Little Boy Basics

Sewing for a little boy was the only kind of sewing I really did for a long time {he's almost 3!}, until now with the incoming daughter. It's hard to find cool stuff for boys in the shops, and it was hard to find cute stuff online to make as well. Well it was 3 years ago anyway! Then along came Dana + Rae with their Celebrate the Boy series, which opened the door to lots of creative sewing and ideas!

I've decided to do a little series of basics for your little boy. I'll have patterns to download {for free} and tutorials, and ways to modify those patterns to tweak them to your style. We're talking underwear, pants, shirts, pyjamas, dressing gown {I already have a tutorial but there will be a pattern now!}, hoodie, board shorts as well as items for dressing up.

This isn't going to be like a month-long series, where I post every day, although hopefully every few weeks I can add to it. There'll be no promises I will be able to post as regularly as I would like, since there's a brand new baby girl entering my life in eleven weeks {ELEVEN WEEKS!}, but I will be working hard to get as much as I can ready before she is born.

Each entry in the series will include a tutorial and pattern to download for free. Free stuff is awesome. Monster is size 3 now, and a tall-getting-solid 3 year old, so these patterns will be for sizes 2-3. I'm going to start with underwear then work my way outwards. You can stay updated with all the posts I'll be making from the Little Boy Basics section on the Series page.

How does that sound?

The first in the series will be posted up tomorrow, how to make these little boy boxer briefs!