Per tradition, I made my little blondie her swimsuit.  It’s a tradition if you do it two years in a row, right??  I don’t like the little hoochie girl bikini’s in the stores and one-pieces are too short and irritating to get off when potty time comes.  Therefore, she gets two pieces made by mama.  I also just squeaked by in getting it done in time for her first water day at daycare.  I got it done in time…that is the important part. 🙂

Here is the first one.  I bought a half ton (slight exaggeration) of swimsuit fabric and this is the one she chose as her favorite.  Shockingly she chose pink…her most favorite color in the whole wide world right now. 

High quality picture taken in the bathroom before daycare.  Sorry I was too lazy to get a better one!

I drew this up, using a pair of her undies as a template.  I made them too wide, so there is a seam going down the middle.  Then the leg openings are a little too small, so I adjusted that on the next one.  They don’t cut off her circulation, but they aren’t incredibly comfortable either.

For the top I was going for ease of dressing.  I made the back of the tank so it opens and it has three large snaps for the closures.  This fabric curled something awful, so I just cut some fabric pieces, let them curl and attached to the top.  The top has two layers as it was a thinner fabric.  I just serged the edges for a little bit of an unfinished look and the top one I did it in an erratic pattern and pulled while I serged it.  I like how it turned out, and she looks cute in it.

I need to make another one, because you always need a spare.  There are times when the laundry just doesn’t get done in time.  It will give me quite a bit of laundry lee-way. 😉 

Another bit of sewing I did last week was neighbor girls swimsuit top.  We are all about swimsuits this week aren’t we??  Her two piece had the bottoms fitting, but the top was about 2 inches too big and a bit too much skin showing.  She popped over after dinner on Tuesday night and I fixed it up quick for her.  I love being able to help people out…especially when it was such an easy fix to just add a new seam. 🙂

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Thanks for all the well wishes for our little man.  He is better now and back at daycare today.  He slept on it wrong and wrenched his neck.  He was immobile most of the day on Sunday, but he started to move around yesterday a bit.  He didn’t want to go anywhere without his heat rice neck wrap.  We pretty much had to pry it from his hands this morning. 😉