Embellished Onesies

Wow - two weeks has flown by since I last posted. We've been traveling and camping with the kids. It's been a great start to our summer. The weather is heating up in Colorado and we're already in our summer routine of spending hours each day at our neighborhood pool. What would we do without it? I'm especially drawn to it this summer as the temperature climbs and my belly grows. Hope you're enjoying the beginning of summer and all of the fun outdoor activities that come with it.

And speaking of my growing belly... I've been steadily working through my pile of plain onesies, making new clothes for baby girl out of white and yellow onesies I had for the boys.
These ones I made by hand embroidering patterned fabric and then sewing the embroidered applique onto the onesie. I think they're cute and they definitely doll up an otherwise plain onesie. I'm searching for some cute socks to make coordinating baby legs to go with them.
Here are a few close-ups.

The cherry onesie was yellow and white striped. It's difficult to tell from the photo. The cupcake was cut out of the same fabric as the cherry and is appliqued on a pale yellow onesie. I added the words "lil cupcake" to the edge.

I embellished the butterfly by outlining it and adding several french knots in white.There are plenty of tutorials for making appliqued onesies, but here's the quick run-down of how I did it in case you're curious.

Prewash all of your fabric.

Secure an embroidery hoop around the part of the fabric you are going to embellish.

Using embroidery floss, embroider details of design and add words too like I did on the cupcake one.

Cut out your design. It's best to cute a wide square around where your design is. You can trim it later.

Use Heat 'n Bond iron-on adhesive {it comes in paper-backed sheets and you can find it at most fabric stores} to back your square. Once you've adhered the Heat 'n Bond to your design, trim to desired shape.

Iron the trimmed design onto the onesie. Sew around the design, close to the edge.

These onesies were such a fun and simple project. I really like hand embroidery. It's relaxing and easy to do while you're watching a movie or show on tv. You can do appliques without the embroidery and that makes this project extremely quick and simple.

Now, onto the 500 other projects in queue to finish before baby girl arrives in 7 weeks!