Going quackers

At the ripe old age of 'not-quite-two' the smallest in the house is having a love affair.
With ducks.

So when I saw Sally's very sweet ducky PJ's I couldn't resist the urge to make some for the little one, despite the fact that she has hand-me-downs from her two older sisters.

The look on her little face and the loud exclaimations of "DUCK" heard around the house when she saw them made it well worth the little effort involved.


I used the lovely O+S bedtime story PJ pattern but am yet to make the top, in the meantime I did a quick applique on an existing shirt.

This also reminds me to express long-overdue thanks for another lovely duck that arrived in my letter box, a very long time ago from the lovely Kate.

I mentioned to Kate that I wanted to get a duck shirt for the duck-mad one and she sent me not only a duck shirt but a mushroom singlet and some cup cakes ones as well , all wrapped up in a fabulous 70s cafe-style kitchen curtain.

(Photo from Kate's blog)

I planned to wait and thank Kate using a picture of said shirt, but I'm unable to show you the actual shirt because despite now being slightly snug on her rather round little belly, the duck literally goes from the wash onto the child, back to the wash, back onto the child.

You get the picture.

And each time it emerges from the washing basket a shout of 'duuuuuck' echoes through the house.

So thanks Kate, sorry this is so belated but I can't tell you how much your shirts are appreciated, and I think soon duck might migrate to a new larger shirt.

I admit, I caved

I've always said that I don't 'do' commercial 'character' prints when it comes to sewing.

You know, Winnie the Pooh, Disney Princesses, Dora and The Wiggles...

I feel like our kids are bombarded enough each day with advertising and marketing, so I have tried to steer clear of it in things that I make.
Except book characters, I make an exception there!

But then four big blue eyes were looking up at me pleadingly when two small girls spotted this on the clearance table at Spotlight.

And I justified it to myself because they would only be wearing them at night, inside and at least it wasn't Dorothy the Dinosaur in her true colours of vivid green and gold, it was only two-tone pink.

I could live with that, right?


So I caved, and bought it.
Metres of it, as required to make two pair of Oliver+s bedtime story PJ's.

I bound them with pink gingham and pink dots.

It was worth sacrificing a small piece of my soul to the merchandising powers of The Wiggles to see the looks on their faces and the very cute prancing around in their new PJ's when they were finished.

Of course I still have enough to make some for the smallest miss, oh dear!