Trousers

…at least in this family. I was gathering up fabrics for Onni’s Autumn clothing and they seem to be very green this year. I must have a green period nowadays or then there are just so many adorable green fabrics that I cannot resist ;)

I found this lovely green corduroy on our holiday in Finland and I just had to buy a piece of it. It reminds me of forests and moss and the smell of rain in Autumn. I ended up using it for corduroy trousers for Onni. This time I put an elastic in the waist and on the ankles. I wanted to keep the trousers quite simple but added pockets at the sides for some detail. Turquoise buttons brighten up the trousers nicely.

Overalls would have been also so cute out of this fabric, but since Onni has just learned to go to the potty himself, trousers are easier to use. Emmi from Hippu blog made overalls out of this fabric, and they are so adorable. Go and check out her blog, it’s full of cool stuff!

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It was not easy to get action pictures of the little man but I just have to add this one. The latest computer nerd of the family playing with his laptop. More fun than posing for mom.. :D

Greetings from the holiday!

We are spending our holiday weeks in hot Finland and are definitely enjoying the heat and the sunshine. I finally got the chance to take action pictures of Onni’s Retrobug trousers. These yellow and brown teddybear pants are size 68cm trousers with ribbing on ankles but they are perfect shorts for size 92cm. Onni loves to wear them, because they are nice and thin and therefore comfortable in the heat.

The blog will be a bit quiet next few weeks, but I will get back in action in August. Have a lovely summertime everyone!

I have had these pairs undone for weeks and now I finally got to finish them. The fabric is soft and thin recycled jeans and the pockets are from old curtains and a pillow case. I really like this combination of dark soft jeans with bright and colourful pockets and ribbing. The size of the yellow jeans is about 74-80cm as long trousers and 92cm as shorts or capri pants. The green ones are bit shorter, I’d say 68 – 74cm and 86cm as shorts. I will add action pictures later when I can snap few images of Onni trying them out. ;)

p.s. You can find them in Retrobug Shop.

I found a pair of lovely green corduroy trousers in the flee market and re-made them to fit my son. I appliqued a sleeping bunny on the leg. (Surprise surprise! ;) The green stripes on the bunny fitted just perfectly with the colour  of the trousers. I was thinking about adding ribbing in the legs but ended up for elastic band, which can be removed later. The trousers are quite short and wide, so I think they’ll be good as shorts or capri pants when Onni grows a bit. Just what I like: clothes that can be worn longer than one season. And recycled as well! ;)

I have been making some jeans shorts for Onni for the Summer. I think thin jeans trousers and shorts are the best for him, because he loves to sit on the sandbox and crawl around in the garden, so jeans is nice and firm material for his trousers. I also found a pair of trousers I had made for him a while ago. They were too short for him, but worked great as shorts. That is the great thing about these trousers, they last a long time. First as trousers, later as shorts. I made back pockets as a finishing touch. I mean, jeans are no jeans without back pockets, right? ;)

We are off to a holiday tomorrow. I just can’t wait!

Have a great weekend everyone,

My son has a lot of yellow and brown and orange clothes. I tend to combine these colours endlessly even if I try to stay away from them. So today I just had to make him brown trousers to match all those shirts and sweaters. I wanted to keep them plain, so it is easy to combine them with lot of different coloured clothes. Naturally I had to add something cute in them and ended up making hedgehog knee pads out of cute brown and white hippo fabric.

The trousers are brown stretchy corduroy (previously a women’s skirt) and has ribs on waist and ankles. I made these ones long and fairly wide, so they there is definitely room to grow into them. They will most likely be torn apart before they get too small. :D

* Edit: Here’s an action picture of the Little Man with his Hedgehog Trousers.