It’s day one of Kid’s Clothes Week! I started super early this KCW. Mostly because all my kids needed summer clothes. The problem with starting early is that one project turns into 4 more that I want to make. See I work like a crazy person. I don’t start one thing and then work on it until it’s done. No, I start something then get an idea for something else, abandon my first project and start on the new one right away. Then I get discouraged, or bored, or get an idea for yet another project and start that.

I end up with a huge pile of half-finished garments. It used to be that Kid’s Clothes Week was a way for me to actually sit down and sew some clothes. Now it just makes me finish things I started!

What did I finish? Well, a lot of things for my daughter. I try to sew an outfit for each of my kids during KCW, but this time my daughter ended up making out like a bandit. The theme this season is KID ART. I didn’t go all out with the theme like I did last time, but my daughter is such a prolific artist I couldn’t skip it all together. She’s been drawing a lot of happy food lately:

 

I scanned her drawings and then traced them in Inkscape. There are so many more adorable things she drew that I am still working on tracing: happy broccoli, toast popping out of a happy toaster (and saying, “Yay!”), dancing marshmallows, DJ candy (I kid you not!). I think we are just going to have to make some happy food fabric on Spoonflower. For now, she’ll have to be happy with her happy food shirt.

 

I used Lesley Riley’s Transfer Artist Paper (affiliate link) like I did last time. It’s really great stuff, but that sucker needs to be super hot when you peel it off. Like it would even help to have one iron-er on-er and one peel-er off-er. Everything else you need to know about using this transfer paper, you can learn in the world’s cutest tutorial ever.

The striped shorts I drafted myself. They are super simple racing shorts with a separate waistband and a little curved front pocket. The striped fabric I got in Montreal when Celina took me fabric shopping! It’s a stretchy cotton that’s soft and comfy. The bias tape is Nani Iro. It sort of looks like scribbles, which is another nod to the kcw KID ART theme. Double gauze bias tape might seem a little luxurious and it is. The bias tape was sitting out on my cutting table when I was making these shorts. Had it not been, I might have hoarded it forever, but it looked so perfect with the stripe I just went for it.

You can see all my KCW projects here. Happy KCW!