It was my son's 3rd birthday yesterday and I decided he needed some boy bling for his celebration and later used in his room (when he actually has his own and is not living in a sea of purple and flowers from his big sister). I made this out of a favorite old dress shirt of Philip's. I had made a pair of shorts for him previously and I still had enough left over for this. It took awhile to get the letters to what I wanted and I am unsure about the b. I went back and forth between capital and lowercase, but ended up with the lowercase and now I am regretting it. Luckily it will be an easy fix if I do decide to change it. Then I did something I have never done before, bought bias tape!!!! How commercial, I know :) It cut this project time in half, so I just might be sold. I also used a really thick pellon so they are very stiff, which makes them hang nicely. I absolutely love it once I got it all together and up on a wall. My machine was having a hard time with the tension, so the back is not as good as I would want, but I was done fiddling around with it, and who sees the back?? Actually the back is made of the same brown and white polka dot the letters and and it would be really cute flipped around with something on that side too. Maybe temporary things later.
He also is very into pirates. It literally is his alter ego. I made him a pirate ship cake with the intentions of filling it up with a bunch of different pirates from cake pops. I hated making cake pops. They turned out not so good, but they weren't so bad you couldn't recognize them, so I only made 3 and gave up. My candles were supposed to be the cannons. The package said they were sparkler trick candles. I was imagining them sparkling like the end of a cannonball, but they were just plain old candle flames, and the trick park was that they were just hard to blow out. I expected them to go out then come back on. Maybe putting them sideways effected their ability to be cool.
My other project was a superhero cape. I saw my sister in law make 2 of these on 2 different occasions and they were easy and cute and her boys loved them. Ben was kind of talking about it after a visit, so I decided to try it out. His favorite color is blue, so I decided to go that route instead of the typical red and I did all black because I liked the flowiness (and it's what I had in the fabric bin). I attempted 2 swords (that's what the grey things are) but it got way to tedious to sew so I bagged the handles so they came out more like just things on the side. I had limited myself to make it in a naptime only from start to finish. The velcro was sewn on as he walked out to my sewing room!!! Just in the nick of time. So picking it out and redoing swords was not an option. Plus, it's just play clothes. I loved the fact that when I came out to breakfast this morning, this is what I saw. That makes it a success.
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