How To Change Pants Into A Skirt

It’s cliché, but it’s also quite true: How fast do children grow up?! And that, of course, means that they will quickly shed their clothes. Read: How to Change Pants into Dresses And That’s Why Every Spring, I Go Through Their Wardrobe And Move It All Pants are too short or pants with holes above the knee (anyone with a hyperactive penis knows what I mean) and turn them into shorts or skirts.Turning trousers into shorts is quite simple: cut off the bottom of the leg and hem it. The only real difference in turning pants into a skirt is that you have to open the foot seams and then close them. It’s so satisfying to create these adorable petite dresses, perfect for playing around and turning around in the summer. And it only takes about 15 minutes because the belt is already made! Yah!Does your child- or do you- have pants that are growing up their legs as they get older? Well then, grab your scissors and we’ll fix them right here and now! Now I show you how to turn pants into a skirt!This is a pair of my daughter’s pants, it actually started out as overalls that I wear it back into pants. She wears them often until they start to get too short. Before I get started, I want to make it clear that this tutorial works great for any light fabric. I do not recommend this method for thicker fabrics, such as jeans, as the seams will not be properly flat. Here I will share a tutorial to sew a jean skirt from jeans, here is another method.1. Cut Open the inner leg seam, as indicated by the arrows. If your pants have elastic at the bottom, like these pants do, cut it off first.Iron the fabric is nice and flat.Here is a close-up of the crotch area. You can see that I cut from foot to foot.2. Spin the pants contradictory and unfold the fabric. Line up the trimmed edges from step #1 so that two pieces of legs are placed face to faceand pin them together (black circle on the upper left). Use a fabric marker, such as a tailor’s chalk, to draw a line from the existing seam to the trimmed edges (red oval left above). Make sure the transition goes smoothly. may From the existing seam to the end of the leg, sew along the line you drew (red oval in the upper right). Then sew again along the raw fabric edges with a zig-zag stitch or a set of buckles to keep them from fraying.It is very important for the new seam to smooth transition from the old seam. In the image above, #1 is the original seam of the garment, #2 is the top of my new seam, and #3 is the top of my skipped seam (to prevent fabric fraying). You can see that my new seam (#2) starts inside the original seam allowance and works its way up to the old and new seams. make a straight line.3. Repeat step #2 with other raw edges on the other side. Press flat seams. Turn the shirt right side out and you’ll see it’s already a dress! Of course the bottom looks very ragged, so let’s fix that.4. Try on the dress on your model and marked with safety pin Where you want the bottom of the skirt to fall. Fold the skirt in half, making sure to align the different layers of the waistband and side hem and keep the latch securely in the top layer, and cut across 3 cm below safety latch. Read more: How to repaint a deck with peeling paint5. Turn the skirt inside out again and hem It is by folding the bottom edge up 1 cm, ironing, folding 2 cm, ironing and sewing in place with a seam of just under 2 cm. an easy trick to do it perfectly without having to constantly measure!)And that’s it! Let your model try on her new dress and love to see how happy she is with it!Have you checked the watch? I bet it won’t take you much longer 15 minutes! So much satisfaction in so little time! My daughter loves little dresses like these, so she’s so excited to have two new ones in half an hour!Now that you’ve seen how easy it is to turn pants into a skirt, you’ll do it with all of your family’s pants, make them last twice as long!Did you notice? T-shirt What is my little girl wearing in these pictures? It is actually the same shirt! The heart was ruined, so I cut out the I Love NY logo and replaced it with reverse slitting decoration embellishment technique. You can see more pictures of this transformation (as well as pictures of these skirts and some of the shorts I made from pants) in this lesson from my Me-Made-May challenge last year. And if you want an idea about how to use the bottom strip of the legs that you cut out in step 4, see May 30 in that same Me Made May post! Finally, I’ll post a tutorial on that too!Do you love transforming clothes you don’t use anymore? Check out my other Quick and easy renewal guidesuch as this laced cardigan! Read more: how to wear a cap with long hair