The Baby Project (2) - Reversible Baby Blanket

As-salam.

Hi, frens. How's Ramadhan so far? Mine is good.  I thought I'd be tired and restless now that I'm in my 3rd trimester. Alhamdulillah I can get through the day quite well. 

I purposely made this blanket for the arrival of baby #2 in the hospital. I want to have more pictures of my newborn compared to Raisya. I want to have a picture of my baby snuggled in the softness of Momma's made blanket. Looking back,I wish I would have taken more pictures of Raisya when she was a little baby. I feel sad by just flipping through Raisya's picture folder in my computer.  At that time, I only have old Samsung  phone and inexpensive Olympus point and shoot camera. Sadly we lent the camera to my brother-in-law.  I only left with my camera phone during my confinement. You know that taking pictures from old 4MP or maybe 6MP camera phone wasn't exciting. That's what I felt.

For the reversible blanket, I just cut 30 inch x 30 inch square of flannel and cotton and stitched them together. When you have thousands of label like mine, you just stitched  the label on both sides of the fabric. LOL. 

Fabric : Aqua Sweet Hearts from Aqua and Dot Collection by Michael Miller

Flannel : Unknown

The Baby Project (1) - Top Knot Hat

I'm about 28 weeks pregnant with my second baby which means I'm in my 3rd trimester. I have another 12 weeks if I make it to the full term. 


I haven't done anything yet for baby #2. Sniff, sniff. Not that I'm not excited, but the to-do list and shopping list are significantly shorter for baby #2. If you understand what I mean. =)

I did purchased a few onesies on sale at Mothercare and also cloth diapers for baby #2. Those were the only things I bought so far.  I am slowly increasing my CD stash since I was thinking of cloth diapering baby #2.  CD? Interesting, no? I do hope I can share with you my cloth diaper stories once I started the journey soon.


Back to the post title - The Baby Project.  The Baby Project is to document every single things I make for baby #2. I want to stress the word "make" here my friends. I will document things I make only, not buy, not purchase. I have a not-so-long to-do lists for The Baby Project which I hope I can finish before the baby arrives. So bear with me.

I begin with a little baby steps.I'm making top knot hat just now. Tutorial can be found HERE. I have no real model to justify the cute hat that I'm making. Teddy bear is only I have. 

Here I used knit fabric from RM10 shirt I found at KL Sentral. Ignore the wobbly zigzag stitching. I promise I'll do better for the next hat. But its still cute isn't it? Considering I can make 2 hats out of RM10 shirt.  It is a plus point for me since I still have extra remnant that can be turn into anything cute other than hat. For plain white top knot like this, I bet it priced at RM29.90 at Mothercare. 

Stay tuned for The Baby Project (2). Till then.

Romper Dress - the first attempt

My first attempt at making my own romper pattern.  I spent a good half day to figure out the pattern and sizing. Since the request to make this romper was for 6-9 months old baby, I used Raisya's old clothes as reference.

When you left sewing for almost half a year, it's quiet challenging to start all over again.  I feel lost. I even had to cut the pattern on a remnant fabric and sewed the pattern pieces together to make sure it's the right sizing I was looking for (which is based on my assumption only). Alhamdulillah, it turned out ok. I proceeded with the real fabric and it turned out to be like this.

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Not bad, eh? But I still wasn't sure with the fit until I put the romper on my almost 1 yr old baby cousin. It fit her well. What a relief! 1 thing need to change is the snap button. I used snap fasteners kit from Daiso.  My fingers hurt, I tell ya! If only I had a snap press....

 Pre-washed fabric : Central Park by Kate Spain for Moda Fabrics. 

By the way, to all my friends and family, "Selamat Menyambut Ramadhan Al-Mubarak". Semoga Ramadhan kali ini membawa seribu keberkatan dan lebih baik dari Ramadhan sebelumnya.

T-Shirt Ruffle Dress

T-shirt ruffle dress for my friend's, Tyne only daughter. Tyne didn't ask for a specific dress to be made for her daughter,Yaya.  It just that I felt guilty to Tyne as she had sent me 4 lovely fabrics to be made into a jumpsuit before she even had  Yaya. And that was nearly half a year ago. My oh my. Sorry, Tyne! Surely, there's a reason for that =).

The bodice was made using RM5 XL t-shirt that I bought at Carrefour, Kota Damansara when I was still staying there. If anyone of you knows where to buy cheap shirt fabric, do let me know ya!

The ruffle skirt was made using pre-ruffles knit fabric I bought at Kamdar. I heart Kamdar for a cheap, rare fabric that couldn't be found anywhere else. 

My sweet label must be visible on the outside. 

The sizing might be a little bit big for Yaya. I underestimate the stretchiness of shirt fabric as  I attached the bodice and the gathered bottom. But Tyne did say that her daughter is a bit chunky compared to her two brothers. I think Yaya could fit into this dress in no time.

 So what do I do with balance of ruffles knit fabric?  Ehmm.. let me reserve that one later eh?

Tunic Dress

Assalamualaikum and Salam Maulidur Rasul.

Just a quick post on Tunic Dress. Enjoy.

