During all the kids sales at all the chain stores my mother in law and I bought a bunch of onesies. Your usual white ones- which S and I plan to dye and do something to, but also some baby blues as well. They were mostly to put underneath other clothes in the freezing winter we are having this year but we also got some long sleeved ones I thought maybe could be used on their own. I have this weird issue with baby blue though that came out even more when I saw little L in the long sleeved ones- some connection with school uniforms and those ugly skivvy's some kids wore. SO I thought to make them look more interesting and until I learn to screen print some handsewn bits seemed like the way to go.
we'll call this Effort 1, I hope there are more successful ones...
I started with a short sleeved one
Step 2: Thinking of something to go on a plain blue background. First I thought of clouds but that was too hard to cut out and hand stitch. Next I thought of planes and rocket- that can be a future project and then I thought of paper planes. I drew a bunch of paper planes to find a simple shape that would be easy to show the lines with stitching and easy to cut out.
Step 3: has no photo evidence.. probably for the best because I cut out the paper plane shape in white felt and decided to iron it....
Not very clever- I had the iron on full heat and it just "POOF" dissolves and vanished onto the iron leaving a nice sticky residue... plans commence for using different materials
Step 4: cut out more paper planes and practice how to stitch it on and work out which style looks best
went with the bottom one a- for ease and b- for ease
Step 5: putting it on the onesie.
Step 6: getting my little model to test it. Despite some clear functional issues like the fact the felt plane will probably disintegrate in the wash and after wearing it for an hour my little wriggler had some loose stitches coming apart I have a design to work with once I iron out (not with ours its covered with felt residue) some issues.
What do you think?
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