Most of the time, when it comes to little girl clothes, we just can't help adding more to them. We bought these cute denim jackets at Target for some girls we love with the direct intention of fancy-ing them up a bit.
We were actually sort of pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to do the appliqueing and hand embroidery on the denim. The flower is an applique included in our own rosa lea dress pattern --- we just downsized it a bit via our printer/scanner. Since the jackets are different sizes we opted to make the flowers different sizes too, since we didn't want Emerson's jacket dwarfed by an extra huge flower. We chose to splash it up a bit by choosing colors (pink and lime green) instead of one specific fabric line.
Apphia wrote the names directly on the jackets with a water soluble quilt marking pen, and Achaia just did a simple back stitch with all 6 strands of floss (Lecien's Cosmo floss is some of our very favorite!). Ta-da!
We hope our girls love them! They are on the studio counter ready to be Christmas wrapped along with some yummy Lip Smackers (and we just saw that Lip Smackers is celebrating their 40th anniversary {since 1973}... how fun is that??)
Happy Thursday! xox
Those came out so cute!!
Posted by: Monique | December 20, 2012 at 10:12 PM
MUST add Target to the list of places we need to stop on our search for stocking stuffers tomorrow after we get together with all of my dad's side of the family for Christmas (Dad has 5 brothers & sisters, My mom is an only child). I definitely think that the grandgirl needs one of these for spring. It would look so cute with Kitty's skirt (or any of your other patterns)and use the fabrics in the skirt for the applique on the jacket!
Love it!
Posted by: Debbie Brock | December 21, 2012 at 05:50 PM
I love those! Great idea and so cute!
Posted by: Laurie H | December 23, 2012 at 06:17 PM
Got mine done in time to add it to the bag of clothes for our grandgirl to open for Christmas. She has already worn hers and loves it. I dont have a pic yet, but will try to get one soon. Cute idea. Thanks!!!
Posted by: Debbie Brock | January 02, 2013 at 04:25 AM