for the new baby mama. heart from bunks

when lan visited 2 weekends ago, she mentioned that lori's baby shower would be this past weekend. the fam had been trying to convince me to join them on a family biking trip in dc and my friend michelle had been trying to convince me to see her in her play (she plays the lead!), with 3 fantastic reasons, i was in. yet ANOTHER road trip to dc (did i ever really leave?)! now lori is my friend for whom i made the mei tai. however, bunks had yet to present his gift to the unborn babe, so he put his cage cleaning food provider to work. (sigh, he's such a slave driver.)

"weekend sewing" has this adorable baby boy shirt (kai's shirt) and pants (the huck finn pants) that i'd been dying to try out. for the shirt, i used the same light blue uber-wrinkly cotton blend that i used for the bodice of lan's heidi dress. i hate how wrinkly it is, but i figured boys can tolerate wrinkliness. hehe. the black actually has skinny white pinstripes and is of a stiffer 100% cotton fabric. i didn't want to make an all light blue shirt, as it would look like pj's, so i added the black for the collar and front pocket, and made the huck finn pants from it as well. i topstitched the light blue fabric with black thread and the black fabric with light blue thread. (yes, i'm meticulous. are you surprised?) the best feature of this shirt:

i learned how to make buttonholes with a sewing machine!!! eeee!!! sooo much easier than hand binding the raw edges when i do it by hand. usually it takes me an hr to make 3 buttonholes. think of how many men's shirts i can make now!!! here's a view of all of them. beauty, no? i know nothing about sizing for babies (remember how jeremy's son's fc ceviche jersey was way too big for him?), so i made an adjustable waistband for the pants. the elastic (hidden underneath the light blue basted x) has 4 buttonholes and a button, so that lori could expand the pants as her babe grows. i know, i'm brilliant! (ok, maybe the pattern called for this feature...) i have no normal wrapping paper, so i stuck with my usual brown paper packaging (tied up with string! yay sound of music reference!)! it was sooo good to see you lori!