Stop the sag

Finally, a politician with something worthy to say:

Too bad for us here in Australia he's in New York because we too are being plagued by this horrendous epidemic. So you can imagine my shame when I saw my daughter doing the same thing when I picked her up from day care last week! Since she's such a beanpole, her store bought pants are all too short now but still way too big around her waist, especially in the disposable nappies she has to wear to the child care centre.

So I decided to take a little time out from sewing my pain in the a$$ BWOF dress that I've been working on to whip up some little pants for her, using an OOP Kwik Sew 2216 pattern. My past experiences with sewing patterns for little kids has so far been a bit hit and miss, as some of them tend to be way too big, but the Kwik Sew pattern was a good fit using the T1 size for the waist and the T4 size for length. Although I did still add elastic across the back of the pants to make sure the fit was nice and snug. I made two pairs in cotton drill, one in a caramel brown colour and the other in black because you're certainly never too young to have some wardrobe neutrals to mix and match with all the pink in one's wardrobe! Anna has put them through their paces, and if she could I think she'd give them a big thumbs up (although shaking her head 'no' to everything is her favourite move at the moment).

They are proper little pants too - with a zipper fly and a button waistband, side pockets and rear patch pockets. I left off the zipper fly shield because that was getting way too fiddly for little pants but they are pretty cute:

And check out Anna striking a pose for you, this is almost worthy of a Kmart catalogue!

I also made her that purple gingham shirt, from vintage Butterick 422 which is a boy's pattern but really a shirt is a shirt and in purple it's girly enough. I made no changes to the pattern other than sewing the pocket on the bias and using my trusty plastic press snaps instead of fiddly buttons down the front because she doesn't sit still for very long these days and trying to do up buttons would drive me nuts.

Happily, all of these were made from stash fabrics, and now I can send my daughter off to school safe in the knowledge that she's not flashing her nappy around as though she is a yuppie reliving the 90s trend for showing off a pair of Calvin Klein briefs!