Sibling Shirt Sets

Here are a couple of recent sibling shirt sets I have done. First for my niece and new nephew:

The Big Sister and Little Mister designs are both from Embroitique. I added their names with 8CP's High 5

 And this set was for a friend back home:

They may look familiar, but actually it's my first time using this exact set... MCA's VINTAGE sibling set. I love the look and the quick stitchout of vintage applique letters, I'm so excited she released this version! I added their name with MCA's Angelina.

Happy Birthday, Emily!

Today we attended a first birthday party, and my gift was a bib for Emily to wear while eating her cake!

Pink ladybug theme, so I merged this together. GG Designs' Chubby Wubby 1, MCA's Ladybug, Jolson's Hand Lettered Floss Stitch font, and one of the flutter trails from That's Sew Grammy's Just Bug Trails set (which is a nice bean stitch, I ended up stitching 2 or 3 times to match the heaving stitching of the floss stitch font).

 

Welcoming Baby Caden

Caden's grandmother has been keeping me busy! Baby shower was today, so now I can show my work:

First, a set of sibling shirts:

The big brother and little brother patches are both from Applique Momma. I added their name with Jolson's Architect. I think I have finally figured out a fabric/thread/font combo that I LOVE with this design. Yay!

Matching monogrammed shirts using 8CP's Baseball Stitch Applique alphabet (oh, and the bib, too!)

And a couple burp cloths. I was told to do whatever I wanted, so I used it as an opportunity to finally use some cute designs that have been sitting in my stash! The Puppy Patch is from Applique Cafe -- isn't this precious?! I added his name with 8CP's Bobby.

And MCA's Jungle Jungle Applique Alphabet. Looking forward to using this again in larger sizes!

Whew! Add to that an additional burp cloth from Michelle, and I did a lot of sewing for little Caden recently. THEN I had to come up with my own gift. EKK! What's left?? Well, I'll save that for a separate blog post. :)
Michelle requested 8CP's Split Banner Applique Font

Sibling Shirts, Fireman and Princess style!

A friend of mine just had a baby girl last week. Here are the sibling shirts I made for her:

I love these sibling designs from MCA Applique. After using them on a recent set I knew I wanted to give them a go again, but with different little add-ons to personalize it even further. Jonathan is WAY into firefighters. And I heard through the grapevine that my friend is decorating Emily's nursery with a princess theme. So I contacted Melissa at MCA to see if she was interested in digitizing a fire helmet and crown to include in her "toppers" series. Boy did she deliver, and fast!! Don't hesitate to ask a digitizer if you have an idea -- they may run with it faster than you can search for a decent alternative! Thank you again Melissa, they turned out awesome!!

Jonathan's design has the Fireman's Hat merged on top. I used MCA's Angelina font to add his name.

Emily's design has the Princess Crown merged on top. And notice I used the same fabric? I've been anxious to try this fabric on a boy/girl sibling set, pulling out the blue for the boy and the pink for the girl. I think it works!

Sibling Shirts

Ann asked me to make a set of sibling shirts for her niece who has two boys and a new baby girl. She gave me freedom to do what I wanted, so I took the opportunity to finally use MCA Applique's Big/Lil Bro/Sis design set. Every.Single.Time I see these designs in use by other embroiderers I fall in love with it all over again!

The designs come with "lil'" and "big" already there, and you can purchase MCA's Angelina font to add the names. However, 8 Claws and a Paw has it's own version of this same font (Thin Lizzy), so I personally didn't purchase MCA's, but used what I already owned. A quick word of caution... 8CP's version is thin (hence the name!) so if you want the thickness of the name to match the thickness in MCA's design, you'll need to adjust the pull compensation in your software with 8CP's, or buy MCA's.
The siblings designs don't come with extra little add ons. MCA sells several applique designs appropriate for that so you can truly customize the shirts for each sibling set. However I was looking for some sort of critter that was appropriate for a 6 year old boy and I settled on Applique Momma's Bug Mini design for the boys and the Ladybug Mini for Alexis. They turned out pretty cute!

Daddy's Taking Us to the Zoo Tomorrow!

Well, actually Daddy took them to the zoo last weekend. Mommy is really behind on blogging. :)

 A weekend trip to Jacksonville gave us the opportunity to go to the zoo, which gave me the opportunity to use these lime shirts sitting in my stash AND some MCA Appliqués that I recently purchased:

 Aren't these designs cute? It was my first time stitching MCA designs (I think) and they stitched very well. The challenging part was deciding what fabrics to use. I was pretty excited to find three different shades of yellow/tan with tone-on-tone dots... They worked great for both designs!

I picked MCA's Lion for Dashiell. He's been asking for a lion shirt for a while and this is the cutest design I know of. :) The mane is raggy, and now that I've washed it twice it's frayed nicely, super cute! I added the phrase "There's a Lion in the Room!" because Dashiell goes around saying it often. We have no idea why or where he got it from, but it's really funny, and we wanted to document this fun stage.

Here he is roaring with the lions, in front of a glass wall. That's as close as you can get to the lions, and I'm ok with that. ;)

Annaliese chose MCA's Giraffe Pair. Wouldn't this design make a great Big Sister shirt?? She wasn't down with that idea though. She wanted me to add "Two heads are better than one" but I opted to leave it off (for space reasons). She's brought it up a couple times since, so I may be rehooping the shirt... The one request I did permit was leaving the smile off of the little one. I'm not sure why she thought it was cuter without.

And here she is up close and personal feeding a giraffe. It was really cool!