At Easter my daughter-in-law spotted a romper pattern she liked and asked if I could make it. I ran out of time to make it for Easter and this is part of a belated birthday present! Luckily at 12 months he doesn’t know any different!!

The pattern is by Brindelle and Twig, it’s called Summer Romper and it’s a traditional romper style with a gathered waist around the bottom. What my DIL didn’t realised is that it’s for stretch fabrics and really she was thinking of wovens. I decided that with the elasticated bits, I could just make it one size bigger and make it in cotton. He’s still in 9-12 month clothes so I made the 12 to 18 months instead. It’s a pdf pattern which I like for children’s clothes as I can reprint them in a larger size as they grow.

I had some Peter Rabbit cotton left from a previous romper as well as some fat quarters from the same range, it is lovely and soft to touch, I decided to use it to line the romper fully and use a plain cotton for the outside. I used a white background to line the front and a blue/green one for the bottom. Fully lining it did mean I had a few head scratching moments with areas like elastic casing round the legs, it’s not perfectly neat round there but I’m sure Hugo won’t complain.

It went together surprisingly quickly – I’d have cut out and sewn it in an afternoon if I had enough of the right size of elastic! The pattern went together easily and the instructions were nice and clear. I also checked with mum about buttons or poppers as the pattern calls for poppers for safety reasons. Mum wanted buttons so they would stay fastened when he was moving round…so they are very securely stitched on!! I’m particularly pleased with the buttons, I fussy-cut a Peter Rabbit head and covered the buttons, I think they look very cute.

It’s lovely having little ones to sew for again, they’re quick makes, don’t take much fabric and so cute too!