How To Turn Shorts Into A Skirt Without Sewing Machine

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It's such a clichè, but it'due south as well totally true: how fast kids grow! And that of course ways that they grow out of their clothes so quickly.

But what a shame to get rid of dress that still fit them in the waist. And that's why every spring I go through their wardrobe and plough all their too-brusque pants or pants with holes in the knees (anyone with an active little boy knows what I mean) and turn them into shorts or skirts.

Turning pants into shorts is pretty straightforward: cut off the bottom of the leg and hem it. The only real difference in turning pants into a brim is that you take to open up up the leg seams and then close them back up again.

It'south so satisfying to make these ambrosial little skirts, which are perfect for summer playing and twirling. And information technology only takes nigh 15 minutes because the waistband is already made! Yah!

Practise your kids- or y'all- take whatever pants that are slowly making their way up their legs equally they grow? Well, then, grab your scissors and we'll fix them up right here and now! Now I'll bear witness you how to plough pants into a skirt!

Hither are a pair of my daughter's pants, which actually started out as overalls that I refashioned into pants. She wore them oftentimes until they started getting really besides short.

Earlier we start, I'd like to clarify that this tutorial works fantastically for whatsoever lightweight fabric. I do not propose this method for thicker fabric, such as jeans, because the seam will not lay flat properly. At some bespeak I will share a tutorial for sewing a jean skirt from jeans, which is a different method.

i. Cutting open the inner leg seam, as indicated by the arrows. If your pants have an elastic at the bottom, like these ones did, cut information technology off first.

Iron the fabric so that it is dainty and flat.

Hither's a close-up of the crotch area. You lot tin meet that I cut right across from one leg to the other.

ii. Turn the pants inside out and open the fabric up. Line up the cutting edges from step #1 so that the ii leg pieces are laying right sides facing, and pin them together (black circles on the left in a higher place).

Use a fabric marker tool, such as tailor'southward chalk, to draw a line from the existing seam to the cut edges (red oval on the left to a higher place). Make sure that the transition is shine.

Then stitch from the existing seam all the way down the leg, sewing along the line that you've drawn (crimson oval on the right above). And then sew again forth the raw fabric edges with a zig-zag stitch or an overlocker to keep them from fraying.

Information technology'south very of import for the new seam to transition smoothly from the former seam. In the picture in a higher place, #1 is the garment'south original seam, #2 is the beginning of my new seam, and #3 is the start of my overlocked seam (to avoid fraying). You tin run into that my new seam (#2) starts inside the original seam assart and works its way out so that the old and new seams create a straight line.

iii. Repeat footstep #two with the other raw edges on the other side. Printing the seams apartment. Turn the garment right side out, and y'all'll see that it'due south already a skirt! Of form the bottom looks very raggedy, then permit's prepare that.

4. Try the skirt on your model and mark with a rubber pin where you want the bottom of the skirt to fall.

Fold the skirt in half, making sure to align the different layers of waistband and side edges and keeping the safety pin on the top layer, and cutting across iii cm below the rubber pin.

5. Turn the skirt inside out once more and hem it by folding the bottom edge up 1 cm, ironing, folding up 2 cm, ironing and sewing in place with a seam allowance just under 2 cm.

(I never enjoy hemming because it'south pretty monotonous, but I have an easy trick for doing it perfectly without having to constantly mensurate!)

And that's it! Let your model try on her new skirt on and love seeing how happy she is with it!

Did you bank check the clock? I'll bet information technology didn't take you any longer than 15 minutes! And then much satisfaction in so trivial fourth dimension! My daughter loves little skirts like this, so she was thrilled to have 2 new ones in half an 60 minutes!

Now that you lot've seen how like shooting fish in a barrel information technology is to turn pants into a skirt, y'all'll be doing information technology with all your family's pants, making them last twice equally long!

Did you notice the T-shirts my footling girl is wearing in these pictures? It's actually the aforementioned shirt! The heart had gotten ruined, and then I cut out the I Dear NY logo and replaced information technology with my slashed reverse appliqué embellishment technique. You can run across more pictures of this transformation (also as pictures of these skirts and some shorts that I fabricated from pants) in this mail service from my Me-Made-May challenge final yr.

And if you lot want an idea of how to use the bottom strip of legs that you cut off in pace iv, take a look at May thirty in that same Me Made May post! Eventually I will become around to posting a tutorial on that, too!

Do you dearest transforming clothes you don't use anymore? Check out my other quick and piece of cake refashioning tutorials, such as this necktie-shirt cardigan!