I know I have been really bad at documenting the process that takes place on my re-fashions. I am making an effort to do better starting with this post.
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I found this Kiss t-shirt at a Goodwill in Jax. I think it was $2, woman’s size small. I wanted to make it into something for a child, but not necessarily a girl. I thought about a hoodie, but the cotton is thin and there wouldn’t be enough of it to make one anyway. I suppose I could have done the easy thing and just made a smaller t-shirt, but I have a bunch of baby patterns I wanted to try out so I picked one. It ended up being New Look 6399.
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Right off the bat my intentions were to leave off the weird collars and appliques. I was going to make one of the sleeved versions, but when I started looking at the pattern pieces, something looked off. I cut the pieces anyway trusting the pattern, once I had them initially laid out for photographing it was obvious this wasn’t right. Even if I had allowed an inch for seams on all sides the 12m version would have ended up big enough to fit my 6 year old nephew! The thing is HUGE! I lined it all up and started some creative cutting of my own and ended up with a slightly more shapely and much more correctly sized pile of pieces (below). I improvised the collar, leg cuffs, snap attachment area and did away with the back buttons. The original has a button crotch and I wanted snaps.
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I started out by sewing the side seams together and then the shoulder seams. Second I stitched the under sleeve seam and attached the sleeves (made from the original sleeves, preserving the cuff). Net I reverse sewed (on three sides) a strip at the crotch and then folded it over and sewed along the top. I repeated it on the opposing crotch piece, this is to reinforce the snaps. Next I attached the legs, which were pieces I cut from the bottom hem of the t-shirt. Making a small fold at the beginning and the end (inward) and sewing it down into place. I repeated this on the other leg. The last thing I did with the machine was to sew the collar into place around the neckline. I just used the original neck from the t-shirt which i shortened a little. The very last thing to be done was to sew on the snaps, which I did by hand. One on each leg edge and one in the center of the crotch.
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