Valentine's Shirt

For Christmas, I had this really cute dress for Sarah that my mom bought her.  But it needed a shirt to go underneath it.  I really wanted a black shirt because the dress was light beige.  I looked around and finally found a shirt at the Gap for $2.99 with 40% off.  Score!  It was a Halloween onesie and looked like this.

Pretty cute and worked great for what I needed it for.

I hate wasting stuff.  Even though this shirt was stinkin' cheap, I wanted to get as much use out of it as I could.  So, I thought I could easily cover up that pumpkin with something else.  I chose a heart for Valentine's day because pretty soon, this isn't going to fit her anymore!

So, I got some fabric and attached some interfacing to it to give it some stability.

I cut out a heart shape and pinned it over the pumpkin.

Then, I sewed a really tight zig zag stich all around the heart.  And voila, an adorable shirt for an adorable little girl!

I call this, and freezer paper stenciling, the poor man's version of embroidery.  {wink wink}  Turned out perfectly for a simple Valentine's shirt!

Here are our outtakes.  I guess I took too many pictures and left her unattended for too long.  Poor gal can't sit up for that long!  And she wanted that ice cream cone!

Thanks for reading!