 

Fabric : Floral in Gray by Riley Blake

Tights : Sox World

Above: Smiling Face

Below: "Muka Mengada"

Bila baju sudah muat

Everyone loves free pattern right! Who doesn't? At least for someone who share the same interest with me.


I made the dress because I wanted to try the free pattern by Rae of Made By Rae.

It was two years ago. Times flies and now the Itty Bitty Dress fit Raisya perfectly. How I wish I used pretty fabrics instead.

Never mind. That would be the reason to use up my fabric stash I've accumulated.

Sample Tunic Dress

I'm on my block leave starting 19-23 December. I'm really looking forward for a long leave like this to catch up with my overdue sewing projects. But, that's not the case. Too many family matters to attend to. 


On Monday, I managed to sew one sample tunic dress for Raisya. 

I called it sample dress because I sew it using remnant fabric that I had (the same fabric as Arianna Dress that I posted a while ago).


I wanted to make sure that the sizing is correct before I can cut my cute (and expensive) stash of fabrics. I just need to tweak a little bit on the neck, button back closure and embellishment on the front dress. The rest is just perfect.

Sample dress in action. Loving our shoes. :)

Arianna Dress

Presenting to you, Arianna Dress. A simple dress with flutter sleeves, buttons closure at the back of the dress and a simple pocket. It can be worn with or without legging. Cute for a little girl or even you! .)

<3 <3 <3

Beach Robe Pattern from MADE

It's been forever since I said I wanted to show you a Beach Robe that I made using Dana's latest pattern.


I did share these pictures on my personal Facebook shortly after I finished sewing. These pictures were taken using my camera phone. I thought it were crappy to use for this blog. I wanted to share a professionally taken photo to show off my hard work. What I mean by professional photo here is a photo taken by ME using a real camera on automatic mode not a camera phone. Slap me in the face right now! Haha....


But guess what?! I didn't get a chance to take the photo until my precious camera is broken recently (teardrops on my face). So yeah.. Call me a procrastinator!


By the way, I hope you enjoy an edited terrible phone pictures (turned out quite good as compared to my "professional photo").

Psst: I love the colour of the robe. It's coral!

Wide Waistband Skirt Dress

As usual, I would bring to you an outdated, cheated post on my sewing project. Outdated because this skirt dress is done in September. Cheated because I didn't have any recent sewing updates to post except this one.

Raisya had 1 Guess skirt dress that was a gift from my BFF, Mary (not a real name =p).


She clearly had outgrown that skirt. 

So I thought of making a new one for Raisya in a less complicated version. It is actually sleeveless top (minus the collar) which sewn together with wide elastic waistband skirt - the most interesting part of the dress.  


Seen here are the pictures of Raisya wearing the dress with a crop cardigan from Seed since we were in Genting when the pictures were taken. 

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I listed here my source of materials for making this dress:

• Top - shirt fabric from People Textile. It's expensive. Please opt for a thrifted shirt if you thought of making one.
• Skirt - striped fabric from Isetan Textile (not Isetan in KLCC, ya friends!)  
• 2-inch Wide Elastic Waistband - sewing supplies shop next to Hong Leong Bank in Petaling Street.

Till then, see ya!

Peasant Dress Continues

Peasant dress story is not over yet. I wanted to share with you the lovely back view of the dress. Front view as in this post did not do justice to the sweet dress. The dress has sash that makes it sweeter. And it looks so much more sweeter on my loved ones.

Sweet Peasant Dress

When I said I sew, I sew and I sew for the past two months, it means that I really sew something. I've been sewing either for my daughter or for my friends. But, none for me (not even my baju raya). 


My friend, Akma (we used to send our daughter to the same babysitter) asked me if I could sew a birthday dress for her daughter. She even had a picture  of what she wanted. Her major requirement: a dress with sleeves.


Initially, I'm thinking of dress with cap sleeves. Like this one.


Left: My version of cap sleeves
Right: Flutter sleeves found HERE

For me, I prefer girl dress without sleeves. However, to meet Akma's requirement, I think a peasant dress is the best. Since it's cover the underside of the arm. 


So, how cute is this dress? I used Dena Designs Kumari Garden for the bodies and Erin Mcmorris Wildwood for the sleeves. I think the color combination is just right. What do you think? 

Psst: Please feel free to comment. I need comment to improve.

Long overdue post about my first Pinafore Dress

I've been meaning to post about my very first pinafore dress since January.  I already posted about my second version of pinafore dress here. This dress was actually made using Simplicity pattern that I bought somewhere in December. My very first experience using store-bought pattern and yep, it was easy peasy! 

The picture was taken during Izz's (my friend's son) 2nd birthday party at KFC, Seksyen 13, S.A. Sorry for the poor quality pictures anyway.  It was taken using my camera phone only.

I don't have a nice full picture of Raisya wearing this dress instead of this one. 

You know how a happy 21 months old little girl would react when having a blast at a birthday party, right? Whoaaa......

Not until she saw..... Chicky!!! hahahaha....

OK don't worry darling, Mama would not invite Chicky to your coming birthday party. It looks like it's time for Mama to start planning for your birthday party theme. Or maybe Mommy can help? Would you Mommy? *smile*