25 Days of Christmas: Shirt for Andy

I have been making so many things for Christmas, Thanksgiving, gifts, and swaps that I am going to try to post every day from Dec 1-25.
This week, I will share the shirts I made for our family Christmas pictures, which are supposed to be tomorrow afternoon. When Andy was 1, I did themed shirts for the kids. Each shirt had a Santa letter to spell M E R R Y.

I thought about P E A C E or N O E L (plus a symbol for 5), but then I had a brainstorm. I would give each T-shirt "Merry Christmas" in a different language. First up, Andy's shirt: Feliz Navidad. This is a good match for Andy because he is my little dancing man. He has very dark brown eyes and curly brown hair and I can just picture him dancing and singing, "Feliz Navidad"!

I used my favorite new technique for embroidering words on t-shirts, which is to embroider on a woven fabric rectangle and stitch that to the shirt. I went with white for the shirts and the panels, so that the words are more noticeable.

The thread I used is amazing. It is a metallic Sulky machine embroidery thread. I got different colors, as you will see. It feels like dental floss and I thought it would be hard to sew, but I had no problems! The fonts I used are from Jolson's. The picture doesn't do justice to how sparkly this thread is. It almost looks like I did a really neat job with glitter glue!

Come back tomorrow to see Davy's Christmas shirt!

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Linny's Pinafore pattern is on sale now until Cyber Monday.

Make it from a fun Christmas print to top your little one's Holiday Dress!!

I am working on one right now from plaid taffeta with ruffles!

This will look darling for your family photos!!

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Vintage Knit O Graf

Knit O Graf is a pattern company that started in the 1940s. They offered patterns for knitting sweaters with designs knitted in. I couldn't find much about the history of the company, but I found a current listing for them in St. Paul, MN, so they are still in business in some capacity.
Very popular in the 40s, 50s, and 60s, their vintage patterns still fetch a good sum on ebay and etsy.

Isn't this snowman sweater adorable??

Here is a catalog page from the early 50s.

This ad declares "knitting is fun" the Knit O Graf way! I like the Humpty Dumpty pattern. The pixie next to it goes for a lot on ebay, but it isn't my favorite.

Here are some cute baby sweaters, hats, and rompers. I love the little lambs and kittens.

Their patterns weren't just for children, though! Can you imagine knitting hubby a themed golf tie for Christmas? How bout that nice burning cigarette- just what everyone wants hubby wearing! They also offered mittens, socks, hats, etc.

Even Christmas stockings were offered! These are still popular today, since I saw them listed on Ravelry!

I have lots of Thankgiving and Christmas sewing to share with you, but I am "down" with a backache, so I hope to be back to sewing, etc. soon!!