Popsicle Shirt

Last week we were given a challenge by the Wayward Girls' Crafts.  They give us one word and see what we come up with.  The word they gave us was: Popsicle.    They also did a spotlight on their blog that you can go and check out here.  

So I thought and thought about what kind of craft I could make that went along with the theme.  We made all kinds of pudding pops.  My husband's favorite was banana.  My daughter loved the chocolate.  And my boys loved the vanilla.  But I didn't want to go with the traditional "popsicle".  So I decided to make a shirt.

I didn't have time to go to the store to pick up a shirt and taking all my kids with me didn't sound like a fun trip, so I decided to sew one.  I picked up some grey jersey fabric on clearance months ago.  I knew that it would come in handy one day...and this was that day!

I took one of my daughter's shirts that fit her good and used it as a pattern.

I cut out a front (the one on the right) and a back (the one on the left.

This fabric is nice because it won't fray, which means that I didn't have to hem the edges.  I just sewed along the sides of the shirt and the shoulders.  I added a ruffled strips for sleeves. The neckline and bottom of the shirt are raw.  You can hem them if you so desire.  (This fabric can be challenging to sew, so just take it slow and you will do fine.)

Once I sewed the shirt, I made sure that it fit and then moved onto the fun stuff!

I had a sheet of hot pink with white polka dots iron on transfer material.  I cut out a popsicle shape, but before I ironed it on, I used a brown ribbon for the popsicle stick.  I sewed the ribbon on and then ironed on the popsicle part.  After it was cool, I sewed around the popsicle part.  (You don't have to sew the iron on transfer, but I liked the way it looks with stitching around it.)

I used my Silhouette to cut out the "So Sweet" part.  I found the saying in the Silhouette store.  I had dark pink heat transfer material that I used for the words. ** Make sure you mirror the image you want to have cut.  Before you iron it onto the shirt, put a thin piece of fabric over the part you are ironing. **

My daughter absolutely loves her Popsicle shirt and I love the price!

PINK Rosette Birthday Cake

 

Last week my little girl had her 2nd birthday.  She wanted PINK everything!  Pink birthday cake, pink ice cream, pink balloon, pink boots, pink dress, etc...  Pink is definitely her favorite color right now!  So, we made her a pink rosette birthday cake.  It was super easy to do!

You just frost the entire cake with a thin layer of frosting.  Then, I just used a star cake tip and went in circles with the frosting.  When you are done with the circle you just fill in the empty space with the star tip.

I used Cream Cheese Frosting that I made- Here is the recipe...

CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Ingredients

1 package Cream Cheese (softened)

1 cube butter (softened)

1 tsp. vanilla

Powdered sugar

Preparation

Mix together the  cream cheese and butter.  Slowly add the powdered sugar until you reach the desired consistency.  Add the vanilla.

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Double Bubble Tulle Skirt

 My daughter loves to wears skirts!  She wears a skirt everyday, even if it is over her jeans!  It's just a part of her daily clothing requirements.  She loves to dance and twirl all day! So I decided to make her a "puffy" skirt, or most commonly called a bubble skirt.  I call this my Double Bubble Tulle Skirt because both the skirt and the tulle is "bubbled".

Before I begin the tutorial I wanted to thank you to everyone who voted for my "Repurpose: Adult Camisole into Girls Petal Shirt".  I made it to the third round of So You Think You Can Sew!  Thank you to everyone who voted for me!

 

 Here are the instructions:

I started out with some fabric I bought at a yard sale.

  I bought lots of fabric at yard sales a few years ago when I lived in Arizona.  See here and here for more projects I sewed with fabric from yard sales.

I cut 18 inches wide of fabric.  I just used the length of the fabric.  

I needed a lining.  So I used an old black slip that I had that didn't fit anymore.  (It's one of those items that never quite fit the same after having kids.)  

I sewed the material onto the slip.  The material was wider than the slip, so I pleated the fabric about every inch so it would fit.  And put right sides together.  This is what it looked like:

On the other side of the fabric, I turned it over 3 inches for the waist.

I sewed two lines for the elastic.  I wanted a little gather at the top.  And I left a half inch at the bottom.  I will show you why later.  Don't forget to leave space to put your elastic in.

After I put the elastic it, I evened out the gathers.  Now I have had clothing where the elastic turns around in the casing.  It drives me crazy!  So I stretch out the elastic after putting it in the skirt and I sew right down the middle of it so it won't flip over.  If you look closely, you can see the stitches I made. Now that elastic is staying put!  :)

So this is what the skirt looks like with the slip pulled out. 

Now is the time to cut the slip (or lining) part down.  I cut the slip 4 inches from the hem I made.

Remember when I said that you would need that half an inch from the bottom of your elastic?  Well, this is when you need it.  Pull the lining up to the hem and pin it together.  Do the best you can and make sure it is as even as you can get it.  And then sew it together.  This is probably the hardest part of the skirt.

This is what the skirt looks like after being sewed. 

