The wrong trousers
This has elements of moneysaving from last week too.

Right now I'm in the middle of making my poor unsuspecting child a pair of overtrousers. The weather is getting (slowly) colder, the childminder asked me to wrap her up warm, eBay was looking a bit sparse, so this morning I cycled to Ikea, ate their 99p cooked breakfast with free coffee, and picked up a fleece blanket for £1.59 (on a giftcard that still had a couple of quid on it).

I've just sewn the legs and crotch and am about to do the waistband. Catfaceceilidhbaby is going to be resplendent in homemade pale blue fleece trousers. In a few years time I hope to make some outfits for the whole family, Von Trapp style, out of some old curtains, then we'll stand around singing before fleeing from some Nazis.

This is what having kids is all about - not a physical demonstration of your union or moulding a human being or any of that crap - it's about dressing them up in stuff that you hated when you were a kid and perpetuating the cycle of shit fashion. Don't feel too sorry for her - when she's an adult she can make a fortune writing misery lit along the lines of "Please mummy, no, not the sewing machine" and "They put a bowl on my head and cut my hair".
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 13:29, 9 replies)

I trust
you will be joining 2 mittens together on a long piece of string, and threading them through the arms of her coat.
(username failed moderation, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 13:33, closed)

Oh hell yeah.

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 13:34, closed)

Bonus points for making the string 6 inches shorter than it needs to be.

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Thu 17 Nov 2011, 17:18, closed)

Part of me thinks this is quite nifty.
Most of me hopes that she goes to a school with a robust anti-bullying policy.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 13:37, closed)

Finished.
Started with this:

and 40 minutes later finished with this:


And there's enough fabric left for another three pairs. Lucky girl.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 13:53, closed)

Hah. Not bad.
I put patches on my toddlers jeans a few months ago, when he was still crawling.

Not sure what the trick is, but sewing at right angles on a trouser leg seems, er, pretty tricky with a sewing machine.

Still, they look the dogs bollocks, wonky stitching and all.
(username failed moderation, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 14:25, closed)

Haaaaaaahahahahahaha awesome.
I had a pair of Rupert The Bear-like dungarees as a kid - I'm pretty sure my mum is of a similar mindset.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 14:46, closed)

we were so poor as kids we couldnt even afford legs

( fluffybunnykiller Is feasting on the clitoris of life, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 21:28, closed)

Very good.
I like this very much. You know you can easily turn men's Y-Fronts into children't school hats, right?
( browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Fri 18 Nov 2011, 16:11, closed)

can this be done for example if say johnathan king was still wearing his?

( fluffybunnykiller Is feasting on the clitoris of life, Fri 18 Nov 2011, 17:46, closed)