Free Sewing pattern: Baby Sleep Sack or Spring Scrunched Baby Dress

Jessica from Running With Scissors shares a free pattern on her blog for making her Baby Sleep Sack with a crossover front. The cuffs include a flap that folds over the hands to protect baby from getting scratched by their sharp little fingernails. The pattern is sized for infants newborn to 6 months, which would make this an awesome baby gift! In fact, I’m planning on making some for a friend’s little baby girl due to arrive in the next few months. Get the sleep sack pattern.

And if that’s not enough to make you squeal out oud, she follows it up with a tutorial showing to adapt the sleep sack pattern to maek this sweet Spring Scrunched Baby Dress. It’s an adaptation of her baby sleepsuit pattern. Brilliant!! Get the how-to for making the Spring Scrunched Baby Dress.

[photo from Running With Scissors]

Looking for more sewing patterns to make sleep sacks for a baby? Check out these sleep sack patterns we found on Etsy. You may also be interested in checking out this sewing book for Babies Sew Baby on Amazon.

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I’m always tempted by the pretty velvets at the fabric store. So much texture! And the way the fibers catch the light! But sewing on velvet is trickier than you’d think. That nap that lends beautiful texture also likes to slip and crawl. That nap can also spell disaster if you cut a piece the wrong direction. That isn’t to say you shouldn’t use buy that velvet and sew it into something gorgeous, you just need to go into your velvet sewing project prepared. And Melissa at Melly Sews has a post that takes you step by step through sewing on velvet.

Velvet is such a luscious fabric, especially for winter sewing projects. Of course there are velvet Christmas sewing projects – stockings, tree skirts, santa hats – but velvet is beautiful for all winter. Think of all the gorgeous velvet dresses, evening bags, hair accessories, even pillows and other home décor that you see all winter long.

Melly Sews’ post gives you the tips and tricks you need to know in order for your velvet sewing project to end up a success. There are types of projects better suited for velvets, and kinds of projects to avoid. She describes the different types of velvet available. And she also tells the best way to lay out and cut your pattern pieces from velvet fabric. Her tutorial also covers marking, pressing, and of course sewing that beautiful fabric. There’s also a video included in case that’s your preferred method for learning.

Head over to Melly Sews to learn how to sew on velvet fabric.

And if you want to learn more about that lovely blue velvet dress shown, she has a post that tells more about it including 2 ways to style it depending on if you want to be more dressy or more casual.

[photo credit: Melly Sews]

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