Aubs Baseball Ruffle Shirt

It's hard to take pictures of a little toddler man she does not stop moving.

Step 1: Measure your little sweetheart you will need her bust (right under her armpits) length (armpits to where you want the shirt to end) and arm strap length (take a tank top or swimming suit measure those straps)

Step 2: Cut out a rectangle with the measurements from her bust and length adding 2 inches to bust for hemming and wiggle room, hint I made mine go out at the bottom so it looks more like a trapezoid. Aubs measurements were 21x12.

Step 3: take a straight ruler and a piece of chalk draw straight lines horizontally across the bodice piece every 2 inches. This will make your ruffles straight.

Step 4: now cutting out the ruffles I cut my ruffles 3 inches by WOF I would recommend 3 1/2 to make sure your ruffles cover eachother enough. I have 7 ruffles on Aubs shirt.

Step 5: making the ruffles, I serged all the way around each ruffle then hemmed the 2 short sides and one long side, the other long side I did a gathering stitch 1/4 seam, (Biggest stitch with the tension between 0 and 1). leave enough thread to be able to pull.

Step 6: Pin Pin Pin take the first ruffle pin to the very bottom of the trapezoid on each side then pulling the bobbin thread gathering the remaining fabric pin it in several places. Top stitch onto bodice with 1/2 seam. Repeat with remaining ruffles.


Step 7: Now take the bodice piece putting right sides together serge up the back 3/4 of the way leaving a 1/4 open to fold over top stitch down add a button and some elastic to get over their head.

Step 8: Using the bust measurement again cut a strip of fabric 3 inches by bust measurement. fold in half hotdog iron unfold fold each side into the middle iron fold in half once again reiron. pin along top this will cover the top ruffle rough edges. Top stitch as close to edge as possible.

Step 9: Using the arm strap measurements cut 2 straps 3 by arm strap measurement. follow the ironing steps above. Now instead of pinning down sew a 1/4 and 1/8 on both sides of the straps making 4 lines down each of the straps. Measure the tank or suit to where the straps should be and zig zag them down.

Step 10: Try it on your little sweetie and take lots of pictures.

I got the idea from http://sewingin-nomansland.blogspot.com/2011/05/color-my-summer-baby-in-red.html

 I had problems with the measurements from her tutorial so I created my own.

I used a little less than a yard of fabric for this project.

Diaper Bag

I love this bag!! It is called Petunia and it is from izzy & ivy designs, I bought my pattern at Ace but they do have a blog the address is www.izzynivydesigns@blogspot.com.

This bag is fairly simple just very time consuming. I made these 2 over the course of 1 1/2 days, taking into account my beautiful daughter who loves to help me sew, and her feeding times! All in all it was totally worth it.

The camo one is for my cousin who has a sweet little boy that I babysit on occasion, the other one is for me!! My first attempt has been washed a couple of times and is beginning to wear, you can also tell that it was my first attempt in that I skipped steps to make the process faster in the end it hurt the bag :(

Enjoy! If you live close to me your more than welcome to borrow the pattern feel free to ask :)