The phrase you are looking for is "hand-me-downs."
We just spent a week at Lilies. I didn't actually "make" Alexander any garb. He has one tunic his Auntie Gabe made for him before he was born that he has been wearing all winter (she based it on one of the Woven into the Earth child gowns). It was huge on him for his first demo last August and is still a little big, but a brooch at the neck and rolled up sleeves have made it work.
Then Gunner & Gabrielle passed on a bag of garb Anne had outgrown to Tormod for Cian. He went through it and pulled out the things Cian could wear and passed the rest on to me. I don't think Gabrielle actually made any of it; it had been hand-me-downs to here. I'll admit some of it was pretty awful. However, a bit of time with my serger cleaning up seams, then a bit more time adding some trim and I had two more tunics I'd let my son be seen in. There are three more in the bag that are still to large for him, but I'll probably take them to Pensic.
Duchess Marion suggested a "cheat" I didn't mind using (seeing as it's baby garb we're talking about): buy a couple cheap oversize T-shirts and put trim around the bottom. I did two of those and they actually look pretty good. So that brought me up to five tunics for a week of camping. I figured I could wash things out and leave it at that.
Then AT Lilies, I meet a woman with two kids, one about 18 months older than mine. She also gave me two tunics hers had outgrown. She said that they had been through both her kids and at least one before that. That gave me seven tunics for a week of camping, which is perfect!
And, of course, once my kids are done with them, I will pass this largess on to someone else.
I still want to make another tunic for him, on the pattern Gabe used, just because I bought enough of a nice blue cotton-linen to make a set of garb for all three of us.
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Hand-Me-Downs
Date: 2010-06-21 03:39 am (UTC)We just spent a week at Lilies. I didn't actually "make" Alexander any garb. He has one tunic his Auntie Gabe made for him before he was born that he has been wearing all winter (she based it on one of the Woven into the Earth child gowns). It was huge on him for his first demo last August and is still a little big, but a brooch at the neck and rolled up sleeves have made it work.
Then Gunner & Gabrielle passed on a bag of garb Anne had outgrown to Tormod for Cian. He went through it and pulled out the things Cian could wear and passed the rest on to me. I don't think Gabrielle actually made any of it; it had been hand-me-downs to here. I'll admit some of it was pretty awful. However, a bit of time with my serger cleaning up seams, then a bit more time adding some trim and I had two more tunics I'd let my son be seen in. There are three more in the bag that are still to large for him, but I'll probably take them to Pensic.
Duchess Marion suggested a "cheat" I didn't mind using (seeing as it's baby garb we're talking about): buy a couple cheap oversize T-shirts and put trim around the bottom. I did two of those and they actually look pretty good. So that brought me up to five tunics for a week of camping. I figured I could wash things out and leave it at that.
Then AT Lilies, I meet a woman with two kids, one about 18 months older than mine. She also gave me two tunics hers had outgrown. She said that they had been through both her kids and at least one before that. That gave me seven tunics for a week of camping, which is perfect!
And, of course, once my kids are done with them, I will pass this largess on to someone else.
I still want to make another tunic for him, on the pattern Gabe used, just because I bought enough of a nice blue cotton-linen to make a set of garb for all three of us.