Tao Of Craft

KWCC FAll 2012

Kids Clothes Week Challenge... Day 1

I Recycled a pink adult T shirt into a cute ruffle T shirt. I have never created a T shirt before.. it was so much fun when it turned out. In fact I have a tutorial with a pattern coming soon!

Kids Clothes Week Challenge 2012

I lOVE Elsie Marly's Bi- Annual Kids Clothes Week Challenge!

I needed a way to get my sewing mojo back... and this is just the thing to do it!

The challenge is to sew projects for kids one hour a day, each day for 7 days.

You could end up cranking out several pieces or just one... but either way it is a great excuse to SEW!

 

Treasure Skirt

I found my new favorite skirt pattern in the book

Little Girls Big Style by Mary Abreu.

This one is called the Treasure Skirt...It is super easy and super cute!

There are tons of patterns that i want to try in this book.  

But, I will have to save the rest for another day!

I loved it so much that I had to make 2....

 

 

Happy Sewing!

A girl and her Princess dress

My mom is the master of all things sewing... She has made endless beautiful princess dresses for my girls... Here is the latest dress... It was Alama's "Christmas Wish" to have a "beautiful yellow princess dress". My mom granted her wish! Now that we live on Maui we have to remember that the Post Office has different time frames...Her Christmas Dress showed up 6 weeks after my mom sent it to us! But it was sooo worth the wait!

 

Happiness!

Thanks Nana!

Spring Pants ~

Here is my 3rd installment for Kids Clothes Week Challenge!

Yes, I have made these pants many times before ... This pattern by Sandi Henderson has become a staple in our little girl wardrobe. They are quick and easy and so so cute!

A Simple Skirt....

Yes, its is a simple skirt and I have made a ton of them of them this weekend!

Dana over at MADE created the pattern and it is my new sewing obsession.

I would have made more, but I ran out of elastic...

I offer them as my 2nd installment for the Kids Clothes Week Challenge

 

Leila & Ben Dress Pattern ~ KCWC 2011

It has been an unbelievably busy week this week. I attended the birth of a friends baby, sewed costumes for my son's play, had 3 school meetings, took the kids to the pool twice, had a baby with a fever, but somehow I managed to whip up some clothes for the...

Kids Clothes Week Challenge! 

This dress is a new favorite pattern from Leila & Ben.

It is so easy and super cute! I predict that this pattern will be used to make many more of our summer dresses. 

 

Trash Bag Skirt.... Green Is the New Black!

My super crafty daughter has been taking a sewing class over the past 6 weeks. In the class,the kids were meant to create outfits out ofrecycled or up cycled materials...

They debuted their outfits last night at the annual

GREEN is the New Black Fashion Show.

Here is what Nadira made.....

A skirt made from pink trash bags and a white duct tape top.

To make the skirt~ 

*This is from a tutorial that we found on Instructables. Ours is a bit modified to make it more "little girly"

 

1. CREATE THE WAIST BAND~

She measured on her waist where she wanted the skirt to sit and then added 4"...

Cut 3 strips of duct tape to the above measurement,

Lay them out sticky side up and connect them by 1/2 " This is the waistband of the skirt.

 

2.PREPARE THE BAGS

We found PINK trash bags in the 4 gallon size at Target.

Lay the bag out flat. Cut the bottom edge off. This creates 2 open ends and 2 closed sides.

 

3.ATTACH THE PLASTIC BAGS~

Attach the bags by gathering them one bag at a time to the tape. Do a second row above the 1st row. Continue until there is approx. 2" of tape left. Attach a strip of tape to the remaining 2".. Sticky sides together.... Here is your skirt.

 

4. ATTACH THE VELCRO

At this point we measured the skirt around her waist, marked it, and attached the sticky velcro.
 

To Make The Top Of The Dress....

This is very simple. She made the "fabric" by creating strips of duct tape with the sticky sides together. The strips connect by overlapping by 1/2- 1/4". This created a rectangle according to the measurements that she wanted the top to be. (For a 10 year old it was only about 7" tall by 27" wide)

She then wrapped it around her chest. We traced the shape of the top while it was on her of where it needed trimming to accommodate her arms. Pretty free flow not at all exact! 

She connected the top to the skirt by attaching with more duct tape. 

Last... she added the sticky velcro to the top. Again, by wrapping it, marking it and applying the velcro.

Throw on a white tank top, your new recycled dress, and you are ready to show that

Green IS the new black!

 

 

Kids Clothes Week Pants Day 1 and Day 2

I am a bit behind in posting my creations for the Kids Clothes Week Challenge .    I have been busy making but not posting.. Let the catching up begin!

 Here is what I made the first 2 days... Ruffle Pants!

 I am slightly obsessed with this pattern from Sandi Henderson. It is sooo easy and they are just ridiculously cute! I made a bunch of these for my daughter last year and she has since grown out of them so of course it was the first thing that I wanted to make for the KCWC!

 

 
 

 

Kids Clothes Week Challenge 2010

 

I am participating in Kids Clothes Week Challenge! 

Work on making clothes for kids one hour each day for a week..

I love a reason to be focused with crafting. Sometimes I have too many projects going at once and nothing gets finished! But not this week! I am spending my crafting energy on sewing some clothes for kids! If you would like to join in head over to Elsie Marley