Onesies From Old T Shirts

I wanted to show you guys what I am doing here lately and also wanted to start downloading my sewing things on here in case my daughter ever decides she wants to learn sewing. She has sewn some, but one day I wont be here to help teach her and wanted it to be here for her and for others I am trying to help learn.

 A friend of mine has a couple daughters that has gotten married and have had a baby each. She is now Grandma or Granna as they will call her. She's loving being a Granna. So I have started sewing baby clothes again and sure am enjoying it. Been a long time since I have sewn baby clothes.

I am still thrift store shopping as well and got the idea online to repurpose,restyle, recycle, or refashion, whatever you want to call it some old t shirts. One of the thrift stores I like has been having a fill a bag for a buck so I have gotten several bags of t shirts here lately and am making onesies with them. I can get two onesies from an x large t shirt and am practicing with them doing embroidery. I am trying to learn how to position my designs where they're suppose to be and lining them up. Getting a little better if my machine would stop messing up on me. :( See the blue colored one, yep machine messed up and top thread got all tangled in the bobbin and stretched the fabric and then when I went back to sewing the design was off. Funny thing is, it seems to happen on the VERY LAST thread I have to use every time. 

I was actually very well pleased with the white one. It turned out very well I thought. The white one I did with a t shirt that was a medium I believe it was and I wound up having to get my sleeves from another white t shirt. Actually I used the left overs from one I had made 2 onesies from. Had enough to do the sleeves for this one out of it. It was a turtleneck AND long sleeved one.

I also wanted to show you one of my finds from yesterday. We needed another little step stool and I thought this monkey one was so stinking cute.

This is the onesie close up of the embroidery.

This was a onesie I made for my niece, Hannah. She is having a girl and just found out a couple weeks back what it was going to be. This was one of the onesies I got from the other white t shirt. It was actually a Christmas one with a little embroidered Christmas tree on the neck (turtleneck) of it.

I found this square thing that had this monkey design on it awhile back and was going to refashion it some how. Then I got the idea to do a bib with it. This ones for a friend of mines little boy, Joseph. I think this thing must have been made for hanging on the wall. ??? Not really sure what it was used for. I first thought it was a pot holder of sorts, but it had poly fil in it. You can't use that for a pot holder! Talk about getting burnt!

Now for the video where I show just where I place the pattern for this onesie to get two out of an x large t shirt.
Two Onesies from X Large T Shirt


Hope you all enjoy these ideas I have found online. I found the patterns for the bib as well as the burp clothes I am making and the onesie online for free downloads PDF files.

Rose