"Sailing into Summer Sewing"

Well, summer is offically a week away, but the temperatures here in Oklahoma are already in the 90's each afternoon! Ugh! But stay in the air conditioning and get some great stitching completed!  I recently worked on a sweet baby shirt and diaper cover for a baby shower of a friend of mine. Since the new mom wasn't going to find out ahead of time the sex of the baby, I had to do some thinking about what I could stitch and be "gender friendly". So I chose the Creations by Michie' pattern #109 Infant Shirt & Diaper Cover. I wanted to make it in cotton pique, so I chose white. Then how to embellish? My friend and her husband travel to Florida a lot, so I looked in my stash of embroidery designs and found a fun sailboat, some dolphins, a couple of starfish and an anchor. I also wanted a bit more color, so I chose turquoise check spaghetti bias and wondered if I could add it to the collar without faggotting. Since the spaghetti bias stretches, it worked around the small Peter Pan collar very nicely. I just used a tiny hand blindstitch to secure around the colllar. I did shadow work embroidery, putting the starfish on each collar front, the sailboat on one side of the lower front and the dolphins & anchor on the front of the diaper cover. I used the small turquoise square buttons down the front. I thought it turned out quite nice, cool and comfortable for summer. Give this pattern a try the next time you need a quick, easy project for a summer baby!