Button Shirts

When it comes to buying children's chlothes, I run into a bit of a problem: Kid1 is about the right size for his age, but his head is quite a bit bigger. Which means that jersey shirts in his size take a lot of pulling and tugging to get his head through, and he's not really a big fan of that. Even polo shirts are usually too tight for him, and the shirts with buttons in one shoulder seam come only in baby sizes which he has definitely outgrown.

Alas, to the sewing machine! The pattern I picked is Schnabelina's Regenbogenbody (Schnabelina's patterns will be a recurring theme in this blog), because one variation has a buttoned shoulder. I left off the lower part, thus turning the body into a shirt. And because one buttoned shoulder still seemed a little tight to me, I decided to replace both shoulder seams with buttons.

The next stop was ebay, to buy some fabric, and my goodness! I had no idea about the pretty and funny and sweet jersey fabrics out there.


Care to take a look?

Aren't those awesome? I'm completely smitten with all the lovely prints. And Kid1 enjoys wearing them because he doesn't feel like his ears get ripped of taking them on or off. A thorough success I'd say :-)

Pattern: Schnabelinas Regenbogenbody
Fabric: Jersey (ebay), Bündchen (ebay)
Buttons: Kam Snaps (snaply Nähkram)