Posts Tagged ‘ shorts ’
So simple and happy. Colorblocking = cheery + uses up scraps.
Bet those pockets are fake. Must remember to topstitch more of his clothes to make them look more professional. That little tie’s probably sewn on, too. Not spending $8/pair on everyday baby shorts, not when I have patterns and stashes.
Can you tell which are handmade and which are from the store?
Shorts! Lots.
Stash khaki fabric used to mock up a Christmas outfit. Liked them so much, I yanked the turquoise basting and restitched for real.
Camouflage cotton cut from an old skirt of mine that’s now too short.
Denim skulls also cut from a skirt from the same wonderful pattern, so also too short. The denim was tricky – I ran out of fabric so had to craft a waistband from denim scraps lined with light black cotton. But it worked.
Not pictured: Navy terry scraps from a nephew’s baby romper. These have a slightly wider waistband — I didn’t fold the hem under inside but instead zig zagged it down to reduce some of the bulk of the fabric. The knit won’t unravel.
All have grosgrain tags stitched into the back of the waistband so it’s easy to tell back from front.
In sum, you work an assembly line. You do lots of the same thing in a sitting.
I traced and cut four pairs of boxers in one sitting. Same pattern, same markers, same lengths of cotton in four designs. Traced then cut. Then pinned them all.
Sometimes, the assembly line is the way to go.
Now it’s time for a bunch of sewing. Two piles make it all go faster.
White thread on the left, black on the right:
White part of baby shirt, blue on white Star Wars boxers, green on white shamrock boxers:
Marvel comic printed boxers, camouflage baby shorts, denim baby shorts. Green boxers — that one actually needs its own thread.
Right now, the machine is threaded with black. I ran a bunch of seams already.
No rushing, but step by step. This is how I have to manage with so little sewing time at a time.
My parents ended up spending that whole week with us. Only downside to that, and I do mean the only, was that I got done zero sewing that whole week.
I am late in getting my upcycled projects made:
Shorts finally cut from camo skirt.
Same shorts from skullie denim skirt. This was a really tight squeeze, so the inside of the waistband might have to come from something else.
And while at it, more shorts cut from an old remnant of navy terrycloth I had bought to make a romper for a now-8-year-old nephew.
Pile of t-shirts and sweatshirts to cannibalize remain in a pile in the sewing room. Mr. B could use some decent sweats…
Mr. Baby was going to wear shorts for Christmas. This was certain. Ideally, they’d have flat fronts.
Flat-front baby pants, though, are hard to come by. So by December, I turned to eBay for this out of print number, Simplicity 2907, thinking these might actually be flat front. Or maybe it’d be easy enough to make the fronts flat using the technique from the above freebie since these pants are made from four pieces instead of two.
I had to try them out. I pulled some red corduroy from the stash that came years ago from the Ravenswood Manor yard sale.
I love them.
I cut the pattern as directed. When the instructions wanted the tiny pocket edges hemmed, I decided to line them with some cotton scraps so they’d have smoother, cleaner lines.
Lining in general was a smart move. But choosing black and white polka dots for the red pants was perhaps a misstep. Really cute print but shows more than I like.
Carefully topstitched the pockets, the leg seams, the hems.
My mister wonders if they’re too much for Mr. Baby to pull off? From what I know about this small person, there’s no way. Thinking to put them on him with a white printed shirt and some sweet black hightop Chuck Taylors.
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