hemmed the bottom. I pinned the sleeves in place and stitched them in place too. it's like you never knew it was a different shirt!!! :) this one does fit a little tighter though, I think it's different thickness shirt. Oh well! :)
