The other day I had to make an emergency last minute trip to Rite-Aid to buy more carpet cleaner.
I was NOT thrilled.
I ended up buying a deep stain remover as well as a heavy traffic entire room cleaner.
Uh huh. I was looking for mass coverage as well as focused removal.
Sounds delightful, no?
Followers of my blog will most definitely assume the culprit was the poo-on-the-floor 31.8 lb toddler, but no.
The offspring have joined forces against their mighty foe. Let's just say leaving a naked eight month old poo-factory alone for just a smidgen too long on the carpet to 'air out' isn't such a grand idea.
In my defense, I did have her on an absorbent pad and all...she just rolled off of it...cause she's smart like that.
Then she proceeded to roll around IN it and made quick work of spreading the 'wealth' to all corners of the nation. I'm pretty sure this was a joint collaboration between my two Poo Soldiers to see how frustrated they could make their Mama.
It worked rather well.
I'm gonna need a new battle plan...
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So, apparently I have some addictions.
1. I am addicted to naps...for my children. Mama is a better Mommy when the kids take naps.
2. I am addicted to sewing. I have experienced some major sewing binges over the course of my life. I am experiencing a sewing binge currently.
3. I am addicted to cutting up t shirts and repurposing them. Guess what? Jersey does not require finished seams. COULD. IT. GET. ANY. EASIER!?
Mash them all together and you get: Mama on a mad cutting up t shirt sewing during nap time spree.
First it was the maternity shirts. And don't even think I'm through with them! I have an entire pile in my bonus room awaiting their turn at my sewing machine.
Next up was the 'donation' pile of clothes. I may never donate another article of clothing in my life.
So, I'm just going to go ahead and warn my husband that his closet may soon be raided. Any t shirt that you haven't worn for a few months may be subject to my Fiskars, sewing machine and whim. Consider yourself warned.
During today's mad cutting up t shirt sewing during nap time spree I cut up an old shirt that someone had given me. It was old, didn't fit, and screaming to be sliced up. So I obliged.
Old blah shirt:
SLICE!
After an embarrassingly long time of hemming and hawing (tee hee, pun intended!), I cut out a simple front and back dress shape using the finished bottom shirt hem as the dress hem. I sliced long lengths to use as ruffles, one arm cuff to use as a headband, and some small pieces of the bottom hem to use as shoulder straps:
I sewed front to back and tacked on the straps. Next up I basted then scrunched up the ruffles:
Then started adding them wherever I felt like it. First up, the sleeves:
Don't be stingy with pinning, folks! They are necessary to achieve a nice seam with ruffles!
(p.s. it's MUCH easier to sew on ruffles BEFORE you finish sewing them to the back.)
(p.p.s. - yes, that IS coffee I was consuming in the afternoon. Don't judge me!)
Then I got so preoccupied sewing on ruffles that I forgot to take photos. So I made a quick little tutorial for you:
Here is the finished ruffly dress/shirt and headband:
Melikey RUFFLES. Melikey sewing ruffles.
Besides, Lil Chick was starting to feel left out of the yellow invasion and needed some spunky yellow wear:
See? She's already feeling decidedly spunky:
Off to chop up some more t shirts...
A
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I've been watching my post count, and we are officially hitting 300 today! Which means I have wasted many MANY hours writing bloggity nonsense and stories of poo and craftiness.
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