hi mama's I'm Shen and welcome back to my channel at mama banana
where I share mom hacks, tips and reviews on products made just for mamas.
so today
I'm going to show you a really cool mom hack. In today's tutorial, I'll show you how to make
your own vest extender using an old vest for your baby. Watch
to the end of the video for an even cooler hack on how to
make an extendable vest extender! if you'd like to see more content like this
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When picking the vest we want to
cut up you want to make sure it's one that's of good quality you need the
material to be kind of thick so that would be hard wearing. you're going to
put in the time to stitch it up you want to make sure you can use it over
and over again as long as possible and then as well as that this is the most
important thing, in my trial there's at least three different size poppers okay
so when you pick the vest that you want to use to make the vest extender, you want to test it on a good few of
your vests to make sure that the snaps fit together.
okay so you'll assess how long you want your first extender to be, I only need a
slight bit of extension but you need to leave about three
centimeters additional fabric so that you can overlap the top & bottom for
stitching purposes okay
so I've just drawn some grid of lines here basically this is where I'm going
to cut out the fabric the edge here here and here and then within the edges here
I've drawn a line about centimeters in so that's where I will be stitching
These lines act as a guide to help you stitch straight.
I'm also going to draw a line across where I'm going to stitch the fabric together.
Another tip, to cut straight without jagged edges is to fold the fabric along the line and cut.
perfection look how straight that is it's very hard to get a clean cut
when you cut straight like that but when you fold the fabric it's so much
neater. okay so then separate this and you overlap on stitch now I don't
have pins for tacking with okay so I'm going to tack this together with a
sewing needle.
I'm gonna give the sides another trim before I start sewing.
another tip for you okay as I'm taking out my tread I have lip balm in my
sewing kit this is an old crappy lip balm I don't like that I use to
coat all my treads. by doing this it's just makes it less likely for your
tread knot. so now I'm going to
sew along the lines here and when I get to the edges I'm gonna sew along the
lines that I've marked here to keep my stitching straight.
and here is the
finished vest extender in action so I just started off over here. I did a very
simple quick stitch called a tacking stitch, just to
keep everything in place and then I hemmed the edges up and down
back across and up and down and back up and tied it off here and then I hid
the stitch up in here. there we go
perfect for cloth diapering mamas and also for any mamas to help get that bit
more out of the baby vests that they love and now for the mom hack on how to make an
extendable vest extender. the hack is to make two or more vest extenders and attach them
to each other. so my daughter is playing with this one right now but I have a
vest extender attached to the top of her vest and one at the bottom and now I
just connect these. if I can't do this one handed you'll still get the idea. see the
things you can do when you're a mother. and that's how you make an
extendable vest extender. if you have the time you can make these vest extenders
really tight together so that you can have something really customised.
So if you have 3 or 4 of these, you can slowly make your
vest grow longer and longer.
Ideas for the scraps. So with the remaining top here, if you have a sewing machine
you can tuck this in and then turn it into a
little t-shirt for baby or a teddy bear, or
maybe turn it into a teddy bear itself. Let me know in the comments down below if you
have any ideas what to do with this left over top half. it's just it's too cute
to waste.
While on the topic of vests I want to share this really cool vest with you. so
my firstborn Hailey she was super colicky she did not like
being handled and it was always a nightmare trying to dress her so we had
these fold-over vests. so when we go to dress her, we'd have her onesie or baby
grow opened out and placed down and then we have the vest opened & laid out on top
like this so that we could just pop her on top. Pop her little arms through so
we could just fold this over snap these buttons here fold this over
snap the buttons and she'd be dressed we didn't have to lift her to put her head
over she absolutely hated that and cried so much. so these vests were a lifesaver.
if this is something that you would find helpful I will try to find it later in
Amazon and include a product link in my description box down below.
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