Nesting with Happy Together

Hello readers of Delia Creates! This is Jessica from Happy Together. Isn’t it so exciting that she’s having a baby? And that the baby is a girl?!?! I have two girls myself and love it. In fact, one of them is still pretty small. I decided to share a project that benefits her play time.

I had a pair of socks with little animals on them that were so cute and fun for baby since she is loving her feet right now. I decided to make some more socks similar to them for her.

These are basically appliques from old stained onesies with crinkly plastic inside. Then they are sewn on the sock to be worn during playtime.

As you can tell by the pics, the girl just didn’t want to do anything but try to get her crinkle toes when she had them on!

Not even big sister coming up on the bed to play distracted her from the task at hand.

Let’s start with what you will need. Grab some clothing with appliques or graphics that you like. Make sure they the “picture” is big enough for this. You don’t want to put something too small on these socks just in case baby was able to get it off (ps….speaking of that, I recommend that these be worn when supervised if concerned about it coming off).

Then cut out the “picture”, making sure to leave as much room as possible around it for sewing. Also, make sure to cut out another piece of the clothing for the back. So for one pair of socks, you should have 4 pieces.

Place the back piece down right side up and place the “picture” piece on top wrong side down. Then sew around the image, but leaving a space large enough to turn the piece right side out. I tried to sew as close to the image as possible.

Then turn them right side out.

Next, grab some crinkly plastic. I used some “trash” from food items we had. Just don’t use sharp plastic, ok? If those sun chip bags are still very loud, they would work great! lol

Cut the plastic into small pieces that will fit inside and stuff it in.

Then turn in the sides of the opening and sew around the whole crinkle piece with a small stitch so there is no way this thing is coming open.

Then place it on the top of the sock and sew in place. If sewing by hand, make sure to sew it on super good. You could also use the sewing machine to tack it in place at a few spots. Another thing is you could even use some fabric glue right on the middle bottom, put it on the sock, then once dry, tack it on around the edges. Fabric glue is no joke! Trust me. I’ve used it plenty of times only to realize I would like to remove what I glued. I have never been able to get anything off that was glued with fabric glue.

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Isn’t this so fun? I like how using existing appliques makes it look so professional. I just know my baby is going to love having a pair of these.

Thank you for nesting with me today Jessica!