Unable to stop with the one pair of wide leg lounge pants, I used the rest of the cute flannel I bought at Joanns for the baby to make coordinated loungewear for one of my dearest friends instead (sorry baby). She lives far away, but I wish that I could join her for tea and cookies every day
I know, I’ve been taking kind of crappy pictures lately, sorry. The pattern on the flannel is darling teapots and cups and cookies. I made the pants cropped and used pink grosgrain ribbon as a drawstring, and pink bias binding to hem them. I also appliqued a little teapot to a soft tank from Old Navy to match:
I’m sending these off on their way wrapped in sparkly pink tissue paper, and I hope she wears them while relaxing with a cuppa and something sweet!
I wish I’d gotten more of this fabric, as I like it even more now after making something with it- I was very tempted to keep these for myself but I resisted (that is how good a friend she is). As Moondoggie will tell you, I have *way* too much fabric as it is, and need to seriously downsize. So I’m trying to make creative use of my scraps and find good projects for my long lengths of fabric so I can make way for new things. I’m a shameful hoarder, and ever fearful that I will use a wonderful fabric for the wrong project and regret it, then find the perfect project and never be able to find the fabric again. I have to tell myself “there will always be more fabric” every time I get panicky about it. For example, thanks to Free Spirit discontinuing Lightning Bugs and Other Mysteries, I will now probably NEVER use my goldfish, bicycle and gnome fabric because I can never get it again. Bah.