Last year for Christmas, I got Quinn a fakey toy medical kit with a stethoscope and stuff and she likes pretending that she is Doc McStuffins. What better way to make this pretend play more fun than to make her a little doctors coat?!
I found this mens shirt at the thrift store, for my favorite price of $0.50, and thought it would make a great addition to her fakey items while she pretended to be a doctor!
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| It was hard to pull her away from playing to take this picture.. Can't you tell? Lol |
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| She's such a flippin' ham. It makes the whole process way more fun! |
At this point, Quinn had no idea what we were doing. All she knew was that her shirt had really long sleeves. "Mama, my arms are gone," she kept yelling at me, while waving her arms around. She just could not get over it and would not stop moving.
So, I turned the shirt inside out, took some very rough measurements, and then sent Quinn to go color for the rest of the refashion.
I knew straight away that the pocket would have to go:
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| Maybe we'll see you later, huge pocket that's in the way. |
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| I'll just set you aside for now. |
With the pocket gone, I placed the shirt as neatly as I could on the kitchen counter and started to pin where I'd need to sew it.
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| I didn't realize the shirt was so huge until I got to this part. |
I know, I pinned the wrong way, but I'm still new to sewing and I really wanted to make sure I was going to sew this in a straight line. I don't have any fabric chalk or fancy stuff, so dorky pinning would have to do.
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| Sewing it and stuff. |
Now onto the bottom hem. I took a rough estimate on the length when I still had a model at my disposal, so I cut the bottom off, folded over the hem.
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| The bottom hem. |
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| Sewing it up! |
Now onto the sleeves. I thought I might adjust the arm seams up to Quinn's actual arms, but quickly decided I was too lazy to do that. So, I just kept the arm seams at their original location and adjusted the sleeves to fit on her little arms. All I had to do to the sleeves was cut them down to size, make a little cuff..
... and sew them up. I didn't take a picture of that though. I just want to say how tough it was to sew the tiny little hole! I don't know how people who sew kids clothes do it!! I thought I was going to mess the whole thing up!!
And, folks, that's it!!! All that's left to do is steal Quinn away from her coloring books (which wasn't too hard surprisingly). She was such a doll and wanted to pose for A TON for pictures, so here are about 500 of the best shots:
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| I told her to put her black boots on, but she had to have her pink cowgirl boots! |
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| She wouldn't pose for a normal picture. |
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| At least her poses were all a bit different. |
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| Who's been letting her watch "Saturday Night Fever?!" Lol |
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| My favorite one, with a thumbs up in it! |
She saw the small coat and knew exactly what was going on. She said, "Mama, did you make me that white coat because you love me?!" Haha of course!!!
After the modeling shoot, I thought she'd want to take it off, but she kept it on the rest of the day! She took it off to sleep and then grabbed it this morning to wear it again.
Oh a couple more things:
- I have a toybox and several buckets and baskets of toys hanging around the house and for the life of me, I couldn't find the fakey medical stuff anywhere!! I'm guessing most of it is under the couch!!
- I planned to use the pocket I set aside for something on this refashion, but it proved to be too big. I'll save it for some other project, I guess.
- I really need to super remind myself to buy some pinking shears!! Every time I start a project, I realize I need them but as soon as I'm done my project, I totally forget I need them!
- I love this coat on Quinn so much that I think I might make another one for Mitchell!!
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