It’s my grandson’s birthday soon and I wanted to make him a top to supplement his other gifts which are dinosaur themed, so the top needed a dinosaur!
I found a fun graphic which I imported into Cricut Design Space and added a shaped background layer to it, then printed it on to a fusible sheet and cut it out with the Cricut. All that remained was to make the top, which is the free Brindile & Twig Ringer Tee, such a great pattern!
I made him a matching card.
I liked this so much I wanted to make tops for my granddaughters, so went back to Creative Fabrica where I found this design and found one for the girls. I gave the graphic the same treatment, and printed out three of them.
I used the same pattern for the two older girls, and used fabric which was given to me by the wonderful ladies at the Australian Sewing Guild, Western Suburbs sewing group. A big box was delivered to my doorstep and the fabric for all these tops was in it, plus some more which I will be using soon.
My first versions are white as I want to check the fit. My granddaughters are heavily into matching so I made identical tops, although I had to use different white fabrics.
They look the same size but the front one is smaller, as is the graphic.
I also made one for my littlest granddaughter, but this time used the Kwik-Sew’s Sewing for Baby book, and chose the side opening neck pattern. I also added in the long sleeves.
It worked out really well and I used a small graphic on the front, although in retrospect I could have made the graphic bigger. The top is for a 6-12month old baby so should be perfect for winter as a layering piece and for spring as the weather warms up.
I added some size labels and also a “Made by Granny” label. I found a dinosaur font and a unicorn font so used them where appropriate.
I realise they are hard to see so here’s a zoomed in version
the dinosaurs are much more subtle
For the dinosaur top I decided to sew my label onto some tape and then handstitch it on as the neck seam is quite thick.
I was thrilled to be sent these photos of Miss G wearing her tee shirt on a recent trip to Rottnest Island.
I had to include this cute one of her petting a quokka.
This was taken when her dad took the tee shirts home. It was immediately tried on.
Here is a little video for your delight. Miss E playing with her puppy. She was previously a bit fearful of dogs, but Pepper has fixed that! This game went on for several minutes, but you get the idea.
