DIY Game Day Attire Here in the south, we go all out for game day. Is this dressy enough for tailgating? is a question that more than a few southern girls have asked. And although we have been allowed to go a bit more casual lately (The University of Georgia used to have a dress code that females were not allowed in the stadium if they weren t in a dress), it is still very important to be in a cute outfit. With so many options out there for us these days, I thought I would just give you a little inspiration for your next game day. My family and I at an FSU game last year Last year, I made the girls simple pillow case dresses for game day.
My mom, my daughters and I at the FSU game this weekend in our matching chevron. (disclaimer: excuse our hair, it was raining!) This year my mom, my daughters and I decided to go with chevron for game day. We got the chevron fabric to make our skirts and the girls shorts from Fabric.com. I used McCalls M5419 to make the shorts and cut up an old t-shirt and made it into a halter top for my shirt. For the skirts that mom and I are wearing, we did not use a pattern. I just measured the length I wanted and added 5 inches. I cut the fabric WOF (width of fabric), because I knew I wanted my skirt to have a full gather, sewed a casing for the elastic at the top using 2 inches, and I used 3 inches for the bottom hem. I have found that woven fabrics wear better with the extra weight that a wider hem creates.
My Friend Mande and her adorable family tailgating at the UGA game. My friend Mande and her family are big UGA fans and she does some fantastic machine embroidery. Not only are her daughters
dresses adorable, she embroidered a G on her sash and made a cute UGA shirt for her brand new cousin to wear to her first game. Mande s daughters with the legendary Hershel Walker
I love how machine embroidery can make a good outfit into a great outfit! This sweet baby s first game at 2 weeks old
There are tons of team specific embroidery designs out there; just search for your team and machine embroidery designs and you will get some great options. Sweet baby Phoebe really for the Tennessee Vols game The Sulky Embroidery Club has a great Football Player that you could customize with your teams colors & name and they even have a design for those of you who aren t as excited about football season.
Just change the colors to your favorite team s colors!
For the less enthusiastic fan Have you made any game day outfits? If so, send me a picture! I will post them on Facebook, Pinterest and the blog throughout football season. Happy Sewing! Embroidery Applique to Jazz Up T-shirts I love football. I know more about college football than most sports fanatics and I am counting the days (16 days) until the first Florida State University game of the season (My alma mater. Go Noles!). I also live in a Friday Night Lights town. Our little town in north Georgia is absolutely crazy about our high school football team. People buy season tickets to the games whether they have kids in high school or not. We all love to cheer on the Hurricanes (We just say Canes). We
begin our football indoctrination once our kids starts preschool. Every Friday of the school year is Canes Spirit Day so having new embroidered and appliqued Canes t-shirts is a must for my girls. I have to say, I love this trend of embroidering on a cute fabric first and then cutting out the embroidery raw edge and putting it on what you would like. Check out this cute hat that my friend wore to the pool the other day.
For the girls new t-shirts that I got on clearance last year, I used some cute purple chevron fabric that I had left over from making another project. I fused Sulky Soft n Sheer Extra to the back of the fabric and hooped it. I used Sulky 40 wt Poly Deco thread in Mimosa Yellow to embroider Canes
onto the fabric. I then cut the piece out with pinking shears and I attached it to the shirt with a satin stitch. I almost always do my satin stitch free motion for a couple of reasons. One, I don t like the satin stitch on my regular sewing machine. It always seems to come out uneven. If I am controlling the speed, then I get the density that I want. Two, my embroidery machine has a beautiful satin stitch, but I am too lazy to convert the machine back and forth from embroidery to regular sewing to use it.
After the applique is done, I used a little ribbon to tie up the sleeves on the shirt for some added flair. Now the girls are ready for Canes Spirit Fridays at school!