If you don't win it, make it!

You may remember a few posts ago I entered a giveaway for a toddler apron. Well, the winner hasn't been posted (at least not last time I checked) and maybe I'm a pessimist thinking I didn't win because I broke down and made one similar, so this is "inspired by Grosgrain". I didn't use any really good fabric though. I just used what was in my stash, stuff I can live without that I bought cheap. Of course, this would be cuter with the dress in the giveaway, but for now it's got me satisfied. And it fits big boy too (not that he'd be caught dead wearing it, he did humor me to try it on for me) so I know it'll fit her for a while. I also made the shirt baby girl is wearing. It was easy enough, but next time I'll leave a smidgen more room for the elastic, I had to use a REALLY small safety pin to thread it through and that was a bit of a pain in the rear. And again, I used stash fabric, nothing fancy. I'm too much of a nervous Nelly to just jump in with expensive fabric for a new project. And it's proabably a good thing too, this shirt was a tad on the short side. Next time I might make it a dress. Anyhow, here's the apron and shirt:





The back:

And, here you can't see it, but she's have a utensil battle with her brother, he has a wooden spoon: