Sewing: Kindy Sheet Set

I've (finally) started to get my sewing mojo back!

A couple of weeks ago I went on a fabric-shopping trip with the lovely Leonie. We managed to knock off three fabric shops (and it wasn't just a pit stop in and out, trust me!!) in a morning.

I also managed to de-stash some furnishing fabric in Leonie's direction....which was great as I definitely filled that space in my fabric storage with my purchases from the day :)

The cheapest find for me was the lovely red gingham I picked up for $3.95 a metre. Perfect to jazz up the Kindy sheets that I had to put together for Charlotte's Kindy Sheet Set! And I've still got lots left over....so if Baby O is a girl there might be a cute pinafore in the making for next summer :)

The Sheet Set was super easy to put together. I had an old winter-weight sheet in my fabric stash which I made into a large bottom sheet and a shorter top sheet. Sewn together at the bottom with elastic across each corner of the bottom sheet so that Charlotte can easily hook it over her wee mattress at Kindy.

Then I popped a strip of the gingham across the top of the top sheet and (when I get back to Spotlight to get more vilosofix!!) I'll put a wee appliqué on that panel, too.

Next was a pillow. I have a lot of batting in my fabric stash so I whipped up a small case out of some left-over summer-weight sheet I had hanging around and stuffed it so it was nice and plump. Then put together a cute wee gingham pillow case with an appliquéd "C" on it. I had *just* enough vilosofix to squeeze the C on!

Last was a bag to put it all in - just a simple drawstring bag in the red gingham. Again - appliqué to follow...

Voilà! She's so pleased with it (which is all that you can ask for when you're hand-making stuff for your kids!) and it is completely different from anyone else's in her class so (theoretically) it should be hard to lose!