Baby Gift: Ruffle Bum Onesie

I've mentioned before that my brother and his wife are expecting a little girl in September. The minute I found out, I immediately began mentally planning all the little fun flower headbands and flower onesies.

Really it just took a matter of getting to the store and buying the onesie. I'm still planning on making a matching headband but that might have to be next Sunday's tutorial. You see, I don't own a sewing machine...and I did this all by hand. As you can imagine this has consumed most of my time the last two days.

So for those of you with sewing machines you can skip some steps and some time, but for those of you doing this by hand - set aside a lot of time...

Ruffle Bum Onesie with Matching Ruffle Flower Collar!:

Aw, my niece will look so cute in this!!!

What you'll need:

1. Fabric of your choice. 2. Scissors. 3. A Sewing Machine...but if you don't have one - a needle & thread. 4. A onesie or whatever you'd like to do this to. 5. Beads/ Buttons (not pictured.)

Next:

Cut a couple strips of fabric. Since I was using broadcloth I ripped a couple strips off. I like the frayed edge. But really it's all about preference.

Next:

You'll begin the "ruffle," by weaving the needle in and out of the middle of the fabric strip. If you have a sewing machine...I hope you know how to accomplish this.

Next:

Keep going until you'll hit the end of the fabric strip. Push it all the way down to the end of the thread so it bunches nicely and you'll be left with a ruffle strip.

Like these:

I decided to go with three ruffles. But really it's up to you.

Next:

Begin sewing the ruffle strips to the onesie. This was REALLY tedious - making sure I was staying on a somewhat straight line...doing it all by hand. But eventually you'll finish with the first ruffle and move onto the second one...

And you'll repeat the process a third time...

This is where I was really wishing I had a sewing machine...

Finished ruffle bum:

Now - onto the collar:

Cut a smaller strip of fabric, except cut the strips to about 6" long. And then begin the weaving again...

Eventually you'll be left with half circles - like this:

These half-circles are easily placed into a circle. I put a couple stitches through the middle to make sure it kept the circle/ flower shape. Then I began sewing them onto the collar:

Once all three were attached I decided they needed something more. Except I could only find two of the same color buttons in everything I had. So beads it was:

I just sewed three clear beads to the middle to give them more of a "flower" look.

Like this:

The finished product:

I'll hopefully finishing the matching headband later on this week. I have a couple ideas of what I'm going to do so check back next Sunday to see what I come up with!

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