Monday, November 2, 2009

Recycled outfit.

I made George these neat little shorts from a pair of my old jeans. I cut off the bottom half of each leg to use for the actual shorts. I used the jeans hem for the hem of my shorts and retained inside leg seam on the jeans but used it as the outside leg seam on my shorts (on a pair of jeans the inside leg seam is topstitched for durability. This makes it a bit more textured and interesting than the outside one so I decided to put it on show in my finished pair of shorts). I also ripped off one of the bum pockets and added it to the front leg of the shorts and then took the belt loops off jeans and stitched them onto the waistband of the shorts.

Elizabeth also made this little raglan t-shirt for George using some thrifted adults Tee's from my stash. Well I lie... she cut and stitched all of it but the ribbing around the neck... which I quickly attached with the overlocker. Normally I like to finish things off with toptstitching, but this time I just decided not to...


Comfy enough to sleep in.

6 comments:

Sara said...

George is so stylin'!

Anna - tillytom.com.au said...

The shorts are fabulous, what a great idea!

Vicki said...

That's so cute, I love it!

Gina said...

These are great. Might have to make some for my boys!

Crazy Cat Lady said...

Those shorts are gorgeous Milly :)

becanne said...

Love those shorts!