This project was definitely one of those "fly by the seat of your pants" ones. Before I started all I knew was that I wanted to experiment with paint and patterns and that these onesies would be modeled by an adorable one year-old named Amelia.

Supplies:

Pack of onesies

Tape

Paint

Fabric

Embroidery Floss

I had bought that little spray bottle with the idea that I could do a spray paint style with regular acrylic paints that had been watered down, but I never got around to that so maybe next time!

Here you can see I started using the tape to mark off areas that I wanted to paint.

Then I just dove right in! This type of tape did not result in the sharpest of edges, so if that's the look you are going for, I had read that contact paper works much better. The way I did it had a watercolor effect that I ended up really liking.

I love polka dots (what girl doesn't?!) so I knew one of them had to be spotted and used a sponge that I cut into a circle to achieve that effect.

Just dip in the paint and dab on the fabric. Again, not very crisp lines but that ended up working well with the others I made.

Here are the four all together. Very cute as is, but I wanted to add a little something more.

So I picked up a shirt on clearance at Kohls and got to cutting it up.

I wanted to make heart patches to sew onto the onesies so I made a few heart patterns until I was happy with the results.

Then I just traced them with a pen on the opposite side of the fabric and cut them out. I made sure to pick a material that I knew wouldn't end up in a frayed mess, so this jersey knit was perfect.