Some Boys Clothes that I made

Remember from the last post that the clothes are wrinkled, still so. I took all the pictures the same day, but due to the time it takes to post, I couldn't get them all posted at once.


This bubble I made for Rance's first Christmas (2006). He had on white knee socks and white shoes.


I made this Jon-Jon for Anthony to wear Christmas of 2006. I put a long sleeve, white, turtle neck under it and he wore white knee socks with cute white toddler shoes.


I made Lee and Champ ties to match the little ones' outfits. Lee and Champ wore navy slacks and white shirts. Frank already had a shirt out of the almost exact same fabric (you had to look real close to see that it wasn't the same), he wore that shirt with navy slacks.

I remember I stayed up past one o'clock in the morning that year finishing the outfits. Christmas that year was on Sunday and I wanted all my boys to coordinate Christmas morning at church services. I had plans on making me a skirt to match, but that didn't happen. At least all my men matched. I will have to dig deep to see if I can find a picture of all of them together (I'm pretty sure I have one somewhere).

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Boys' Clothes

First of all let me start with an apology. These clothes are wrinkled. The boys have outgrown them and I have them put away (to hopefully hand down to my grandkids someday) and all I did was pull them out of the box, put them on a hanger and take a picture.

If I was really nice, I would have ironed them first, but I don't like to iron. No wait, I loathe ironing. I do iron on ocassion, when I absolutely have to, but very seldom. [I figure with carseats, seatbelts, wiggly boys, it's going to be wrinkled by the time we get there anyway so why bother.]


This is the very first outfit I made (if I can say I made it). I made it (putting it lightly) when I was pregnant with Lee over 10 years ago. It was to be his 'Coming Home from the Hospital' outfit. My cousin helped me make it (or should I say I helped her make it?). She did probably 75% of it because I had no idea what I was doing (I just did what she told me - when I could and when I couldn't she helped me out A LOT!). I'm proud of it non-the-less. It is made with heirloom fabric. It doesn't really have a pattern, she took the collar from one pattern she had, took the sleeves from another pattern, and the bubble (or body part) from another pattern and put them all together for me. (She is very talented.)


I love navy and white together (those were the colors of my wedding). So this is the first "hand smocking" that I did. I started out simple, with one color, a small size (I didn't want to get discouraged and quit before it was finished). This outfit was made from the pattern 'Corey's Bubble' from Maja's Heirlooms.


Here is a closeup of the hand smocking. Don't look too close (it was my first attempt). If you are good at hand smocking I'm sure that you will find lots of imperfections (but that's what makes it one of a kind and handmade). Besides, I'm sure they didn't even notice. The smocking plate was 'Weigh Anchor' by Angel Wears.

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Fruit Tea

A friend of mine gave me this recipe and it is one of the best tasting fruit teas that I have ever tasted. Thanks C.S.

Fruit Tea

2 1/2 C sugar
1 C orange juice
1/2 C lemon juice
4 Tbs. unsweet Nestea 100% tea (decaf)
water to make 1 gallon

Mix all ingredients, chill and serve over ice. Delicious

More Boy Stuff

This outfit is brick red and ecru gingham with an apple applique out of brick red pinwale corduroy. The shirt is ecru with the brick red corduroy for piping around the collar and the sleeves.


Yes, I made it reversible. This side is the brick red pinwale corduroy. I made this outfit for my niece's wedding. Anthony was a flower boy in the wedding. One of my nephews was also a flower boy in the wedding so I made Andrew the same outfit (I lined his with the red and ecru lining, but I didn't make his reversible). They wore the solid color at the wedding. The wedding was in October of 2007.


This is Morgan (another nephew - I have 11 nieces and nephews), Anthony (in his outfit) and Lee (my oldest). Morgan and Lee were going to walk down with Anthony and Andrew because we didn't know if they (the 2 little ones) would walk down by theirselves. Anthony was willing, but Andrew wasn't.


This is Anthony holding his brand new cousin, Danika, at the wedding. (Yes, he has this huge cut, bump, bruise on his forehead.)


This is Andrew (Danika's older brother) at the wedding in the outfit that I made.


This was an outfit that I made a couple of years ago. I am a big fan of Jon-Jons, I just think they are so cute. The sail boat that is appliqued on the front is from the same green and white gingham that it is lined with (actually I made it reversible - I love reversible, you get twice the use out of one outfit). The shirt has the same green and white gingham as the applique for the piping around the collar.

Both of the above outfits are 'Will' by Collars Etc., regular front, short jumpsuit.

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My Mother's Wisdom

"Always be on your best behavior, because if you do something you shouldn't I'll find out. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but I will find out."
~Judy Stanton

Note: She always did find out too.

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Boy Stuff

Amanda at How Far We've Come suggested that I show some boy things (when she commented on the pillowcase dress). [She and I both have 4 boys.]

What a great idea! Why hadn't I thought of that? To be honest that's the reason that I started sewing about 4 years ago. When I would go into the store, there would be 1 rack of boy's clothing for every 10 racks of girl's clothing. Why can't boys dress cute too (without looking sissy)? So I began to try to sew (my mother years ago had taught me the basics, but I never pursued it). A lot of what I have sewn is trial and error (teaching myself more than just the basics and trying to remember the basics because I forgot a lot over time).

The thing about boys is you can only sew for them a little while. (Once they are potty trained jon-jons are not real practical.) And they get to a point that they don't want to look cute (sissy or not).

I have looked up some pictures of things that I have made in the past for my boys (and I will be looking up more pictures) and posting on them to give you mother's of boys some ideas.

Here is one of my favorites...

Pale yellow shirts with robin's egg blue collar and blue buttons on the front (buttons down the back are yellow), and matching robin's egg blue shorts. (I used heirloom fabric for the shirt and shorts.)



Here's Rance in the outfit (it just looked like he was posing).



Here are all 4 of my boys ready for church Easter Sunday (3 years ago, Easter of 2007). I like us all to coordinate. Lee and Champ had on light blue shirts and navy shorts (Frank had on a light blue Polo shirt and Navy dress pants and I had a light blue dress on).

The pattern is Diaper Shirt and Shorts #110 by Creations by Michie'. I love her stuff. It seems even in the sewing business there are 10 times more patterns for girls than boys, but Creations by Michie' has a great selection of boys' patterns. And they are so cute and different (not so cookie cutter). Michie' Mooney's have the heirloom look (which is what I love). Her patterns are also very easy to read, follow and make. They come together nicely.

You can buy her patterns here at Creations by Michie' or at specialty stores (like The Children's Corner and others). If you have girls, she has nice patterns for girls too.

I hope that my future DIL's will allow my grandkids to wear these outfits. (I plan on passing them down.) I like the idea that I may have created an heirloom. I'm very sentimental.

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More Wisdom Tidbits from My Mother

"Never talk bad about someone's family, even if they are talking bad them."
~Judy Stanton

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