Cheri over at I Am Momma - Hear Me Roar has solved this dilemma with The "Always Tuck Me In" Shirt tutorial, which turns a dress shirt and a onesie into a dress shirt that always stays tucked! This is a winning solution for so many reasons:
- Baby looks snazzy wearing a dress shirt that stays tucked. Nothing less snazzy than an untucked and rumpled dress shirt.
- Mommy escapes insanity caused by needing to tuck dress shirt back in every time she picks baby up.
- Mommy saves money by buying great-condition boys' dress shirts and stained-neck onesies at yard sales. Compare the maximum $1 for both of those items to the $20 price tag on one of these or $40 for one of these. Or don't bother comparing because spending $1 will always be better than spending $20 and waaay better than spending $40.
- Daddy is happy because Mommy is saving money and because Baby looks oh-so-handsome and garners more "handsome like his daddy" compliments.
Money spent: 25¢ for dress shirt (last summer's yard sale-ing stash); free hand-me-down onesie; all other materials on hand
Following Cheri's instructions, I cut... and cut...
Turned and sewed...
And... done! So easy!
Perfect for little boys who love to play with sticks...
What I did differently...
- My onesie didn't have side seams like Cheri's, so after I cut the bottom off the onesie, while it was still laying flat, I marked each side with a marker so that I could match my marks with the side seams of the dress shirt.
- Before sewing, I pinned my marked sides to the side seam. When it comes to evenly distributing stretch, I must have pins to help me.
- As I stretched the onesie to be the same width as the dress shirt, I noticed that the button-down front (the overlapping button strip thing whose name I do not know) was coming open, so I pinned that part of the shirt closed to prevent any distortion or gap.
Absolutely no changes! This is so simple and I will for a certainty be doing this again. Maybe even to The Mr's shirts if I can find a onesie large enough... ;)
UPDATE 9.9.10: One possible change... apply this treatment to a polo shirt! The lovely Nora commented that she used to do this to her boys' polo shirts... so now I can't wait to get my hands on a polo to try it out!
This project is also my first Stashbusting September project (since I purchased the shirt last summer... before my almost-one-year-old was even born!). I'm fairly confident that I can go the whole month crafting only the planned-and-never-started projects in my stash... add to that the started-and-forgotten projects and I could probably go until Christmas!My next stashbuster is a project I started last September: the diaper bag I started sewing the day before my son was born! I gave myself a one-year deadline and it's approaching all too quickly...
17 comments:
Oh my heck, SO cute, Lu!!!!! You're so talented. :D
Doh! Why didn't I think of that SOONER! A big sanity-saver for sure.
This is so clever!!
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Oh, what great idea! This just is so great! I wish I would have known this when my kids were little, I am going to tell my daughters though becuse I have a lot of little grandson's! Thanks! I am visiting from new friedn friday!
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Thanks for sharing this with me! Your little guy is so cute. Love those bigs eyes! Your blog is really cute. I love your button. Nice work! Thanks again!
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Man, I need to learn this. Fast! How freaking crafty are you??? This is amazing. You are the ultimate saver-crafty-wife!
Holy MOLY!!!!!!!!!!! That is so amazing! And *if* I have a boy, I'm totally going to try that. LOVE it!
I LOVE the idea! I have a button-up white Sunday shirt from Baby Gap that snaps between the legs like that, and it is my favorite. I'm so excited to learn that I can make all my "tuck-in" shirts my favorites. Thanks Lu!
Love that - I wish I would have thought to do that when my boys were little.
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I remember doing this to some polos 16yrs ago when I was a first-time mom. Loved them then, love them now! Great job & what an adorable model you have there! {wink}
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Such a great idea! I wish I would have seen this when my son was a baby!
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Uhm . . . I just saw this on Someday Crafts! Don't forget me when you become a crazy famous blogger!
ya, that's a great way to keep that shirt tucked-in! do you think my 6 year old would go for something like that? :)
I looked for these in stores everywhere almost three years ago!
what I wouldn't have given to have seen this when my son was a baby and wearing dress shirts all untucked and flapping around... :) Of course, his shirts are untucked and flapping around still, but he's almost three, so can't really do the whole onesie thing anymore. If I ever have another boy, I'm doing this.
I was fighting the never tucked in shirt all day at Church. I posted on facebook that they should make button-up onesies! Then I googled it and found you! So excited to make one of these for my 7-month-old. Thanks, Lu.
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