Tshirt to Pyjama

One of my brother's friends owns a garment factory outlet. The store mainly stocks sports clothing, amongst others, made of bamboo cotton which keeps you cool during summers and warm during winters. Sadly, the store holds clothes only for adults and nothing for kids. 

So last year, before moving here we decided to buy a couple of bamboo cotton clothes to wear at home. The cloth is super soft and my husband fell in love with it right away. 

Over the past year the only full-arm t-shirt he bought had become tight (ahem.. not because the t-shirt shrunk!). However, he was still not done with having it around so I decided to make a pyjama for my daughter - this way the t-shirt would still be in the family :) 

After watching few videos and tutorials on Youtube and Pinterest I ended up with my first pyjamas for my daughter:

I traced out an existing pyjama pants as pattern and cut 2 pieces of the tshirt. 

I sew up the sides together by inserting one leg piece right-side out into the other leg piece wrong side out and then turned the attached pieces wrong side out.

After that I attached the elastic to the waist area. And I ended up with this:

In the picture, the pant looks like capris because a small portion of the material was stuck in her crotch (which I noticed only after uploading the picture).

Frock from an old shirt

After a few months break, I am back to sewing! The first half of the year was very eventful for our family but now things have started to settle down and we are back to our routines!

Since summer has officially begun in this part of the country, my husband and I got to cleaning our wardrobe last weekend. There were so many clothes he wanted to get rid off/donate. And off the lot, there was this shirt (10 years old that I gifted him for our engagement) and I thought to try and convert it into a frock for my little one. And as usual, I found some great tutorials on pinterest and youtube..

This is what I had:

I traced one of my daughter's old frocks; the picture above shows it vaguely. While cutting it, you want to fold the shirt into half and then cut on one side, this makes both sides even.

I hemmed the bottom, hands and neck. Maybe I should have added a pocket or two but oh well! I might just applique a picture onto it sometime later :)