FREE Superman Appliqué PDF

I have something exciting to share with everybody. Like I said here, I have a handful of projects now, 2 Costumes (Superman & Super-girl), 1 Karate Uniform, another 1 traditional wear for my son. I have been trying to get a Superman Logo Appliqué. I looked at a few pictures of Superman (from the movie). and thought it would be pretty easy to draw on Paint.NET and create my own appliqué PDF and I did. Here it is. I used a picture of superman from the movie as a reference.

Superman Appliqué 

Click here to download the PDF version (Do not use scaling when you print if you want the full size version for the cape. For the logo on the body of the costume, please scale it down to 75% or adjust as per your little guy's chest measurements)

I share it hoping to help moms/grand mas/anybody out there looking for appliqué so they can make costumes for their little love ones. Please do not sell the PDF. I like to keep these thing accessible to everybody.


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Gymboree style for way less

Did anybody see this morning's Gymboree e-mailer? They have a lovely pin tucks jumper for $20 on sale.

Click here to go to the product page.

But here is a way to get the same prettiness for way less.

Lavender corduroy fabric + Pin tucks Jumper tutorial  [Link Updated...sorry]

Minimum requirement is that you already have a jumper to trace pattern or you have a basic jumper pattern available and of course you have a machine, thread, all that jazz.

A peek into a new tutorial

I've been busy trying something. SN sees me hiding in the bedroom (where my BROTHER is). He asks what am I doing all the time. Well, I've been working on a tutorial. Here is a peek. 

Now, here is a little funny story. When I started getting obsessed with sewing, and spending time at the machine more, my husband SN told me "Ever since you got your "Brother", you don't want to do anything with me" ha ha! I do have a good control over my time at the machine now. 

I should be able to complete the tute pretty soon. In the midst of the super man /super girl costumes I got another one in my hands. Karate Uniform for AN. I will post all the details of all projects as my 2 cents!

Thank you for stopping by. Have a wonderful day, everyone. 

A brave step

Has everybody started thinking about costumes for Halloween yet? My son has. He has started thinking what he wants to be for 2010 Halloween since 2009 Halloween evening. Thats how much he loves Halloween. This year AN wants to be Superman. And guess what, he wants mommy to make the costume! I confidently told him, of course I will, although the thoughts of making a wearable for him was giving me butterflies in my stomach. I didnt show a thing. I said, Superman it IS. And even worse, I said, BN is going to be Super-girl.


What have I gotten myself into! It's going to be a brave new step. I decided I am going to do it. I quickly started looking for spandex/Dancewear fabric for the unitard. They run in the $9-$11 range and you need at least 4 yards of red and blue for AN&BN. Thats at least $75 GONE. At one point, I thought of just buying it for $19.99 instead of going through the pain of making it PLUS through the pain of having ruined $75 worth of fabric. Ha ha ha..what a confidence!


Keeping my fears aside, I went to Joann to see if I can get something for the costumes. To my delight, I found polyester knits for $2.29 a yard. I quickly got 8 yards of it and ran home. Now that I have found the fabric way cheaper than what I thought it would cost, I think I am going to do it. If it doesn't work out, all I have to loose is not-so-expensive fabric. I am sure I can handle that. Yes, I am going to do it.


OK, here is the plan. If anyone else wants to join me in making costumes, come on board.






Cut pieces using existing Pajama set by:   18-Sep




Appliqué and Sew tops by:                        24-Sep





Make bottoms by :                                    25-Sep





Assemble Unitards by:                              30-Sep





Make Capes by:                                       5-Oct





Appliqué Capes by:                                  5-Oct





Make Underwear for AN/Skirt for BN by:  10-Oct





Make Boots cutout (I am just going to sew it to the unitard) by: 19-Oct

That schedule looks good. I must try to stick to this schedule. I am going to cut up the pieces in 6 days!!! I will definitely post all the steps that I do, here.

Actions shots! Finally!

OK, I finally got to try the new Jasmine dress on BN. I've never been this confident when creating a piece of wearable. Usually I have to measure every time I finish a seam :-) This time around, I finished the whole dress, placed buttons and all that final touch ups and waited 6 days (SIX DAYS!) to try it on BN. Want to know how did it go? Well...hmmm....It was peeeeeerfect! I couldn't find any thing wrong with it at all (And, I do look for faults I am telling ya, did I mention I have OCD - not medically confirmed, but I am sure I do have it!) I was just so happy! Here are some action shots. 

AN & BN 

I swear, I didn't ask her to hold that book and pose for a picture. 

Sigh...Now on to the next project.... Still have some very cute fabric left. 

A fresh start to 18 years of education

Today my son AN started the school, 1st grade at the local public school. He started going to day care centers when he was 1.5 years old, he has switched 6 schools since then, so this is going to be his very first real school experience. My husband and I are both very happy for him, at the same time, wondering what he will turn out to be 16-18 years from now? It is indeed very hard to absorb that he is out there and a lot of people are involved in shaping him to be the person he will be in 18 years. 


I remember when I was his age and until I went off to college, every single year day before the first day of school I would wait for my father to come home with handful of new stuff for school. My son? He doesn't care what new things he gets! He is interested in seeing if I buy a new toy for him. He is into toys too much. But he doesn't have nor does he want any thing fancy. All he needs is a bunch of little lego blocks and he can play all day long and he will go to bed with that, wake up in the morning, again play with those blocks. 


I've never considered buying him anything "cool" like Wii or Nintendo or PS. I have a feeling, he will become overly obsessed with it, and disciplining him will be hard. But at the same time, I think we should probably get him one of those anyway. We will see...


Anywhooooooooo....Today is THE DAY to the rest of his school life. I hope and pray he does real good in school. Can't wait to hear from him this afternoon!


Thank you for stoppping by. Have a wonderful day today. 

FINISHED: Jasmine Gathered Jumper dress with Pin tucks

Yes! After 5 nights of 5-10 minute work each, I've completed the Pin tuck Jumper dress with Fandingo flowers fabric from Paintbrush studios for BN. I dearly call it Jasmine Gathered Jumper dress with Pin tucks. Do I sound like Gymboree :-) I can't help it! I have yet to try it on BN. For those who are curious to know which pattern I used- I didnt use any patterns,traced my daughter's existing jumper and *designed* those pin tucks myself!  

Here are a few more views. Look at those buttons! My son AN chose those colors :-) He was thrilled when I approved his choices!

I loved the way it turned out. I still have a few more important projects to complete. Oh, and I made a drawstring backpack for AN. He was very happy to see me make something for him. At this moment, it's in my Sienna, otherwise I could have taken a picture to post it here. Will do that some other time!

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