Sewing for Boys

I just started sewing a year and a half ago and most of my projects have been for my girls but I wanted to make something special for my son for his 17th birthday. He is a huge sports fan, especially for our hometown teams, like his dad was.  I purchased fabrics from Joann Fabrics for each of his favorite teams, Washington Redskins, Washington Nationals, Washington Wizards, Washington Capitals and Maryland Terrapins. Luckily Sara over at Sew Sweetness had a great pattern that would allow me to use all 5 teams!

I used Sara’s motopouch pattern from her minikins set. I did have to increase the width of the top and bottom panels by 2 inches but it worked out perfect. I love how it turned out. My sons a typical teenager so he basically just said thanks but I’m sure he loved it.

I laminated the lining fabric using Pellon Vinyl Fuse so it will not get messy and can be wiped out!

I’d love to hear, how do you sew for the boys or men in your life?

Cute joggers and sweatshirt dress!

Back in November I visited a cute little fabric store about 40 minutes from my house. I picked up some adorable fleece lined sweatshirt fabric with great intentions and then it sat in my closet until now. I finally picked up some ribbing fabric and got up the nerve to try to sew it. I could not be more pleased with these two cute projects!  The fabric is Avalana sweat by Stof Fabrics.

For the joggers I didn’t use a pattern, just some pajama pants we already had as an outline. My daughter usually wears a uniform but had a dress down day a few weeks ago so she was SO excited to wear these to school.

I then wanted to make my other daughter something but she didn’t want to be matchy matchy with her sister. I found this adorable pattern on Tye Dye Diva’s and loved it. I will definitely use it again!

I hope you’ll stop by again tomorrow!