Sewing Some Shirts & Sniffling Some Snot

Gross!  Really, you're gonna talk about that on your blog?  Yes, I am because, well, it's my blog!  I've been tuning in to Living With Punks this week and last to participate in the Chloe & Mieko Sew Along project for Japan.  I've bought and pilfered my fabric, dug through my felt stash, hunted for some similarish buttons, and purchased two shiny white tees.  I've decided to make one shirt for a boy and one for a girl.  I've been very excited about it, but have yet to find the time to make it up the stairs to the sewing machine.  Now that the materials are washed and the pattern printed, I can't stop hacking long enough to be productive (coughing, not computers).  Bug hasn't been feeling great either, and by the time I get him to bed, I'm toast!  I just hope that I can stop blowing my nose and covering my cough long enough to get a couple of stitches in.  I only have until Saturday to get the shirts stitched and linked up to Living With Punks!  Oy!  Here's to hoping for less snot and more stitches~

Argyle-ish Tee

I love all of the argyle shirts I'm seeing around.  Old Navy has several right now that are so dang cute, but they cost twelve bucks!  So, I said to myself, "Self, why buy a shirt for $12 when you can just snazz up one of bug's plain tees for free?"  And, so I did.  Here's what I did:

• raid bug's drawer for plain white tee
• scavenge through scrap bag for some kind of plaid and coordinating plain fabric
• drive to Joann's anyway to pick up some adorable fabric anyway ( I came home with 1/8 yd of cute blue plaid, a 9x12 piece of gray felt, and a 9x12 piece of light blue felt=$4)
• cut out several diamonds of all three fabrics and laid them out on the shirt in a pattern I liked
• attached diamonds to iron-on no-sew heat n bond, then cut heat n bond to size
• peeled paper off heat n bonded diamonds one at a time, so as not to screw up the pattern
• ironed all the diamonds on to the tee
• took a ruler and drew diagonal lines through the diamonds with a water soluble fabric pen
• used embroidery floss to stitch on lines
• pushed it over bug's head and took a thousand pictures

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