Baby Booties

     Oh Baby
These booties are beauties.
  


I  had a beautiful piece of wool melton cloth nicely folded and sitting on my sewing table for the good part of a year.  
I would glance at it every once in awhile and on occasion would give the top surface fold a stroke with my the inside of my hand.
It was rich, warm and soft to touch. 

I knew that over the course of passing time I would find a project that fit the fabric. All I had to do was recognize it when I saw it!

In the meantime and in between that time

one of my Sons stopped by with a couple pair of jeans that were desperately in need of repair. 
As always he needed them as soon as I could get to them!


I did manage to repair the jeans just before my sewing machine
started to run out of time. - literally.

 The timing was out and the bobbin case was not rotating properly underneath so when the needle went down to stitch
 it was instead striking the metal bobbin case and bending the needle.
After several attempts to repair it myself I finally relented and took it in.  

I would end up being without my machine for three months!! 

SO..I would hand stitch.
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Baby Booties popped up.
 
 
I liked this patter in particular because it was only 2 pieces.
I knew the moment I saw the pattern that the melton cloth was meant to be made into booties. 
The gorgeous grey was ideal for the outer booty
and the soft, regal red felt a dream for the inside liner. 


Although the booties I viewed had been sewn by machine 
with right sides together and then turned good side out, I chose to 
work with the pattern by hand stitching and using the fabric good side out.

I used a blanket stitch around the booties, sewing together the outer and inner layer of the booties at top and bottom with a contrasting embroidery thread.

The flowers pieces are individually cut from assorted felt pieces and are then stitched together and sewed onto the booties.
I have also used the flowers to distinguish between right and left booty. The flowers should be worn on the outside of the foot.

   I used a single, hand held hole punch to make the holes
 and then added the laces of red ribbon.

Baby beautiful Booties

I was so excited with the results of the first pair of booties

that I chose to cut the entire meter of melton cloth into baby booties!

 

        

 

Baby Booties

            
              I made 24 pairs! 
                          
              One size only. Fits baby to six months.
            This may vary slightly according to the age, size and frame of the little bundle that will wear them.
                   I know that a pair was purchased for an 11 months old girl. The booties fit perfectly!
                                                               $24.00 pair
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A baby denim Sunsuit on a handsome little model.

I have had this pattern running round in my head for over 20 years. 
The last time I made denim summer suits my oldest Son was about 2 and happily modeled this version of the summer suit for me. 

Denim Summer suit @ Craft Blog here

I made his suit in 1992. Here it is!


I purchased the seam binding and the snaps.
I decorated the denim with both the fabric paint and acrylic paint spatter after it had been stitched.
The white paint was a puff paint and so required that I bake the garment for about 7 minutes at 250 degrees. 
It is machine wash and dryer safe.




These are the 2015 version of the summer suit.
 Fashioned from the leg of blue jeans these adorable sun suits are a super summer solution for little boys and little girls alike.
Velcro and or buttons and snap enclosures help to make putting on the denim summer suit as easy as ABC
Open the suit up at neck and sides and lay it flat out. Lay the baby in the back bum area.  Pull the bib up at front and secure shoulder and sides.
Add  suede baby boots and a cute t-shirt to the outfit and smile out loud at the outcome. 

Denim Summer suits @ craft blog

      Thanks to little Landon 
                     for being such a happy, 
                                     handsome and willing model.

Lillian the Domestic Engineer.Blogspot.ca

                      in spite of the fact he was a bit too small for his britches.

 

 I love summer and babies too!!

Sew, are you up to it?

In the land of Dependent Opportunities!

  March has been a full of opportunity...
 Lillian the Domestic Engineer

 I am fearfully excited 
 at the prospects 
 of the confines
 of a new found freedom.....
 paid employment!

My employers of many years
have informed me that their aging maturity
 provides for me new opportunity..
the chance to grow independently.

 I have been lovingly "Let Go".. 
     Mom we are no longer babies, you know!


I am no longer the Mother of necessity
and yet more needed than I'll ever be... 

I am no longer as vigilant as I once had to be
and yet see more than I've ever seen...     

I am no longer as smart as I once was
and yet wiser than I'll ever be!  

   .
Everybody's been happy living At Ease.. 
doing as they like, exactly when they please. 
 Taking for granted that the things that get done
are forever and willingly undertaken
 by dear OLD Mom!



Brawn, beauty and brains

I'm expecting a little re-arranging... 
in the duties of tradition
 I AM looking to go to work after all
 and not on a vacation!

I'm standing at the door of my Liberation, 
a time I've imagined filled with great Celebration....
Facing the future, I see the past in my way...
 dirty dishes on the counter of an unfinished day.
Shoes in the entrance and coats on the floor
but in the name of opportunity
I make my way to the door! 

  
Bring it on, I'm ready 
or should I say 
I'm as ready as I'll ever be.





And then the telephone rang in on my reality.

 It was my future employer calling to say that they've had an office shuffle and won't be hiring today.
"I feel really bad" she said.
"I understand" I replied. 
" I'll call you if anything changes"" she offered
"Thanks" I finished, I'll now hang up and cry.

I failed to secure my real world opportunity, 
they are not hiring anybody!

There I stood in my brand new shoes, sporting a new jacket 
and a new hairdo. My fancy pants were pressed and my shirt was too and the color in my earrings matched both my vest and my shoes..
All dressed up and no place to go!

 
  Facing the facts of an altered reality
 I catch a glimpse of myself looking back at me. 
In the mirror by the door to my fantasy
out where fresh air and opportunity beckon me.
I see opportunity not working for me?
The reflection of the person that was off to see
is not the same person now staring back at me.

ME the Queen of Domesticity
now clearly seeing the reality...
Who, oh who could ever replace me here
in the land of (dependent) opportunities!