June 2007 sewing

I sewed a lot of jammies and tank tops in June, so here's a bunch of them:

Surfboards jammies for a trade with another sewing mama. I made these for her son, and she made a striped & embroidered shirt for my Lucas.

Summer jammies for Lucas -

And tank tops for my boys -

Baseball matchies...

After making a comment this past week to my coworker that I was tired of making matchy stuff for the boys, what do I do but make matching tanks for Dillon's end-of-baseball-season pizza party yesterday. I let them pick the fabric, so it's their fault, lol. I really LOVE this pattern though! It's KS 3389, I think, pretty much just a tank, but with raglan shoulder insets. After making about 6 of them now (the others are waiting to have their threads clipped, will SNS soon), it occurs to me that I could have saved myself $8 by just using my other KS or Ottobre raglans and not making sleeves, but sometimes I just have to learn the hard way, I guess. At least I feel like I've gotten my money's worth out of the pattern now.


This was taken mere minutes before he fell off and hurt himself. YES, he has a helmet and does wear it, but claims he cannot drink water with it on, so it was on the ground for this picture.

Injured and overly-dramatic

Lucas (4.5y/o) fell off his bike yesterday afternoon, scraped up his left elbow really well, and screamed bloody murder for a good 25 minutes before he'd even let me LOOK at it. I only got the bandage on his 2" x 3" scrape by begging and bribing with M&Ms. When Dillon saw it, he said "Wow, Lucas, that looks like you need a sling", as Luke had been cradling his left arm like a sling would. I was inspired, and remembered Shea's SNS for her niece a week or two ago, so this morning I sewed this up for him. I think it turned out pretty cute, he's been wearing it all day (although I did tell him it would not be worn to school tomorrow, I feel silly with a kid in a sling, but with no cast), and is now laying in bed in it, and Dillon's asked several times for a sling of his own.

He looks like he's in a lot of pain, no?