2014 Fall Kids Clothes Week: Part 2

Here is the rest of my week's project for Kids Clothes Week, the robes!  I used what I had on hand for the fabric and altered a regular arm-less cape for the pattern.

I didn't make the robe for Emily (holding the cat)

Here are the girls modeling their skirts I also made.
See the post about them here

2014 Fall Kids Clothes Week: Part 1

I wasn't sure if I was going to do the Kids Clothes Week this time around, but since I was working on Halloween costumes anyway, I thought 'why not?' !  I didn't realize until the last time that KCW has a theme!  This season's theme is Storybook and since I was working on Harry Potter themed things, it fits!  I worked on everyone's things a little bit every day, so I'll post the finished product for everyone's tomorrow.  Today, I am showcasing the skirts that I made for the girls.  I had to design a pattern to get it the way I needed.  I was happy with how they turned out.

Reference pictures:

My versions:

Sorry they are so wrinkled, I need to iron!

2014 Summer Kids Clothes Week: Day Seven

The final day is the wrap dress for Sarah.  I also altered her dress to be an actual wrap dress.

2014 Summer Kids Clothes Week: Day Six

This day brings a wrap dress for Emily.  I altered the pattern to actually be a wrap dress.  The pattern had a zipper in the back and the wrap was sewn down.

2014 Summer Kids Clothes Week: Day Five

And now, the matching shirt for Sarah to go with her tier skirt. ☺

The skirt and shirt together:

2014 Summer Kids Clothes Week: Day Four

My next project was a shirt for Emily to go with her tier skirt.  This is also from "Simplicity 4206:  Sewing for Dummies".

 The skirt and shirt together:

2014 Summer Kids Clothes Week: Day Three

Next is a matching tier skirt for Sarah in her favorite color, blue.  This is also from "Simplicity 4206:  Sewing Patterns for Dummies", but I had to make a bigger size since my pattern didn't go big enough.

2014 Summer Kids Clothes Week: Day Two

The piece for today is a simple tier skirt for Emily in pink, her favorite color. ☺This is from "Simplicity 4206:  Sewing Patterns for Dummies".  It had a lot of instructions on just how to sew (since it's a 'for Dummies' pattern) that I had to skip.

My Easter Dress

I didn't get a chance to post about my dresses since our Charter line was taken out by the neighbor's tree on Saturday evening and it took 69 hours to be restored.  I ended up with a trial dress also to see what size(s) I needed.

Kids Clothes Week Spring 2014: Day Seven

Since Sarah ended up with an "extra" dress from doing the trial run dress, I made a similar dress for Emily as well.

Kids Clothes Week Spring 2014: Day Six

Today I finished the last of the kids' Easter clothes (leaving only my dress to go).  Today, was Sarah's turn.

Kids Clothes Week Spring 2014: Day Five

Today was the day to make Will's Easter shirt.  Same as Andy's, just bigger ☺

Kids Clothes Week Spring 2014: Day Four

For Day 4, I did Andy's Easter shirt.

Kids Clothes Week Spring 2014: Day Three

I sewed Emily's Easter dress today.  I figured if something came up and I couldn't get to the other dresses, at least Sarah and I had ones that I'd just sewn (to check the sizes), so I did Emi's dress. ☺

Kids Clothes Week Spring 2014: Day Two

Today I cut out the pieces for everyone's Easter outfits.  By cutting out the girls' and my dresses at the same time, I used 5 yards instead of the 6 yards that the patterns said I'd need total.  I had gotten 7 yards of fabric since I didn't know at the time what pattern I'd be using, so now I have 2 yards of fabric to make something else.

Kids Clothes Week Spring 2014: Day One

This week is the Spring version of the Kids Clothes Week and I figured it was perfect for working on Easter clothes!  Based on the pattern envelope, both girls needed a size that was smaller than they normally wear.  So I decided I'd make the size I thought I needed for Sarah in a different fabric as a trial run.  If it was too small, then it could be for Emily!  It turned out that it did fit Sarah.  I used the size 8 pattern but with the length of the size 12.

Winter 2014 Kids Clothes Week: Day 7

The final day of KCW brings the pair of pants for Andy.

How they started out (cut off legs of a man's pair of pants)

Winter 2014 Kids Clothes Week: Day 6

The last pair of pants for William is this large cord brown corduroy.  It is done the same as the pants from Day 4 (except the top stitching on the side pockets) but this is a cord versus a dress pant.

Winter 2014 Kids Clothes Week: Day 5

Today's project was a pair of jeans.  These were a little more time consuming!

Fake fly and fake belt loops