things I make for Maddy: even more Maddypants!
But this time, I sewed them instead of knitting them. That’s right, I sewed!
My friend Kris came over yesterday to walk me through the process of sewing a pair of Rae’s Big Butt Baby Pants. Since my girl is a giant (no, seriously: she’s over 21 pounds and almost 30″ long at just over 6 months!), we made the 18 month size for her. This was my first time sewing since before I was pregnant with Maddy; I’d been taking part in a newbie quilting bee at that time and learning quite a bit, but then injured my back, and it healed just in time for the first trimester yuckiness to make me feel like not doing anything at all. So, I was a bit rusty on the sewing front. Good thing Kris is a great teacher!
The first seam I sewed was that crazy butt-gusset seam. Eeek! But I did ok. Isn’t it cute?
The main fabric is some Essex cotton-linen blend, and the print is a Kokka cotton-linen blend with robots and cars on it!
Here’s a picture of the less-exciting front side of the pants, for good measure:
And here they are, modeled by Miss Maddypants herself:
I had so much fun putting these together. I’m really excited about the prospect of being able to make clothes for my girl. I don’t like a lot of what’s out there in terms of baby clothes (especially when it comes to issues relating to gender), and these pants aren’t like anything I could buy for her, you know?
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The pants lookbeautiful! I’ve been wanting to make some for my own little girl. I, too, have issues with gender-specific clothing, ugh. I think you’ll have fun sewing for your girl, and you’ll also create some lovely keepsakes.
Thank you! I am really excited about being able to sew M some cute stuff using prints that don’t scream “frilly princess!!”. Of course, just wait – once she’s old enough to choose her own clothes, she’ll probably want nothing but frilly princess gear, just to spite me :)
-whitney
Awwww, those are adorable!
Aw, thanks! The robots are just so cute I can hardly stand it :)
-whitney
aw, hooray! you did a great job and those robots are super cute.
Thanks, C! I’m really proud of these – they’re definitely the most complicated thing I’ve ever sewn and they came out so nice! Here’s to more sewing!
-whitney
Love the non-gendered baby clothes. Such cool fabrics and colours
Thank you! I’m a big fan of non-gendered stuff for babies.
-whitney
Those are cute!
Those are awesome! We try to dress Kestrel in gender-neutral clothes and there are some days when I realize it would be so much easier if I could sew. Someday :).