Why would you send your child out into the world dressed in dull, colorful clothing, when you can transform them with a simple subtle touch – such as a smile. It’s easy to add an accent to a pair of flat pants, an inexpensive hat, or anything else. I followed the leaders of free clothing and boutiques. Some of the kids had such fun unique shirts, pants and hats that I was inspired to try out a few of my ideas.
kids clothes You can save a few dollars on the dealer price by exchanging well-worn clothing with a colorful design. Or you can add a few new brands of clothing if you want. For colorful accents, purchase leftover fabric or poly felt squares. Your child can help with the shapes, and you can do the sewing. Depending on your DIY project, a designer’s touch could take anywhere from fifteen minutes to an hour
Instruments
- Hand sewing needle
- Scissors
- Sewing Machine
Material
- Inexpensive knitted hat
- Kid pants, shirt or other simple clothing
- Polyester felt squares or fleece remnants
- Colorful parts of the fabric
- Cardstock for forms
- It follows
Put a smile on your hat
I loved the sometimes wild, sometimes cutesy hats at the local children’s store. Some had furry fake mo-hawks and monster googly features. But I decided a little differently, a simple smile. I added a smile and a cheap black eyed hat to my nephew Daniel. You can easily wear one shirt, jacket or pants.
-I use cardstock to draw and cut out the smile and eyes of the pattern (a quarter moon shape and two circles).
-Use a fabric sewing marker or pencil to refer to the shapes on the filter or fabric of your choice.
– Cut out your smile and 1 and 1/2 inch circles for white eyes.
-Cut smaller circles for the site and sew them into place.
– Pin the eyes on the front of the hat near the top.
-Pin the smile in place so that it shows when the bottom of the hat is turned upside down.
-Hand is enough. (optional) back
-Sew in place with a sewing machine.
– Use your hand with your whip, if you prefer. For tips, check Youtube video “How to spin a whip by hand” by Cyberseams.
Smile So you like it
-This smile is bigger or smaller–even the size of a baby–for a colorful, cute way of being born.
– Give the green hat a ranunculus look: big triple eyes, small nose… and of course a big smile. (image #3)
-Add squinty eyes, and a beek instead of an owl’s smile or a not-so-happy bird face. (image #3)
Add a wild brim to a tight hat
-Cut a 12 by 3 inch piece of felt or fleece.
-Along the length of the piece, cut parallel cuts 2 and 3/4 inches high, 3/4 inches apart.
– Open seam inexpensive connected hat.
-Pin hem in place, seam outside.
-Resew sum.
-For they look like a wild monster, you can also add eyes and a wild smile.
Add pants or shirts in a few simple steps
– Decide on the forms you want. It’s all up to you, but something simpler is better, like a circle or a square
Cut the pattern from the cardstock.
-Draw a pattern on the pants or shirt.
– Whose area
-Cut a square of accent color fabric that is at least an inch larger in circumference than the cut area.
-Place your accent fabric –facing exterior– after the cut area. (image #4)
-Sew in place around the perimeter of the cut. (image #4)
-Use a SUO zig-zag sewing machine or sew by hand with a SUO whip if you prefer.
-If your device of choice is prone to battles, pray with Fray’s Control Coats to prevent them from retrieving.
What if you don’t get used to it?
You can add a few quick accents to your kid’s outfit with this simple piece of art.
-Bring half a yard of fuse web, like Pellon, to the fabric store.
-Heat stress test your fabrics to make sure they can stand up to ironing work from fabric to fabric fuse.
-Iron the fusible web, then the paper up, to the back of your fabric pieces.
-Ce your figures.
The pieces will have an iron coating on the adhesive when you peel off the paper.
-Follow package instructions and iron in place. Easy!
Add something to the smile
Smileys, laces, bird and frog faces, and geometric patterns are great for kids’ clothing, even teens. But what about you? You wouldn’t want a smile on your hat, but a cut with a coordinating fabric insert or appliqué could add some color to your old jean jacket. Or it could give a new life to a pair of pants already, and you will have fun.
