Made: Dapper Cap for My Baby Boy

Remember this?  It was one of the awesome patterns I won from that Magpie Patterns giveaway back in January.

As I vaguely mentioned in my last post, I'm in the middle of a 100 Day Craft Burn.

It is exactly what it sounds like.  I'm doing my best to make as much as I can for 100 days while only using the materials I have at my immediate disposal.

It has been really difficult to refrain from running out for more fabric, supplies, patterns . . . you have no idea how much I've been resisting.

But it's been so good for me.  The truth is, I have LOTS of amazing patterns I have not yet given a try and a small chest of fabric that is waiting to be used.  Not to mention the MOUNTAIN of t-shirts and castoff clothes I have been amassing since I realized how much I enjoy making something new from something old.  I'm going to have to do some weeding with the mountain soon though as it's taking over my living room.

Also because I'm going to have to move soon-ish and I'm not sure I really want to move all of it when I'm not even sure if I will use it all.  Have I told you lately how much I hate moving?  No, loathe.  Definitely more like LOATHE.

With that being said, I went into the ole  pattern stash and rediscovered the aforementioned little goodie: the Little Cap pattern from Leila and Ben.  My little Kee-ku has been a bit left out in the creative mama-made department lately, so it was time to do something up for him.  Nothing suitable in the stash fabric drawers for such a project, so I cut off an arm of one of Mr. Skooks cast-off sport jackets, snipped a piece off a pocket of one of his ill-fitting button-down shirts, and came up with this:

The old made new again.  It feels good.  This also marks the completion of my first ever HAT, and my first ever project that is FULLY LINED.  I have never done that before and it makes me feel like semi-professional looking sewing projects are not out of my league.  What was super sweet and easy about it too was that I was able to use the lining from the sport coat to line the inside of the hat which made it super silky soft next to Kee-ku's bald little head.

Can you believe he didn't try to rip it off his head all day?  I'm in love!

More hat-wearing for little boys . . . pass it on.



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