A couple of days ago was the 1 year anniversary of Threads by Caroline. To celebrate this first successful year I've prepared a gift for all of you, a free pattern: Ester and Ebbe. This is a top for boys and girls that can be sewn with short or long sleeves. You can also choose to sew with flutters on the shoulders and/or a stylish chest pocket.It's available in sizes 74-146 (approx. 9 months - 11 years), and designed for light to medium weight knit fabrics with at least 30% stretch. My free patterns are available to download from my newsletters, so go ahead and subscribe today to get your free PDF pattern. And more pictures of Ester & Ebbe can be found on instagram #tcesterandebbe.

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Need craft or project ideas for older boys? My 11 year old (almost 12) helped me choose this collection of projects, so these are things that are “boy approved.” When we say this, of course, we’re not meaning that girls wouldn’t like these ideas or shouldn’t do them! It’s simply a collection of things that […]

I have a bunch of boys at my house. That puts me in the ideal position for designing boy patterns, doesn't it? I absolutely love it. The only problem though, is that my baby boys keep growing up! This little guy, for example, is turning three years old tomorrow! How can that be?! And he is all about superheroes right now. So with his superhero birthday coming up I thought it was absolutely vital for him to get a shiny new mommy-made cape. He is pleased! And you can be too because today we are sharing the pattern with you! Our super cape is reversible, sturdy, fits up to adult size necks, and it has several ways to safely close it without being a strangulation hazard. (Ribbon ties scare me!) My little guy can put his cape on and off by himself, no phone booths needed! To make your own super cape, here's what you will need: Pattern pieces for CKC Super Cape (click here to print) 1 yard fabric Your choice of closure (snaps, velcro, buttons, etc) Scissors Pins Instructions: First you will print the pattern pieces (link above) and tape them together. Cut out the cape piece. Fold your fabric in half width-wise, and then again in half width-wise, so it looks like the photo above. This will give us two folds on the left side, one inside the other. Lay the pattern piece on the fold and pin in place. Cut around the curves. This will give us two cape pieces. Note: If you want your cape to be different colors front and back, you can repeat with your second fabric color (1 yard) and it will give you two additional cape pieces. You can now make two reversible capes! I chose to do red on one side and black on the other, for my boys' two favorite superheroes. I was planning to put a symbol on the red side until my older son pointed out that superman has a symbol on his chest, not on his cape. Good point. Let's continue... Place your two cape layers on a flat surface with right sides facing. Pin in place all around the edges. Then sew along the pinned edges and curves, leaving a 4" opening at the bottom, as shown in yellow in the photo above. Clip the curves close to the stitching and then turn the cape right side out, using a dowel or chopstick to get into the small straps. Iron until the cape is nice and crisp around all the edges. Pin the 4" opening shut. Next we are going to top stitch all around the cape by sewing 1/8" from the edge. If you used two different colors of fabric like I did, you may want to use one color as your top thread and the other color as your bobbin thread. I used red on top and black in the bobbin. (Of course you could use all one color of thread if you want contrast stitching on the opposite side.) Finally we will mark where we want our closures on the neck straps to be and then attach them. You can use buttons, velcro, magnetic closures, etc. My favorite thing to use is Kam Snaps (see our tutorial here) because they are super quick and I love the look. Whatever closure you decide to use, please remember that for safety's sake it is good for the cape to "tear off" if necessary, in case it gets snagged while the child is wearing it. We don't want playtime to become a strangulation hazard! Look at this, I even had some of my cool Batman snaps left over to use on the black side of his cape! Happy superhero boys make for happy mamas! Now all that's left for us to do is try to keep up with them... Let's Create! ~ Kristen

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How to Make a Duct Tape Wallet – Step-by-Step Instructions! We’ve been really into duct tape at our house lately! First it was velcro duct tape bracelets, and now Aidan and I have moved on to duct tape wallets. There are a lot of tutorials out there for duct tape wallets, but I thought I […]

