Sunday, May 1, 2011

Blessing Outfit

My brother and his wife just had the cutest baby boy ever. Little Luke's blessing was today and he looked so cute on his suit, with a little tie and a vest, he looked adorable. I was supposed to bring them a white outfit, but since I procrastinate all the time, I never made it to their house which is like 1 hour away from mine. Besides, white outfits for babies are ridiculously expensive!!
I had gone to the store to find one of those Christening white outfits,. They are cute cute! but as I was looking at one of them I started thinking, hmmm, this outfit is so easy to make, this one is not even well finished, the fabric is nice but the finished not much, plus, I can totally make one myself.
And that is just what I did, instead of paying $52.00 for one outfit, really, who pays that much for an outfit that the baby will use one time??? insane! maybe I am too cheap.
Anyway, I spent the next 20 minutes memorizing all the details in the outfit at the store. I bought some long sleeve onesies and  I went home and started making the outfit for little Luke. It took me 2 hours. I did not use fancy fabric. I used cotton. I did not measure, I know bad me!! but I did make a pattern of the little vest. which I will share later in a tutorial, since I think anybody should and could make one of this with a different color fabric.
The tie was as seen in  I am momma hear me roar, she has cute and easy to follow tutorials. The vest has a lining and I just attached it to the onesie by hand.
For the pants I drew a pattern from one of my daughters pants and cut it out. Then I realized that Made has a tutorial for easy pants with elastic only in the back. Oh well, I will have to look at it when I make another pair of those pants.
So here it is, my two hour blessing outfit. Hopefully my brother will share a picture of baby Luke on it. and then pass it down so I can use it if I ever decide to have another baby. :)

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