Monday, November 9, 2009
Monday's mending
S has the enviable predicament of continually growing taller, but never wider. She has a pair of jeans that fit her great around the waist, but they are too short for her. So I took an old pair of my jeans that I’d already cut into for another project and cut 4 or 5 inches of the bottoms of the legs.
I roughly gathered the cut edges as I pinned them on to the bottoms of her pants. Next I machine sewed them on using navy thread right below the existing hemstitching. (Right where that red arrow is pointing.)
I decided to hand stitch a heart cut out of my old jeans, so it wouldn’t look so odd that the added part didn’t match S’s jean color. We both think they turned out pretty cool!
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Very cute.. I've had the same issue with Josh thinking he can still wear pants that fit around the waist but have turned into little man capris. Do you think a boy version of this would fly?
:-)
Wow! They really look great.
I especially love S's footwear - they compliment the new pants perfectly!
SOOO cute!
hey Mollie, I think Harrison gave those fancy shoes for her b-day a couple years ago!
That is a GREAT idea! Wish that would work for a boy...my Jack has the same dilemma...he never grows wider, just taller. But I don't think ruffles would work for him!
I love your blog - it makes me feel not so distant!
Good for you! Wow, S is looking so much older and more like her mom I think.
Super cute! Not sure I can get away with that for my boys. :-)
Great idea! Now...what do you do with holes in the knees?
Very Cute. I have the same issue with Danielle and I have cut a few pants into capris--but I never thought about adding fabric. Great idea. (i'm glad you finally jumped on the blog train)
Thank is such a great idea! I love it.
That turned out so cute! I'll have to try that becuase we have the same issue--I've done various things to try to fix it, but mostly she just wears high waters or her pants are always falling down.
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