Where can you find a v-neck for a baby? You can’t, so you have to make it.
I had to sew the neckline twice, because the first time I tried to do it with a zig-zag stitch on the old sewing machine, and it didn’t have enough stretch to get over Bean’s melon. This is the top half of the outfit with the plaid pants that also didn’t fit on the first try. Good thing babies don’t have body issues yet, because my boy would’ve been feeling like a fatso with an oversized head when in reality it’s just Mommy’s sewing skills (or lack thereof) at fault.
So I put on my big girl panties and went to the serger – it still scares me on curved/small/detailed sewing because it cuts your seam allowance while you sew, so if you goof it’s either really hard or impossible to fix. Luckily, I made it work, whew! Now to redo the plaid pants, and make Bean model the whole outfit.
Below is a picture of how I modified the regular crew neck pattern for a v-neck. I just fold under the little flap on the left from the crew neck that sticks out beyond the v-neck line. And should I decide I want a crew neck – same pattern, I just use a tracing wheel to trace the crew neck line instead.Â
And finally, look what I found on my table as I was cleaning up:
JudyB
I have a very old Stretch-and-Sew pattern for baby clothing that includes a super-easy tee, but if I didn’t have that, I’d be lost on where to find a baby tee pattern. Anyone else remember the Anne Person method of sewing with knits? I had a sizeable archive of Stretch-and-Sew patterns, gave about 1/2 of them to a friend and told her to return them after she was done or when I started sewing again. She gave them away! I was devastated! Those patterns are so hard to find now and expensive to buy used. Luckily I kept my tee patterns. Best, JudyB