With Celebrate the Boy coming up this February 15 over at Dana Made It and Made by Rae, I put on my thinking cap a while back to see if I could come up with something for their fun-filled boy month. I knew I really wanted to try to tackle suspenders, especially once I found this already pre-dyed elastic over at my favorite little Ruffle Fabric shop, who knew?!! I was stoked!
What can I say…umm, I tried? I really did try! But no matter what I do, whenever I try to make something for a boy, it always comes out girly. I just can’t help myself! Somewhere along the line I must start thinking girly thoughts or something, because I always make the left turn at Albuquerque.
Either way, I do love these suspenders!
The fun vibrant colors, with cute little fabric accents.
And surprisingly enough, my girls love them too! I thought I was going to have to fight them just for the photo shoot, instead they fought each other over who got what colors!
For the free tutorial to make your own suspenders, click HERE. And don’t worry, I am sure you can ‘boyify’ them up (my word, love it). I think I am the only one with a brain-block on boy stuff. Lol
We had a blast running around the kids section of the library taking these photos, the toughest part was keeping Madeline from replacing all of the books in the wrong place! Yikes!
After all, someone needs to replace Larry King now that he is gone…
These suspenders were featured at:
They are cute. To make them more masculine I would just use different fabrics. I just got some great tape measure fabric that SCREAMS suspenders.
I feel like I wore suspenders back in the day. What a fun idea.
These are adorable!! Have a wonderful Monday!!
xoxo
Marni @ Sassy Sites!
Oh my gosh I love these! Thanks – I’m totally going to make some for my boy AND girl!
These are precious!
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I think these are just so fun! I wanted to let you know that I submitted this to the M&T Spotlight: http://www.makeandtakes.com/spotlight
i;m pretty sure that my entire family is going to be decked out in suspenders…very very soon.
so cute!
These are STINKING Adorable! LOVE them!
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Those are VERY cute. I’d never have thought of making suspenders. They look so cute on the kids. 🙂
they are lovely. wish coloured elastic was easier to find for a reasonable price in uk! i made my own out of fabric instead
Hello! Can you tell me where you were able to buy the colored elastic? I can’t find it anywhere.
I actually found it in an on-line store called http://www.rufflefabric.com/
I hope this helps, and thanks so much!