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Tuesday, December 9, 2008

December 9th - DECEMBER DAYS OF CRAFTING - Baby Pajama Pants

EASY BABY PAJAMA PANTS

Everybody needs new pajama pants for the holidays.

Now you can take one of your old tees and turn it into something cozy and fun for your little one!

Today's project has two sources. Be sure to check them out.

WWW.HANDYPROJECTS.BLOGSPOT.COM

and

WWW.ROOKIEMOMS.COM

For this tutorial...click here

HAVE FUN!


1. Identify an appropriate t-shirt or sweatshirt. (or just get a yard of some of your favorite fabric and fold it in half)

2. Fold a pair of baby’s pants with crotch sticking out and trace. I have outlined what it should look like for you. With this placement of the cut, you will not need to hem the bottom. (if you use a yard of fabric instead, you can just do a simple turn under hem to finish the bottom)

3. Cut on your traced line.

4. Cut a second pant leg from the other side of the shirt. Look for the arrow on the left in this picture to see how I used my first pant leg as a guide.

5. You have two pant legs now, right?

6. Place right sides facing each other and pin. Sew along curves.

7. Reorient the pants and you’ll see that you just have a crotch to sew up and a waist to fold over and sew. Leave a space to thread the elastic through.
Sew crotch seams up and fold over panel for waist

8. Insert elastic, sew waist closed, and you are done!

Insert elastic and close up.  Voila!

2 comments:

  1. i love this one! do i need a sewing machine? i'm guessing so...

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  2. A sewing machine would be really helpful with this one, but if you're patient, you could hand stitch. I am not sure how well it will hold up to a toddlers roaming and running, though. Let me know if you give it a try!

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