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 Kids clothes week, day 1: preparations

I'm really excited about starting Kids' Clothes Week. I guess I feel I've been talking the talk about being a homemaking, homemade-making (you know what I mean) mother for a while now, and perhaps not walking the walk in quite the same way. Hopefully this challenge will give me the push I need to take the next step in our homemade life and make a large proportion of our clothes and household textiles.

I think the first mission is going to be pyjamas. Not because Teddy is most urgently in need of pyjamas, but because I figure that they'll be the easiest thing to sew and it has been years since I attempted a garment more complicated than an A-line skirt.

The striped green flannel is set to turn into the aforementioned pyjamas, the blue ticking a pair of dungarees (although that will involve copying an existing pair, which is terrifying to a novice like me). The animals (Alexander Henry, purchased here) have no particular purpose, I just love them a lot. Teddy's jeans could do with patching as the endless crawling takes its toll, so maybe that rather than a whole separate thing. I also really want to make him some soft summer shorts with that butter coloured linen, but I'm thinking that the pattern and the fabric I've chosen are horribly ill matched, so I might see if I can find some rugged twill for that pattern and make some really simple linen shorts with the pyjama pattern (but, you know, shorter).

There's also a trip to a slightly-further-afield yarn store lined up for some Debbie Bliss Rialto Aran (that's a Ravelry link, go join right this very minute if you're a knitter and haven't already) to start knitting up a thick summer cardigan/coat thingie from this  Debbie Bliss book. Incidentally, that book has lots of practical, simple knits in it, if you're looking for such a thing.

So, reckon I can post every day for a week with actual progress on clothes for my boy? Ask me again on Sunday...