Happy Saint Patrick's day!

I’m a baby clothes magnet. Seriously, they come flying to me from every direction. From cousins, friends, friends of friends. Super handy, and they are all adorable. And once in a while, one of those pieces is even cuter than all the rest. Like this cute retro Småfolk overall.

I loved it so much that I was determined to draw a pattern for it. I already had the retro fabric, I won it last year from Ottobre. Isn’t it just perfect for Saint Patrick’s day?

And so it happened. Slightly slower than I had planned, though. My son was size 62 when I chose this fabric, but now he’s getting very close to 74. Which meant I was short of fabric, all of a sudden.

To solve that problem, I cut the shoulder straps and added elastic bias binding. The same I’d use to finish the shoulder strap edges.

I didn’t sew the inside edges of the trousers closed, but I used press buttons instead. This should make it easier to change nappies (the original version didn’t have these, so I had to get the whole thing off all of the time). Unfortunately, I only had supermarket press buttons lying around, the kind you have to sew on, and they aren’t the best quality. They open really easily, so that may pose a problem once my little guy starts crawling.

It was the first time that I used elastic bias binding (I always thought it quite confusing, fabric in tubes), and it was also the first time that I used my serger to get a project together. And I must say, it went really well, mainly thanks to Mamasha’s tutorial.

I still have other Ottobre jersey fabric lying around that I won then. Maybe I should start making some t-shirts for my little guy soon enough, before he gets too big for that fabric as well. Although he still has to grow into these trousers as well.

And in his bike.

And to all those cousins, friends and friends of friends I’d like to say: please keep those baby clothes coming. I am and will be grateful into eternity.