Wednesday, June 17, 2009

birthday shirt for Zak

I can't remember if I blogged about this before, but here's a picture of a shirt I made for my daughter's birthday in April. (If the bottom looks a little weird, it's because it is weird - it used to be a onesie, and I cut off the bottom somewhat "creatively" and serged it. Whatever - it's a birthday shirt!).



Vada's best buddy Zak (in Portland) is turning 3 next week, so I whipped up this shirt for him. I'm so sad we'll miss his party - it's a Little Einstein theme, and I know Vada would have had such a blast. But it's just too soon for another trip down, especially when we'll be down again next month for a wedding, and then again 3 weeks later for another wedding! Yay for summer weddings!



I like how it turned out, though if I had to do it over, I probably would have used the purple thread to outline the 3. And I would have remembered to use a stablizer right from the beginning instead of after a few inches of sewing! And I'm a cheapie - I just use old dryer sheets for stablizer. Works good enough for me!


Last time, I appliqued the 3 onto the background first, and then appliqued the background to the shirt. The first step didn't work so well, and I ended up with some slight puckering in places. This time I fused the 3 to the background and then fused the background to the shirt, and did all the applique at the same time. Much better!


2 comments:

  1. Your daughter's name is Vada? I was just talking about how much I like that name!!! It's so uncommon, but so cute! Do you mind sharing her middle name? Cute like that little birthday shirt! Good idea with that.

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  2. Both of those turned out so well - and what a great idea for three-year-olds!

    P.S. Vada is beautiful. I really like her expression in this photo.

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