What a fabulous day! Friends. Sewing. Food.
I love the holidays and I especially love making clothes for my kids. I think part of me just loves them to look adorable and the other part of me secretly loves that extra attention they get from looking extra cute in something homemade! (even if it's not made by me).
So like I posted yesterday I had seen a post on a blog Paige & Brooke for the turkey shirts. Well my friend Amy & I knew it would be a little too girlie for our boys so she mentioned a pilgrim hat...she had no idea how serious I would take her. So I came home, google'd pilgrim hat clipart and we were ready to sew!
I invited some of my best girls over and we had a blast sewing and making these shirts for our girls. I even held one friend hostage at the end of the night to force her to finish this project...I did this by feeding her and her children! (Leaving her poor husband to fend for himself).
Please pardon my dust because this is my first tutorial by pics.
I first found the clipart....
Cut the hat into individual pieces, we decided we wanted to use 4 different fabrics for the top, buckle, belt around the hat and rim of the hat. Using Lite Steam-A-Seam 2 Double Stick Fusible Web, can be purchased at most craft stores, you trace these individual pieces onto the paper (do not peal the front or back off of the fusible web.
After this step is complete, trace the shapes out...still keeping both of the sheet of paper on top and bottom of the fusible web.
You then lightly iron the shape onto the BACK/WRONG side of the fabric. And of course I don't have a picture of this...sorry!
You will now have the fusible web ironed onto the back of the fabric and the paper still on one side. Cut the fabric for all 4 shapes. For the buckle we needed a little bling. Thanks to Caroline she decided to use the rick rack from the turkeys for the pilgrim hat.
Before you take the paper off of the back of the buckle shape fold it in half lengthwise and cut 2 small slits. (as shown by my beautiful model Caroline).
You can then thread a small piece of rick rack into the buckle. (Adorable idea)!
Now take the paper backing off of all of the pieces and place them how you want them on your shirt. Iron away! Make sure they are all stuck on. You can now pull out the sewing machine and do a few test runs on a scrap piece of fabric to make sure you find the stitch that you like, we tried a few before we found one we really liked.
Here is before and after the sewing. I seriously love how all of our shirts turned out. I am not 100% finished the the girls turkeys, I have to sew on the button eyes and a beak.
