One Little Indian Girl

This week is Homecoming here in our small town. So, the school is having themes each day. Today was Cowboy and Indian Day. So, I dressed my daughter as an Indian and sent her to school. If you wait to the last minute to come up with something don't sweat it. A costume can sometimes be pulled off in a matter of minutes. I had an XL brown shirt that I was planning on using to make an altered shirt. I just didn't know what I was going to do to with it.

We had a Pochahontas outfit that I had made her last year that still fit, but I didn't think the school would like it too much if I sent A in it because it is just a one shoulder dress. So, I had to come up with something else. I took the brown shirt and put it on her to see how much I needed to take it in. I turned it wrong side out to sew it. This was a mistake because I was going to make fringe out of the left over fabric on the outer edges. When I turned it back the right way, all my fringe fabric was on the inside. So rather than use the seem ripper and take out what I just sewed, I just cut the tag off the back. I cut off the bottom of the t-shirt and the original sleeves so unless you really get to looking you never would know that it's on wrong. Also, the handband is part of the original sleeve. I just cut part of it off, and it's already sewed in a loop so you don't have to sew it of tie it in any way.

Hope this gives you a quick idea for a costume. It would be perfect for Halloween since it's just around the corner.

Pink Pansy Shirt

This shirt is one of the many things I made for Christmas presents. This is the last shirt I did. I made this for my sister-in-law. I decided to get a shirt that was a pink shade because I had seen her wear pink stuff before.



I bought two shirts from Joann's at their Veteran's Day Sale. I was trying to make my flowers like the ones in this post from Make It and Love It, but I never could get my flowers to turn out the way she did so I just did my own thing.





Deets~ I cut lots and lots of circles again with this one. I cute some that were about 3 inches in diameter and some that were about 2 inches in diameter. I then sewed about 5 of them together sewing across the diagonal three times. It looked liked a pizza with six slices. I then cut between all the layers except the last one to make it look like a flower. I sewed on three beads in the center which I purchased at Wal-Mart. I cut the collar off the main shirt and gave it more of a dropped neckline, and then I tacked the flowers onto the shirt by the back circle that I didn't cut through. I had some extra flowers left over so I made some hairclips to go with the shirt. I didn't take any pictures of the hairclips, though.

Flower Power Shirt

I worked on several projects for Christmas. This is one of two shirts that I will be sharing. I really wanted to make more homemade gifts this year, and I would say I did pretty good. I ended up making five homemade presents to give to family. I will get to them all within the next couple of weeks. This first one was for my mom. She likes the color blue so that is what I started out with. She really doesn't like shirts that have too much stuff on them so I took that into consideration.



I purchased two shirts the same color and size from Joann's when they were having a sale.



Deets~ First, I cut out lots and lots of little circles. I used the top of a small candle as my template. Then, I folded a few circles in half and cut some knicks out of the circles to make them look more like flowers. I then folded each flower in half and then half again and sewed them in bunches of four. Before I sewed them on the main shirt, I cut the collar of it to give it a little bit more of a dipped neck. I then decided how I was going to lay them on the shirt. I hand sewed each flower on, and then it was finished.