Oscar seems perfectly happy with those star knee patch pants I made for him (at least someone likes their new clothes!), so I decided to add another pair into the rotation. I’m a sucker for clouds and thought they might make cute little patches, so I went with that.
The crosshatch fabric is from the Architextures line, and I machine stitched around each cloud twice with silver metallic thread to give them “silver linings” – kinda cheesy and hardly noticeable, but it made me happy. Silver thread should get more use, if you ask me.
I actually made two pairs of these – the first pair came out looking like pajama bottoms to me….which, admittedly, isn’t such a big deal for a six month old, but since they take all of 45 minutes to make, I decided to try again with the black Carolina chambray. Here’s the blue pajama/hospital scrub version, which I think is destined to be given away:
The pattern for both pairs is the same as the star pants – Rae’s free Basic Newborn Pant pattern, with 1.25 inches of added length. I added a contrast cuff to these, and a fold-over cuff to the gray pair, which increased the overall length by another inch or so.
So yeah, I like adding knee patches to stuff. Boy sewing isn’t so bad after all.
I couldn’t get him to crack a smile for any of these photos, so I’m settling on this one in case anyone was hoping for a face shot. Kind of a serious, just-woke-up look, but at least he’s sitting still and not complaining that he hates his new pants. Good boy.
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Both pairs are so cute on him! The clouds really make these and the silver lining is so clever. : )
Adorable on every level : )
I love these pants! I think I’ll have to go make a pair for my little girl now!
So cute! I love the idea of clouds for the knee patches.:)
I’ve just made a pair of similar pants with knee patches too for my son – I’m learning that it’s the small touches on boy clothes that makes them cute since the range of prints and styles are more limited than girls clothes. I love the colours you’ve used, soft and lovey but still so right for a little boy
Both pairs are absolutely adorable! Clouds should definitely be the new “mustaches” or “chevron”. So cute!
I love the silver lining clouds! So clever. I’m looking foreward to more of your “boy sewing”
oh gosh, he is so adorable!!! and the pants! I love how sweet they are. The silver thread is perfect, even if only you notice. 🙂 And those toes!!! I miss baby toes!
I’m baking baby number three, son number two and I feel completely underwhelmed with sewing ideas for him. I was the same for my first born son and instead of sewing things for him sewed for every little girl in the neighbourhood 😉 Then I had my daughter and was set for a while haha! I’m hoping to get a bit more inspired this time around and these pants are great!
They are so adorable. Cloud knee patches with silver thread has been on my to do list for a little while too 🙂 Silver thread is my favourite and I love idea of using the crosshatch print.
Fantastic!! I’m a huge fan of cloud motifs and was actually thinking of making K a t-shirt with cloud elbow patches. Oscar is such a cutie, and I think the silver lining is awesome!
Oh, he look so much like Lila! Love that last picture:)
Those pants are so adorable – leave it to you to find a way to make the basic boy pant uber cool. And that contrast cuff – love it! Along with the silver lining thread . . . queen of details, you are:)
Those are the sweetest pants ever! Love them 🙂
Those pants
I adore this, what a cute idea! I even love the ones that look like PJ’s. 😀
I never commented on these! I’m fired. But they are sooooo cute, those clouds are killing me and it’s so great those newborn pants have lasted him so long! I overheard Carolyn F. say at QM that the crosshatch was inspired by security envelopes, which is kinda awesome.
I love your blog !!!! I sewed for my grandson until he was 5 and my granddaughter until she was about 11. Now she is in musical theater at age 16 and I get to make costumes !! I just finished 5 outfits for “Amy” in Little Women and it was so much fun!!!! I used several Oliver +1 patterns for her when she was little and loved them. Keep sewing — I love seeing what you are sewing !!