My two youngest were recently invited to a birthday party for some friends who are brothers. Since two of my kids were invited, I didn’t feel right simply bringing only one gift apiece ( the Mom only asked for one gift per child), so I decided to make each boy a cape.
The oldest boy was turning 7, and is really in to sports. So for the inside of his cape I chose a sports print, and found coordinating orange fleece for the back, the star mimicked the pattern on the lining.
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| Lining of T cape |
The other little guy was turning 3, and is just in love with trains. You would think that train prints would be in abundance, but alas I struck out. So instead I found a neutral calming green stripe, and was lucky enough to find a fleece remnant in a coordinating color, Then I was able to fashion a train shape out of felt with his initial on it.
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| Lining of E cape |
And this week, one of my favorite little girls is turning 2, so she is old enough to get her very own cape, which will make her very happy when she is running around with her cape clad friends.
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| Lining of B cape, pretty hard to see but it is actually a tiny gingham print. |
love it! Now adays kids don't really appreciate the simply things in life. But I don't believe its because they are greedy(well some are, but thats not the point) I think its because we don't give them the opportunity to. You don't always need the video game or latest toy. Kids can develop imagination, etc with things like this. Besides you are so good at! God bless those who can sew. I would not be one of them. : )
ReplyDeleteThanks Andrea! One of my friends told me last night that I should sell them, then she placed an order for one. Woot!
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