Baby Shower Gifts for Jill

My friend Jill is getting ready to have baby girl #2.   She already has Miss A, who's about to turn 3 and in just a few short weeks she'll be welcoming baby girl.  My mom was in town visiting me on the weekend of the baby shower, so we put together some cute gifts for baby girl and a little surprise for Miss A.

I made baby girl some onesies that went with knit pants and made matching hairbows.

Daisy knit applique onesie with cute hat and bow.  I made the bow with an alligator clip so that it can also be worn without the hat. Check out a previous tutorial to learn the process of knit applique.  You can attach the applique to the shirt by machine stitching as the tutorial shows, or you can attach it by handsewing it with embroidery floss as I did on the daisy.

Reverse appliqe heart applique ones with leopard bow.  Check out a previous tutorial to learn about reverse applique.

Bow onesie and matching hairbow.  Check out a previous tutorial to learn how to make the bow onesie.

Knit applique flower onesie with crocheted lace accent.  To learn how to make the adorable matching hairbows, visit Deborah's hairbow tutorial.

Deborah made this precious bib with baby girl's first initial.

Deborah also made these adorable little matching dresses for the girls to wear this summer.  They were a big hit at the baby shower!

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Monsters Are For Girls TOO!

I've been trying to get caught up on baby gifts and I'm almost there. There were a crop of adorable baby girls born in November and December and I thought they needed some cute onesies and bows to get them started!

Miss Emery Rose got these cute little onesies and matching bows.  I found the knit pants at Target then whipped up some hairbows and made some onesies to match!

I know Emery is going to be a little monster if she acts anything like her momma, and I hope she does :)  That's right, monsters are for girls too, all they need is a little hairbow.

Emery's mom loves orange so I had to work that into her reverse applique heart onesie.

Miss Canyon got these cute little onesies and hairbows! I know that Canyon's mom appreciates a BIG hairbow, so I did my best!

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O...M...G!

I wish Chelsea could have been here this morning when I opened up the box she sent to find these adorable things...

I realize you've already seen the big Gingerbread Shirt, as Chelsea did a tutorial on that here.  Another close up to help you see all the amazing detail...that's so easy even you can do it!  And NO SEWING MACHINE necessary!  :-)

What Chelsea didn't show you was this UH-DORABLE onesie she made for Baby #3.  While there's not a tutorial on this specific shirt, there is a tutorial on the method she used.  Just check out the stencil painting method used in this post.

If I'm not mistaken, Heidi Sage has a coordinating outfit coming from Deborah...can't wait to see that!

...and we'd love to hear from you if you plan to make these adorable Gingerbread Shirts.

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Reverse Applique Gingerbread Shirt

A funny gingerbread man is the perfect Christmas t-shirt motif for the tough little man (or woman) in your life.  This is a shirt that I made for Clinton to wear this upcoming holiday season.  I haven't mailed it to him yet but he was excited about the picture that his mom showed him.  It's a fitting shirt because Clinton LOVES gingerbread cookies (or any cookies, for that matter) and he likes that it's silly.

For this project you will need:

1.a t-shirt ( I chose lime green; prewash and dry the shirt before starting)

2. brown fabric paint

3. 1/4 yard tan t-shirt knit fabric (prewash and dry before starting project)

4. red embroidery floss

5. red fabric paint

6. large sew-on googley eyes

7. freezer paper

8. 8" white ric-rac (small or medium size)

I started by drawing a gingerbread man with some bites missing on the dull side of freezer paper.

I cut out the center of the gingerbread man to make my stencil and ironed the shiny side of the freezer paper to the t-shirt.  I typically have my iron on high.

I painted my gingerbread man but didn't worry about painting all the way to the center as it will be cut out.

I took a rectangle of tan knit and pinned it behind the gingerbread man and pinned it in place. Make sure that the tiny rib lines on the knit are going the same directions as the tiny rib lines on the t-shirt.

Then, I sewed around the edge of the brown paint using the red embroidery floss.  This is a simple hand stitch that involves going up and down through the top layer of the t-shirt and the tan knit fabric. Make sure not to sew through the back layer of the shirt.

Then I trimmed the knit around the outside of the stitch line.  Since knit doesn't ravel there is no need to finish the edges of the tan fabric.

The gingerbread man all trimmed.

Then I turned the shirt to the right side and cut out the center of the gingerbread man.  I trimmed about 1/8" from the stitch line making sure to only cut through the top layer of the t-shirt.

The gingerbread man cut out.

I gave him some mismatched green and red buttons for decoration.

I then cut some pieces of white ric-rac for the arms and leg. I fray-checked the ends and sewed the pieces in place with red embroidery floss.

I painted a surprised, open-mouth expression on his face since he has been half eaten.

I hand-stitched around the mouth, added some big eyes to add to the surprised look, and it's complete.  You now have a cute Christmas t-shirt.

This is a fun, simple project for any skill level.  I hope you enjoy making it as much as I did!

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