Showing posts with label Dunhelm Mills. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dunhelm Mills. Show all posts

Friday, 15 April 2016

Children's coveralls

Hello

Today I'd like to show you some coveralls I made for my four grandsons.  I hope they will be ideal for them to paint, draw or even eat in.  

I made these using a pattern from Sharon Gammon, WhoopsieDaisyDesigns and fell in love with them.


I bought some Super Heroes cotton material from the Pumpkin Patch in Hailsham, East Sussex and lined it in plain yellow cotton with a green pocket.  


I cut out a character from the material and appliquéd it onto the pocket.


The back has two sets of ties one by the neck and one by the waist.


The second coverall I made using pirate material which I already had in my stash, on sale from Dunhelm Mills a couple of years ago!


This time I cut out the treasure chest and the pirates' galleon and appliquéd them onto the pocket before I put the pocket on the main fabric.


As you can see I lined it in red cotton and used plain blue cotton for the pocket.  


Again I put two sets of ties on the back.

These two will be winging their way to Australia together with a present for my grand-daughter, which I shall blog about soon.

I also made a spiderman one and a woodland one for my other two grandsons, but I forgot to take photos of them!  

My grandsons range from 16 months to 6 years old and I have made the same size for them all.  The beauty of this pattern is that it will fit all sizes around the neck and waist and all that changes is the length.  I must say it is quite long on my 16 month old grandson but he is probably likely to  make more mess than the others!  (possibly!)

Thank you for looking.

Liz x

Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Another apron

Hello

As promised in my blog after Christmas here is the second apron I made at Sharon's Whoopsiedaisy.





This time I used some Christmas material I bought from Dunhelm store last year.  It seemed perfect for the design.  I already had the burgundy material for the pockets and straps.

Again I used Crafters Companion A3 double sided card for the box.  This was for my son's mother-in-law.  She seemed absolutely delighted with it.  I hope she really was!

Thank you for looking.

Liz x