Fort Building Kit
AKA:The Present for Which Your Kids' Friends Will Love You
I made a few of these for birthday parties this past month, and Wyatt was climbing in my lap wanting to know where his was! A really fun part of this project was that Ava was able to help me sew on the ties.
I started with this tutorial at Saltwater Kids because I just could not see myself making all the bias tape that some other tutorials called for. Also, using old t-shirts to make the ties makes the project more of an up-cycle, and, well, cheaper. Also also (yep, two), the t-shirt ties are stretchy and easier for little hands to tie.
I used the printable label found here at ARMOMMY.
I reworked the pillowcase to make a drawstring bag for the whole kit.
To make the pillowcase bag a little less sloppy looking, I added a simple gusset on the bottom. Sometimes people who sew throw words like "simple" around to mean a task that will only take an hour, but this gusset is seriously simple. It takes maybe a few minute. You just sew up each corner, simple!
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| supplies from the dollar store |
I made a few of these for birthday parties this past month, and Wyatt was climbing in my lap wanting to know where his was! A really fun part of this project was that Ava was able to help me sew on the ties.
I started with this tutorial at Saltwater Kids because I just could not see myself making all the bias tape that some other tutorials called for. Also, using old t-shirts to make the ties makes the project more of an up-cycle, and, well, cheaper. Also also (yep, two), the t-shirt ties are stretchy and easier for little hands to tie.
I used the printable label found here at ARMOMMY.
I reworked the pillowcase to make a drawstring bag for the whole kit.
To make the pillowcase bag a little less sloppy looking, I added a simple gusset on the bottom. Sometimes people who sew throw words like "simple" around to mean a task that will only take an hour, but this gusset is seriously simple. It takes maybe a few minute. You just sew up each corner, simple!
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| all done! |
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