My precious Adele started crawling one month ago. I had forgotten how messy the crawling phase is!! Wet Winter + baby who loves outside + dirt/leaves/moss/grass/mud = A LOT of washing and lots of stained clothes! I had the idea a while ago to make her some pants with feet built in that she could wear outside over her clothes. I also didn't want to spend much on pants that I knew were going to get absolutely trashed! So I decided to use an old cot mattress protector. I had one lying around that had a few holes in it so i decided to use it for this project.
Her pants turned out really well. I made LOTS of mistakes when making them. I will be making a second pair so will hopefully perfect the design on my second attempt. :) I did use a pattern for the shoe part. The pattern is from a shop on Etsy called
Twirly Bird Baby. I used some of her pants to work out the sizing for the rest of the pattern.
Ok...
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| I started with a mattress protector |
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| The pants! |
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| Precious Adele |
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| Dirty goodness!! :) |
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| Isn't she sweet?!?!? And no, I'm not referring to myself. |
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| Front of pants. When designing the pattern last night I forgot to add the crotch part so had to sew some in. FAIL!! :) |
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| foot section with elastic sewn in so that the shoe part stays on her foot. |
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| back |
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| I bought soling fabric from a shop on Etsy called Shoeology. It's water/heat/cold proof and has great grip for little people who are learning to walk. |
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| Hmmm... think i'm going to have to make a top also! That is a VERY dirty jumper. :) |
Ok, see you next time,
Kerryn
Love the pattern. Yes Adele is so sweet! x
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