 

After I got to this point, I decided that I wanted something more to the skirt. I decided to "bubble" some black tulle to put underneath the skirt. I didn't take any pictures of this part, but I will explain what I did.  I cut 10 inch strips of tulle.  I used about 3 long strips.  I folded them in half long ways and gathered it.  This made the "bubble".  I cut 4 inches off of the slip that I used for the skirt.  I sewed the tulle to that part of the slip.  I sewed on two layers of gathered tulle.  Then I took my slip of tulle and sewed it onto that half inch of material below the elastic.  

 She loves to dance and play in her new skirt!

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Repurpose: Adult Cami into Girls Petal Shirt

Here is my sweet little daughter.  Can you tell she likes to dress up?  Recently she wanted a pink shirt.  Her favorite color is pink.  I didn't have any pink material, but I did have a pink cami that I didn't wear any more, so I decided to make it into a shirt for her.

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Here are the instructions:

I hope that they are easy enough to understand.  I forgot to take pictures of a few of the steps.

I took a shirt that she had and used it to cut out the right size.  I positioned it on the bottom corner of the cami.  And I only cut one side.  I wanted to use the other side as a seam that I didn't have to sew.

Here is what the shirt looked like after I cut it to her size. I sewed the side edges and top edges together, right sides together.

I used the neck line of the cami to make the sleeves, the front neckline for one sleeve and the back neckline for another sleeve. 

I sewed the sleeve onto the shirt.  Instead of gathering the sleeve, I gathered the neckline of the shirt and hand sewed it.  It only took a few minutes.

Now this is the remaining part of the shirt that I had lying around. I used this part for two different purposes: the ruffle on the bottom of the shirt and the petals on the collar.

I cut the fabric into circles.  They don't have to be exactly, just roughly the same shape.

The I folded the circles twice.  Making this shape:

Then I pinned the "petals" onto the front part of the collar and sewed them on.

As you can see, I left the collar of the shirt unhemmed.  I didn't see a reason to hem it because it won't fray at all.

Now I used the original hem that the cami had for the shirt, but I wanted the shirt to look a little bit more dainty, so I decided to add a ruffle at the bottom. I used the rest of the shirt to cut about a 2 inch wide piece (I forgot to measure how long it was, sorry) and I sewed it onto the bottom of the shirt.  I didn't gather the ruffle.  I stretched the original shirt hem as I sewed on the ruffle part and this is the look that it created!

 

She loves her new shirt!  And the best part is, it didn't cost me a dime!

It's been chilly here lately, so she wears a little cardigan with it.

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Rose Ruffle Throw Pillow Cover

 I have a few pillows on my couch that needed some help.  So I picked up some fabric at a yard sale, a zipper at Hobby Lobby and decided to make a throw pillow cover.  The pillow I used inside the cover was a yellow pillow that I bought at Kohl's on clearance for $1.50. I'm loving the new look!

 Here is the fabric that I bought.  It cost me 25 cents!  Such a smokin' deal!

My fabric is 60 inches long.  I cut 2 strips 3 inches wide and sewed them together, so I had one really long strip of fabric.  

I sewed both edges.  One edge I folded over and I did a hem stitch on the other edge.

On the side I used the hem stitch, I used my gathering foot and made a beautiful ruffle.  I love my gathering foot!  It makes ruffles so easy! Here is a link to a generic gathering foot, similar to the one I have.

Distinctive Shirring Gathering Sewing Machine Presser Foot - Fits All Low Shank Singer, Brother, Babylock, Viking (Husky Series), Euro-Pro, Janome, Kenmore, White, Juki, Bernina (Bernette Series), New Home, Necchi, Elna and More!

 

The pillow I used is about 16 inches by 16 inches.  I cut out 2 pieces of fabric 17 inches squared.  Then I sewed the ruffle onto one of the square pieces of fabric in a circular fashion.

I wanted to have piping go around the edges of the pillow.  I went to the store and looked at various ways to do this, but I didn't want to spend any extra money. This is suppose to be a really cheep project!  So I figured that I could find something at home instead.  

This is what I came up with.  I found some rope that my husband had and I cut some fabric 2 inches wide.  I sewed the fabric over the rope and was done!  Easy enough!  And didn't cost me any extra money.

I sewed the piping onto the side that I sewed the ruffle, right sides together.

I cut the edges on each corner so they would fold better.

I wanted to be able to take this cover off easily, but I didn't want everyone to be able to see the zipper.  So I used an invisible zipper.  I love these zippers because once they are zipped up, it looks like a hem and not a zipper.  The best way to install one is to follow the instructions in the packaging.  Then sew the front to the back and you are done!

 

I didn't really like how far the rose fabric stuck out on the pillow.  It still looked good, but I wanted to have it look a little different.  So I took the pillow out and started with the inside of the rose and stitched the edge of the flower down to the pillow.  I did this every 2 or 3 inches all the way around the rose, leaving the last layer alone.

I loved the way it turned out!  The pillow looks so much better than it did before and only cost me a few dollars!

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