sunday brunch for baby violet
more violets for violet!
in addition to the 2+2 blouse, i also made baby violet an oliver + s sunday brunch jacket. for the main fabric i used a navy canvas that i ordered from fabric depot in portland.
normally i don’t like to order fabric online, but there is a nice story here: a few months after our 2017 wedding i shared this picture of neela in her flower girl dress and tagged fabric depot, since i had gotten the fabric for all the flower girl dresses there. they liked it so much they sent me a gift card, which i used for this blue canvas.
(long time readers may recall i thought it was really important that my nieces each have a dress in a style that was best suited for them. nine year old nora was the director of flower supply chain, seven year old etta was the manager of floral logistics, five year old maya was the flower distribution associate, and last but not least two year old neela was the floral intern.)
anyways i made this jacket using the canvas as the main fabric and the liberty of london for the facings and seam binding. i couldn’t stomach the idea of messing up the perfect front with actual button holes, so i added hidden magnetic snaps on the inside. the outer buttons, which are covered in the same blue canvas, are just for show. because i’m really worried about kids ripping off buttons and putting them in their mouth, i made sure these were really secure by bracing them with four small mother of pearl buttons on the inside.
the sunday brunch jacket has such a special place in my heart. it was one of the first oliver + s patterns i ever made (see my amateur sewing skills here in 2012 and a better version here from 2015). it’s such a cute style and the seam binding provides such a great opportunity to showcase a fun fabric like the liberty of london. i am excited to make one for own daughter soon!
love,
aunt maggie
i’m rarely old fashioned in my opinions, but for some reason i feel very strongly that talia needs to have on bloomers, shorts, or leggings under skirts and dresses.
within an hour of finding out that talia was going to be a girl i went to my fabric stash and starting planning her first dress.
when a very good friend had a baby girl named violet, i knew whatever i made her had to be floral and purple.
after a decade of sewing for other people’s daughters i knew sewing for my own would be fun…but i had no idea how much fun.
once a year, usually when i’m traveling for the holidays, i take up knitting for a bit. i inevitably do a few projects before reverting to sewing as my medium of choice for creative expression.
but wait, there are more flower girl fabric leftovers!
i used was able to squeeze one more piece out of the lovely honeycomb fabric from fabric depot I used for the garden party dress and mini southport dress: an oliver + s butterfly top in the 12 - 18 month size.
baby clothing continues!
what to make for a baby girl whose dad is a big hunter? something out of the cotton + steel arrow print of course!
our friends recently had a baby girl, so i whipped up this little top for her to wear next summer.
another baby boy, another oliver + s sketchbook shirt.
unlike my previous renditions of this pattern (here, here, and here) i decided to make this one from a chambray (which I got from stonemountain & daughter on my birthday as mentioned here) for two reasons:
1. it’s this couple’s first baby and chambray is a gender neutral choice. you know just in case a girl comes along later.
2. the father of this baby wears a lot of chambray button down shirts, so now they can be twins.
quick post on something I whipped up for baby wesley!
one of the oldest fabrics in my stash is this whale laminated oilcloth I bought back in cambridge at gather here in 2012. having never sewn with oilcloth before I was looking for an easier pattern that would provide lots of instruction and up my odds of a successful result.
cue the little things to sew book from oliver + s.
about a year ago I got an invitation to a baby shower for the wife of victor's cousin. I RSVPed, put it on my calendar, and figured in the months to come I would have plenty of time to make something.
then I got distracted by wedding planning and realized 24 hours before the shower I didn't have anything. so i turned to my stash and a tried and true oliver + s pattern.
too much of a good thing? rubbish.
for the holidays victor asked me to put together a wish list of things his family could get me. one of the items i listed was three yards of this beautiful bee print from the cotton + steel mustang collection.
i'm nothing if not predictable.
a coworker recently had a baby boy. so guess what i made him?
my parents are huge hippies, i mean we belonged to a tofu co-op for a good part of the '90s. combined with the fact that they had my sister abby in the mid-70s one has to imagine they dressed her in some pretty funky stuff.
sort of like these goldenrod cords i recently made a friend's baby.
continuing my series of my favorite homemade gifts today with gifts for babies and new moms. (want to take revisit my past posts? you can find my favorite kid toys and accessories here, my favorite little girl apparel gifts here, and my favorite little boy apparel gifts can here.)
first off the obvious: who doesn't think of a onesie for a newborn gift? here is neela in her put a bird on it onesie from the lullaby layette pattern from oliver + s
one of my favorite gifts for new moms has become has become an infinity scarf for mom and a matching top for baby.
another baby boy another sketchbook shirt in plaid. i just can't help myself, this pattern is such a joy to sew and looks so adorable in tiny sizes. not to mention the baby lumberjack look really resonates with my demographic of friends.
as i said yesterday one of my sewing goals for 2016 (and the rest of 2015) is to sew more patterns i haven't made before, specifically the oliver + s patterns. specifically the oliver + s patterns.
today I am going to share the things I've sewn for this sweet girl.
when sammie told me she was having a girl last September I immediately got to work on my future niece's wardrobe, because as a fellow youngest sister I didn't want her to be left out.