Embroidered pajamas for the holidays #12Projects12Months
This past August, on a whim, I purchased an embroidery machine. (<–affiliate link) I had big plans for this machine….and I didn’t even take it out of the box until the end of October. I made my first applique just over a week ago. The poor machine deserves to be used.
I underestimated how tough embroidery can be. I can make cute designs, but if I screw up, it takes a lot to get the stitches out. And I’ve made a lot of mistakes just in the first design. My gingerbread boy long sleeve shirt.
What you can’t see is that when I was sewing him onto the shirt, the machine actually sewed just outside of the fabric on the top left….so he’s glued with fabric glue in that area.
And now? Now I’ve embroidered a pair of Christmas pajamas for my son. I’m super excited about them. (Oh, and on that same whim in August, I ordered a lot of blank pajama sets, just for embroidery.) The one thing I realized as I was in the middle of this project is that it would have looked better on the green pajama set. (Never fear. I have those too. He may have new pajamas for every night in December.)
My boy loves the reindeer and totally got that the design was a reindeer when I showed it to him. That makes me happy.
If you’re in the market for some cute pajamas for your child this Christmas – or a fun shirt! – contact me. I’m hoping to have things listed in my Etsy shop by the end of this week too. (And I’ll be stopping orders at a reasonable time to spend holiday time with the family. It’s only fair to all of us!)
Do you have a tradition involving Christmas pajamas? We haven’t, but I’m thinking this may be the start of a new tradition.
This is my TWELFTH project in my quest to complete 12 by the end of the year! See project 1 | project 2 | project 3 | project 4 | project 5 | project 6 | project 7 | project 8 | project 9 | project 10 | project 11 in previous posts.
So cute! The reindeer makes me smile! You will have one well dressed child for bed!
So Stinkin’ cute! I want to get a matching set for my boys! I love them!
Dude! You have an Etsy shop? How didn’t I know that? Or is it totally new?
These are super cute. I should send you some plain solid PJs for my kiddo (if I could find any!) and have you make her some. 🙂
Those are so cute! I am glad you are having a Etsy shop too! We haven’t done the matching pj’s yet, but I always think those pics are adorable!
Aww these are really good. Definitely a good idea to put up an Etsy!
Wow, How cute! I LOVE the red reindeer ones. So cute, you are super talented!
Those are really cute. We all get new PJs for Christmas morning will have to consider this
I love the reindeer pajamas, and I think it looks great on the red! The gingerbread one is cute too. I have always wanted to learn to embroider.
Adorable, I’m not very good with sewing or embroidery, but you did a great job!
How cute are those! I will definitely check out your Etsy shop, and am glad your embroidery machine is getting put to use!
Those are so cute. I just unpacked my sewing machine from our move and can not wait to start sewing again.
Those are too cute – I love the reindeer, I would love that on a jumper for myself 🙂 x
Those PJ’s are SO cute! I love making custom gifts for the holidays!
Oh wow, how cute! Those look better than the ones in the stores!
That’s adorable!!
These are so cute! My family always wears new PJ’s on New Years Eve – it’s been our tradition for about 10 years!
The PJ’s turned out super cute. I would love to have an embroidery machine. I will make sure I check out your Etsy shop.
I love the gingerbread man, it’s such a cute design!
Oh how adorable. I would love to have a machine. But I think I would put our initials on everything!
I have always wanted a machine! I think it would be so awesome to learn.
Those are totally cute. My daughter would love to have one of these jammies. She loves Reindeer
Those pajamas are adorable. I would love an embroidery machine. We always give a pair of pajamas to the kids on Christmas eve.
My kids always get pj’s for Christmas. There’s not really a tradiition though.
Those are SO cute!! The past few years I have developed a thing for gingerbread stuff (not eating it, but like gingerbread houses and gingerbread men designs on clothes and such). Funny how we develop new “obsessions” …. lol. My MIL bought an embroidery machine a number of years ago and now that she is retired I hope she will start using it. She is very talented when it comes to that stuff!
You did an amazing job with that pj’s. I have never tried embroidering before and don’t think I have the mindset to actually do it.
Those jammies are so dang cute! I would totally wear them!
These are so cute. I wish I could sew I would so do this for my boys.
Super cute!