The Little Gentleman

My sister-in-law just got married and since I was a bridesmaid, I wanted to have my son dressed in equally formal attire. So my friend Monica, who was also in the wedding and has a baby, and I made two bowties from the scraps of the bridesmaid dress:

We used this tutorial to do it: http://oneyounglove.com/2012/02/17/tiny-bow-ties-for-tiny-gentlemen-tutorial/

It was pretty simple and it took about an hour of actual work, I believe, though with us each nursing our sons and trying to keep them entertained, I think it was more like two hours total that we were at it.

Here's how they turned out:

Then, separately, we each worked on the attachment portion of the project. Monica did hers according to the tutorial (with two snaps on the back of the bow that would snap to a shirt), but I decided to attach the bow to a ribbon so that the shirt wouldn't have the snaps on it and could be used separately. I think it would have been better to use elastic rather than ribbon, but it worked out alright. 

Finally, we wore our matching dress and bowtie on the big day!