SOME SEWING AND.... SOME KNITING

Last year I made a very simple skirt for Teresa that I failed to blog about. Now that I am thinking about it, this was the first skirt that I ever made for her. I normally do not like to see little girls with skirts when they still have that baby tummy. It may be just me but I think that when they are little, skirts never fit them properly. We are over that phase now, Teresa is almost 6 and her body is much more slim now. So, I am guessing I will be making a bunch of skirts from now on. She loves them and I think they are more practical to take for school that a dress. 

As I said, this is the most basic skirt you can imagine: two rectangles, rolled hem on the top hem, 10 rows of elastic for shirring and a bow. It took me no more than an hour to have it done and I find it more interesting that a simple skirt with elastic in the waistband.

As mentioned above, I did not use any pattern. The fabric is a flannel in grey and blue plaid and the bow is in corduroy. 

The sweatshirt is the one I made for New Year's Eve. You can see more details on the sweatshirt here.

And for the final look: a heartwarmer (isn't this an adorable name?):

I don't knit! I know how to, but knitting is just not my thing. Yet, my husband's aunt (my aunt), who is a marvelous knitter, came over from Portugal to spend Christmas with us here in the US and while she was here she made a few things for Teresa. I will be showing those precious things here. :-)     

So, her first project was this heartwarmer from Sweet KM that I fell in love with when the last Stylo Magazine was release. I simply adore this!

We bought a 100% merino wool from a local store for this project and I can tell you that this is the most soft and warm piece of knit that I ever laid my hands in. Heaven! :-) 

Hope you like it! :-)

KIDS CLOTHES WEEK - DAY 5

It's Kids Clothes Week!!! You probably know the rules by now: sew 1 hour a day for 7 days! This season, the theme (non mandatory) is "Recycle". Although I would love the opportunity to do some recycling again the truth is I don´t currently have any clothes that I could re-use. This is normally good - I love the fact that in our new house we only have the things that we actually need, nothing more nothing less - but in this case it would be real fun to make some refashion again. As such, this time I could not follow the theme. 

Anyway, although I have been able to sew around an hour each day I haven't been able to accomplish a lot. Also, my girl is sick, with a bug in her tummy, so I wasn't able to get her to try her new skirt and take pictures. Luckily I bought a dress form a week a go and it arrived just in time for me to show Teresa's new skirt. Here it is:

I did not use any pattern this time. I saw a similar skirt in a girl on Instagram and I though it was just too cute and easy to put together. Basically, it is a gathered skirt with a waistband with elastic in the back. 

In my opinion, the cutest details are the braces and the wood buttons.

I used a lightweight denim from Joann's. It is very soft... and that's it! Simple, easy and quick to sew. By the way the top is the Hemlock Top that I made a couple of months ago. You can check it here. In here I  love it! I am hoping Teresa loves it too.