More Hats and Novelty Bibs

I made a few more things for the baby shower for Joey's teacher.  I have already given her a hat, sweater, and frog toy, and I have the cuddly pal blankie for her, which I already showed before.  I just get carried away with baby things.  I love to make them.  I decided to make some hats and some of my novelty bibs.  They are so easy to do, and I love them.  I couldn't decide which material I liked best, so I just used all my choices for the hats.  I intended on only making two or three, but I liked all these materials, so I made six.

The bug and crocodile bibs.

A bear and a blue turtle.

These hats are all made of flannel, except the middle one. It is stretchy knit.

All the blue hats are flannel.

I also was able to get a model for the robes that I converted.  Here is Isamu helping me out.

Graduation robe from front.

Graduation robe from back.

Rocky style boxing robe from front with hood up.

Rocky robe from back with hood up.  The boys' names will be put on the white area with stick on letters.

Rocky robe from back with hood down.

Rocky robe from front with hood down.

I had to convert twenty robes.  It was quite a project, and after finishing about fifteen of them, I finally had an easy way to attach the red yoke part that covered the white yokes of the graduation gowns.  It was hard to get the inside liner part lined up with the top side so that both sides were caught in the stitching.  I was finally in a good groove by the time I had finished all of them.  The hood that I made for the first gown was a little too pointed and looked like a Klu Klux Klan robe.  I had to round them off a bit to make them look more like a boxer robe.  I was able to utilize material from another robe to make the additions to the converted robe.  I did it in such a way that I was able to use things that were already hemmed. I used the hem of the sleeves to make the yokes along the back side to divide the yoke so that some was red and some was white.  I used the hems along the place where I took out the zippers to make the belts.  I used the hems along the bottom of the gown to make the hem of the hood and the belt loops.  It made it so that I had a lot of left over material, but it sure simplified the sewing project and made it possible for me to complete all of them in much less time.