Tuesday, 14 April, 2009

My Little Pony outfit

So about a month ago, my 2 and a half year old niece was sick and requested a My Little Pony shirt to replace the one she outgrew, on my way home I stopped and picked up fabric and let it sit around for a bit, after all I wasn't sure what style of shirt to make, I finally decided on a peasant blouse, but still had not completed it when my niece spotted the fabric last week and asked me when I was going to finish her pony shirt, well with Easter only 3 days away I got busy, made the shirt and used a pair of my dad's old pants to make a pair of pants to match her shirt. She was a great sport and posed for pictures for my sister in law.
The front of the shirt, back of the pants (She's wearing the pants backwards in classic 2 year old fashion)

And the back of the shirt/ front of pants,I guess it's more fun to see if you can find the pony when it's on the back instead of the front



Link to directions for making a peasant blouse : http://indietutes.blogspot.com/2007/07/peasant-blouse.html,

and here is a tutorial for the pants

1: use the bottom half of the old pants
2:take one leg and slide it inside the other - with right sides facing each other.
3: carefully fold a pair of the childs existing pants with one leg inside the other and line up the crotch seam, slide this over the pant bottoms, matching the seams.
4: using the existing pants as a guide, cut a crotch into the pants bottoms at the top (CUT 2" HIGHER THAN EXISTING PANTS FOR A WAISTBAND)(bottom seams should match with bottom seams of existing pants
5. sew the crotch seam up and turn pants to proper side
6. Fold top over 1/2" and then 1", stitch so there is a casing for elastic, leave a small hole.
7: Using a safety pin, thread elastic through casing (about 2" smaller than child waist
8: stitch elastic together so it lies flat, stitch small hole closed
9: Enjoy!

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