Izzy and Oliver

 A friend of mine has a baby girl who just turned one.  True to form, this child will get her gift late from me.  She is getting a modified pair of Oliver +S Puppet Show shorts and Izzy top.

 The top is made from Cotton and Steel fabric and the shorts are an upcycled men's chambray shirt.

 The green rectangle is my attempt at a tag in the back.  Someday I'll pay for labels with my name on them.  Every time I look on Etsy I get overwhelmed with the choices and so choose nothing.

Worrisome Plackets

This pattern has been bouncing around in my pattern box for two or more years.  Every time I go to cut them out, I chicken out.  What's been stopping me?  Plackets, or the fly.  I just don't get them.

 Finally, I gathered up the courage and bought enough yardage to make 4 pairs.  So far two are done.  I'm not a huge fan of flat felled seams either but they do look nice.  The red pair was my first and I used flat felled seams.  The second I cheated and used my serger to finish seams.  For the next two I'll slow down and do the flat felled seams.  They do make a nicer pair of shorts.