A minor alteration...

So we have kid, just in case you missed that. And kids ( particularly toddlers and babies) need like a gajillion clothes, by the time you have enough to not make laundry not ridiculous, and enough for emergency changes, and so on and so forth. And then they grow, and need more clothes because their old ones won't even go over their little (or big) noggins.
Luckily, with Miss E, we were given clothes. Lots and lots of clothes. Oodles of them came from baby showers (hey thanks if you gave us some!). But we were given bags and bags of them from one of Michael's great-aunts who had a co-worker who was just going to get rid of them. If she's reading this, thanks to her too! And those bags have been a life-saver. Mostly because they were bigger sizes, so we are just now getting to the ends of them, and E is moving in to 24months/2T. But there was one in particular that I just had to share with you all.

We pulled this cute pair of pjs out of the stack the other night to put them on Miss E. But there was a major glitch, so we had to get different ones. Can you spot it? Let me show you a close -up.

See it now? The lower picture you can't see the seam as well, but it is a 90 degree angle. As you can see from the top picture, there isn't exactly a lot of wiggle room in the ankle area. I don't know about yours, but my toddler has chubby feet. Chubbier than her cute little ankles. And asking those chubby little feet to get through that narrow opening, and make a hard ninety-degree turn, just was not going to happen. At all.  If you scroll back up and look at the first and second pictures, you can see how obviously big the footies are compared to the leg. So I don't know why it didn't occur to whomever designed this one, that the ankles just weren't going to work. When I pulled the sleeper out, I couldn't imagine how it looked so new, after going through the wardrobe of one other toddler. Now I know. I didn't post a picture of it, but the bottom of the feet had the little rubber grippies, and you could tell they had never ever been walked on. So, um, I fixed it:

One swift snip with my sewing scissors to each leg, and voila! No more ridiculous angle to deal with! Hopefully this fix will be enough to get this on the girl, even if I do have to put socks on her to keep her little piggies warm. We'll try again tonight. I'm also hooping that since it's a knit, those now unfinished seams will not unravel when we wash it.
I know this sleeper looks really long, and skinny, but it is. Hopefully since my kid is long and skinny it will work with my, uh, fix. If not, at least I am out nothing, since I paid nothing for it, and don't even know who it came from, I can feel no guilt about it. I at least tried to make it work.