The Third Prayer

A couple weeks back someone from my local La Leche League was talking about Christmas gifts on our message board.  She left tons and tons of examples of gifts to make so you could save money.  One of her links was for the website Make It and Love It and it had to do with a caulk board or something.  Whatever it was, I wasn’t interested in making it but oh my word, I am in love with that website now and even added her button to the side bar of my blog.

Let me tell you, as a new sewer, her website is my heaven right now.  I curse her craftiness and then call my mom to tell her what she did.  And of course, I want to make it too.  Oh she is so crafty so darn crafty.

So here is what I have been working on the past couple weeks.

I’ve had this red top for years and love it but as you can see it is boring.  So I followed the instructions on her website, cut out some hearts and folded them over and made this

Okay that is a completely bad view and the shirt looks different in person but I was having a hard time taking the picture.  When Frank took the picture I had a weird look on my face and I didn’t want to embarrass myself by publishing it!  When Frank saw the shirt he said, “it looks like you are wearing a corsage.”  Funny thing is, it is called a corsage shirt.  Love it!

I went to the local Goodwill and found this white sweater that fit me perfect. 

I paid only $1.50 for the sweater, followed the instructions from her website and made this

A sweater dress for my baby girl!  I must say, I am most proud of this dress and of everything I have ever sewed this is my favorite.  The length was absolutely perfect so I didn’t have to cut the bottom.  I just trimmed the sides to fit her body, brought the shoulders in a bit so the neck wasn’t so big and then cut half of the sleeves off.  Next I cut out some satin and made her little flowers for the top and added a button to the middle.  Mary Rene is wearing the dress on Saturday for our family Thanksgiving dinner so I’ll take better pictures then.

This week, Make It and Love It started using scarves to make baby hats, girl skirts and….baby leggin’s.  You all know how I love my baby leggin’s and Mary Rene wears them around the house all the time.  The only problem is I don’t have any scarves that I was willing to part from.  So yesterday I went to the Goodwill and saw this sweater

and instantly knew it would make awesome baby leggin’s.  The baby leggin’s I bought Mary Rene were $12 and this sweater was only $3.  What a steal.  I loved the sweater and it was perfectly soft and I easily could have kept it for myself. 

During Mary Rene’s nap yesterday, I took her purple baby leggin’s and measured them against the sweater and cut out the amount I needed.

I have so much material left that I am going to make her a skirt and then maybe use some for baby blocks.  Talk about making your $3 stretch even further!

I was able to cut out the material and sew the baby leggin’s all in a matter of 20 minutes.  And here is the finished product

 

Love it! 

I have three more of these projects that I am currently working on and can easily see many more to add to the list.  I got the sewing bug, can you tell?

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