Love in the home

I love my baby {jumper and pants}

06 Mar 2010 1 Comment

by loveinthehome in Baby, Crafts Tags: Recycling, refashioning

Well, I’m at 30 weeks and we don’t know if the baby is a boy or girl. So today I took a men’s dress shirt that I had bought at the thrift store for about 50 cents and turned it into a jumper for a girl and a pair of pants for a boy. Add a white onesie to each and we have a cute outfit. The jumper may not can be worn until the baby is a year old or so. But the pants can be worn home from the hospital if it is a boy.

I used this awesome tutorial by Blue Cricket Design. The only problem I had was that I don’t have a little girl here to measure the dress on. I used a dress that my great grandmother made for me to make a pattern. Mamaw Butler was an amazing seamstress and made me lots of little “doll” dresses as she called them. I was praying that her creative talent was in my blood while making my first dress.

Here is the dress my grandmother made:

Here is the dress I made:

It buttons up in the back:

Here are the pants:

I forgot to take pics of the shirt before I started cutting it up. However, it’s an Old Navy shirt exactly like this blue one that will make the next jumper.