Okay, AH-dorable, right? So I will get back to these in just a sec. So as Christmas approaches my brain goes into overload about gifts for others. My handmade gift to-do list pretty much is on overload. Last year I made a couple of handmade gifts...here, here, here, and oh yeah here...and this year once again I just couldn't help myself. So this week I am going to share some handmade gift ideas with you. Gifts of all kinds, for all different people on your list. I am going to do a little holiday version of my Project Series. Project Handmade Christmas Presents. I am going to start off the week with my Hoodie-a-saurus. Now, first off, I can't take the credit for the original idea of this super cute sweatshirt. I came across the original idea, where else...pinterest. I fell in love with the idea right away and with several dinosaur loving boys in our life, I knew it was a must. I knew that I wanted to change it up just a bit. I wanted it to have a little more of a rocker embellished look. I am so happy with how they turned out and I know our nephews will be too. So I thought I would give a little run down on how I took her tutorial, tweaked it a bit and made my own version. Here is what you will need: cheap sweatshirt ( I got mine at The Mart) felt, about 1/4 yard for 1 toddler sized sweatshirt iron on stabilizer coordinating felt or fabric for patch coordinating thread coordinating embroidery floss First step is to work on the scales. The easiest way to do this is to first determine how big you want the scales to be. I liked mine a little bigger. Draw a triangle in that size. Fold your stabilizer up just enough to allow for your triangle to fit. The folded edge will be the bottom of your triangle. The point will go to the edge you folded up. Keep folding and tracing as many triangles as you will need to go from the back of the sweatshirt up to the front of the hood. The 24 month sweatshirt took 7 and the 3T took 8. Cut out your triangles, not cutting on the fold. They will then open up to this diamond shape. Iron each diamond onto the felt you want. Follow the instructions that come with the stabilizer. Once all of the diamonds are ironed on, cut out leaving about 1/4" edge all around the stabilizer. Pin your diamonds with felt side down onto the back of your sweatshirt. Make sure measure what the middle of the back is. Pin first one just above the waist part. Follow up, point to point all the way up the hood. If there is a middle seam in the hood, the middle of the diamond should line up with it. Pinning over the hood can be a bit tricky...just breath, be patient, and do the best you can. To attach the scales, start at the diamond by the waist. Sew up the middle of each scale. Again, sewing on the hood is tricky. Go slowly. Again breath and be patient. I did have to rip out stitches on the blue hoodie once because I was trying to speed demon my way through. Once the scales are sewn on. Fold in half so that you sandwich the stabilizer in. Pin together. Then with coordinating thread sew each scale closed. Starting at one bottom point going over the top of the triangle and stopping at the other bottom point. Repeat with all the scales. Now you can stop here...but I just couldn't. I had to add some umph. First I googled dinosaur silhouettes. I picked out a simple one. One that I wouldn't pull out my hair cutting out or sewing on. This guy was the winner. For the olive hoodie I used this orange felt. The glory of using felt is that you don't have to finish the edges. You can simply cut out the shape and sew it right on. No applique type techniques needed. Then you can easy peasy add some rocker embellishment to the pocket with some coordinating embroidery floss. I simply just looped several times around the edge of one spot on each pocket with a needle. The beauty is that it can look a little messy. I mean they are supposed to be rocker dinosaurs, right? So the blue hoodie was a little more difficult. I chose to use regular fabric for that dinosaur cut out. Which meant I had to either blanket stitch it on or satin stitch. The bad news is that I am not great at either...but because I was going for a rocker look, I knew I could purposely have it be a little rough around the edges...quite literally. Now the hoodie or hoodies are all done. I loved both of mine immediately. Not sure Littlest did. In fact during the photo shoot he was a little grumpy about the blue one. So then I put on the olive one. Happy it seems in his cousins hoodie-a-saurus. So it only seemed... I soon had a photo session catastrophe on my hands. If the hoodies weren't his, he didn't want them on. So I took my prized handmade Christmas present off him before he could shed tears and probably snot on them. Now they just need to be lovingly packaged and wrapped up for our dino-loving nephews. I can't wait till they try them on. Do you have any dinosaur fanatics in your life? I am pretty sure they would love to have one of these! I am told my 19 year-old sister would even like one...hahaha...maybe someday K. Linking here: Made By You Monday: Skip to My Lou Making Monday Marvelous: C.R.A.F.T. Craft-O-Maniac Mondays: Craft-O-Maniac We Did it Wednesday: Sew Much Ado Show and Tell Wednesday: Blue Cricket Design

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Check out this awesome frugal tip that Melissa sent in for how to make your own homemade baby yogurt melts! “My son LOVES Gerber’s yogurt melts, but they are pretty expensive (around $3 for a small 1-oz bag) and when I read the ingredients, I was shocked to see the second ingredient is sugar. I decided to try making them myself.” What You’ll Need: Your baby’s favorite fruit – fresh is best, but frozen works too Whole milk Greek yogurt – about twice as much yogurt as you have fruit Parchment paper Baking sheet Freezer space How-To: SPECIAL CONTENT: Check out our posts on how to thrive during COVID-19! Line your baking sheet with parchment paper and make sure you have enough room in your freezer for the baking sheet. Puree the fruit with about 1/4 of the yogurt in a blender or food processor until smooth. Pour into a mixing bowl and fold in the rest of the yogurt. Then pour the mixture into a small piping bag or a ziplock bag with the corner cut. Make little blobs on the baking sheet and pop them into the freezer for about 3 hours or until solid. Quickly and carefully peel the blobs off the parchment paper and toss them in a freezer-safe plastic container or baggie. Freeze up to a month, but they probably won’t last that long! Melissa says, “I don’t have a freeze-dry machine, so I couldn’t replicate the shelf-stability of the Gerber product. But I’m a stay-at-home mom and most of the time, it’s not an issue – I pull a few from the container in the freezer and plop them on his tray. My son eats them so fast, they never have a chance to melt. This is hands down his favorite snack!” What a fantastic tip! Thanks, Melissa!

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