The 365 Day Challenge

My goal is to create something every day using something from my craft cupboard. I am a self-confessed fabric addict and just love to fossick through thrift shops and find treasures.

So here goes. Live, love, recycle and get crafting.



Showing posts with label pants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pants. Show all posts

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Day 363 - Pants that ROAR


Back in 2010 I bought this book Meet me at Mikes. It has lots of simple projects in it and it got me back into sewing which I really hadn't done much of since I was a teenager.

I ended up making heaps of pairs of these baby yoga pants, a super simple pattern in the book.

Here are some of the ones I made for Little A back then.


Today I made some of these for Mr D, with some fabric I found at the op shop for $1. It's a cute and vibrant fleecy lined fabric that will be fantastic for when it gets cooler.





Only 2 days to go!!

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Day 318 - A pantsformation


The true title for this blog post should be 'What not to do with transfers'. It all began with a plain pair of black size 1 stretchy pants and some transfers. From there it seemed to go from bad to worse.

First I put the iron straight onto a transfer, transfer ruined, iron not so good either. Then I chose a different set of transfers that I thought were separate transfers but they were one big one so when I cut it out crudely and ironed it on it looked ridiculous. After another hour or so of trying to work out how to fix it I settled on transferring on top of a transfer, which didn't work out too badly. Whew!



Melted transfer - first mistake.


These 2 cuties were supposed to be one on each side.


Badly cut out transfer :-(


Transfer over transfer.

The recipient!



What to do next - go outside and bathe in wet sand for a bit.

Monday, January 14, 2013

Day 301 - Tablecloth into long shorts


Finished today's project with only a couple of hours left in the day. This could be one of my more out there creations.

I used a vintage tablecloth I found at a garage sale a year or two ago with a few small holes in it to make some long shorts or 3/4 pants. For the back I matched it with some brown corduroy from my craft cupboard.

Tablecloth.


Pants.

Me. What do you think? I little too crazy? I'm loving the colours and they are definitely one of a kind.



Sunday, January 13, 2013

Day 300 - Another robot post - Robot pants


Firstly, back on day 22 I made these pillow case trousers for Dylan and he has finally grown into them is wore them today to our big family gathering of cousins in Melbourne.




 Today he got another pair of pants. These are a lightweight corduroy and I drew a robot shape onto some red cord, cut it out and sewed it onto the bottom of one leg. I zig zag stitched a mouth and sewed two little beads on for eyes.







This is the one where Mum is making me sit down instead of running around.

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Day 246 - Birthday Trousers


The next couple of days will be devoted to birthday goodness as I prepare for my baby to turn one. Yes I am feeling a little sad that he will be the last baby in our house, and that his days of babydom are numbered. It's been an amazing journey this past year and he has taught me so much, as I know he will continue to do.

I have a little background project that I was working on today, which is a kids tent. I made the pattern last week and started cutting out the pieces today.

Here's a little peek.


I love this retro fabric and thought it would look awesome with some chenille, so I used some of the scraps to make some birthday boy trousers.





Rocking it out as always. xx

Friday, November 2, 2012

Day 228 - Flowers and recycled chenille.


These are some pants for a little girl who is turning 1 very soon. The front are these cute flowers and the back are a recycled chenille beach robe, also used for another pair of pants in the early days of my 365 challenge.




Here is the little man rocking it out as my model.



Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Day 212 - An experiment in men's shirt refashioning.


When you get woken up at 5:30 am by small people, you may as well use the morning productively. And so it was that I was doing my daily crafting at 6am while the kids ate breakfast.

Since I used this men's shirt yesterday to make a girl's dress, I thought I'd do an experiment to see if I could make pants from the leftover shirt sleeves. Then it would basically be a zero waste project. 

Here's the result. Skinny leg trousers. As usual, the model would not stay still. The length of my husband's shirt sleeves seems perfect for Mr 3 year old though. What do you think? Not sure how practical the fabric will be for the little man though, given it doesn't really stretch. Only time will tell.



I cut the crotch shape into the top section of the sleeve, with a deeper cut on one side for the bottom. I did this for both sleeves and then sewed them together, one inside the other.


Here they are sewed together and ready for an elastic casing to be added.
 Finished pants. It was certainly quick and easy. You can tell they are made out of a shirt. Do you think they are too out there?




Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Day 191 - Dude pants


Back on the sewing machine again. Yay!

I bought this small woven throw rug / table cloth at an op shop for 50 cents when we still lived in Melbourne, so it must have been more than a year ago. I wanted to make some little pants for little A, who back then was the baby of the family. I finally did it today and they are so cute on him. I'm very happy with the results.

Here's what I started off with, the table cloth is about 1m square, or a little less. I also used an old pair of jeans.


I wanted to use the woven tablecloth for the front and the jeans for the back of a pair of little people pants.

As I decided to keep the fringe for the bottom of the pants, I chose to keep the denim raw on the bottom edge as well, and used a pin to pull out some threads and create a little fringe or frayed look as shown here.


I added a little pocket to the back.


And here are the pants, with the 3 year old model who refuses to stand still and only does 'funny' faces.




Thursday, September 20, 2012

Day 185 - Vintage paisley and Pom Poms


It was one of those stunningly gorgeous sunny days here today that reminds you that summer is on the way. The days are getting longer and that makes me smile more often.

I took my little boys into town to see the beautiful tulips that are blooming in the park. All the wildflowers in the bush around our house are also out in force and the whole area is looking very pretty.



Over a year ago Juliet chose this vintage paisley fabric in pink and yellow from a market stall where we bought loads of vintage fabric all for a dollar a metre. It has a slight stretch and a small paisley pattern. I decided to make her some spring pants, and add a little pom pom trim. After all, who doesn't love pom poms?

The day made me feel happier to be home again. And after all, tomorrow is the last day of school term, before a two week holiday. Bring it on!