More sewing...

I've done more sewing than the baby sleeping bag, I've been getting ready for Christmas.... here is the christmas stocking I made for Aiden, bright red cotton with an appliqued christmas tree. I added a yellow felt diamond to the top of the tree (a star was too hard!), but can't decide if I should add more decorations to the tree or leave it as is.

Over the last 2 days I made Aiden a new outfit out of some of our old clothes... Mum gave me the sewing patterns she had from making our clothes so I used the old knitwit pattern & whipped up a t-shirt from one of my old ones, and a pair of shorts from an old pair of Gus'.
I love making little clothes, it's so quick. I think the shorts took me about an hour, including unpicking & resewing the inside leg seams as I mucked it up & sewed the wrong seams together!

His outfit is much less retro than the pattern! and I made the shorts about 2 inches longer too! much nicer to have long shorts than little stubbies :)  I used a cotton drill fabric for the shorts rather than a knit but they still worked out well.

And lastly, when mum gave me the patterns she also gave me some fabric, including an A line skirt she had cut out years ago but never made. I finished this off too, although it was a bit small so I added a panel down each side so it fit :)