Gobble Monogram Shirts

UPDATE:  Some new photos of all three in their turkey shirts…….

My grandsons’ Christmas outfits are on the back burner. This past week, I was tied up taking care of Alastair across the state.  His mother has been called into work at her job as a computer engineer for a full week, rather than her regularly scheduled two days, so I did daycare instead of holiday outfits.

I returned home Thurs. night, fully intending to plow full steam ahead on Christmas clothes, but now we are having an impromptu early Thanksgiving Saturday.

Ryan and Shelly were already on board because it is a regular football Saturday. We called Rebecca and Harvey Friday at dinner time to ask them to come.  They piled into the car and arrived late that evening with sweet Alastair sound asleep.  Having a baby tucked in the nursery crib is just one more thing to be thankful for.

It will be just like the real thing, though on a slightly smaller scale, as I have just begun cooking.  But with turkey, dressing, lots of trimmings, pumpkin and mincemeat pies and a day rife with college football games, the only difference will be that we are not celebrating on the 4th Thursday of November.

Both our son and daughter are scheduled to spend Thanksgiving Day with in-laws so I had nothing planned.  When we decided Friday afternoon to gather the family for this early celebration of our abundance of blessings, I couldn’t resist whipping up some casual shirts for all three. 

Part of my motivation was this darling alphabet found at www.planetapplique.com   Their designs are all charming, but I was especially taken with the bean stitch on top of the satin letter outline.  So  that’s what the children got. If there had been more time, it would have been nice to add a small pumpkin or two at the base of the letters.  But there were pies to bake,  cranberry orange relish to be made, and more to do.

Laurel’s outfit is a shirt and brown leggings.  Friday afternoon, in my haste to find an unadorned girl’s white  shirt, I grabbed up this one.  It had a satin  ribbon rosebud tacked at the neck, but I knew it would be easy to remove.  But when I got home, I discovered that silver metallic ribbon was stitched on  the cuffs.

Certain as I was that the white satin rose was not a good mix with a turkey monogram, I was even more certain that this sleeve trim had to go.  The silver ribbon and the plain hem were cut away and lettuce-leafed in brown on my ever-faithful and beloved Babylock Evolve serger.

They are all here now and I’ve gotten pictures of my three little turkeys together.  Now, I’ve got to get the pies out of the oven.