Hi! Welcome back to Make Thrift Buy,
The show where you, the audience, send me clothes from the internet
and I try my best to recreate them. Today's challenge was suggested by Jodie Yeap
who sent me a picture of these "Black White Plaid Asymmetrical Hem Skort... Shorts."
That is like the worst product description of all time.
Anyway, I thought these "skorts"would be an interesting thing to try and recreate, they're like
an asymmetrical skirt at the front, and shorts at the back.
So, let's get started! So today I was unusually prepared
and I decided to make pattern before I started sewing. So the pattern looks like this.
you've got a shorts, the waistband and some panels for the asymmetrical skirt bit at the front.
Then I got to work - drawing up and cutting my pattern pieces out.
I placed my cut out pattern pieces onto the fabric,
this gingham, polyester/cotton blend, and I cut out all the pieces.
So I cut out the shorts piece on the fold of the fabric, and I ended up with TWO pieces
that look like this. I sandwiched them right-sides-together,
pinned them together to hold the fabric in place, and then I sewed down the sides
just like this. I'm only doing temporary basting stitches here,
because this will become the back of the shorts, and we will need to add a zipper here
later on. I also overlocked all the raw edges to stop them from fraying, but
this is a necessary step. If you don't have an overlocker,
a cheaper option is to buy these kind of scissors - they're called "pinking shears"
and to use them on all the raw edges. Next, while the shorts were inside-out, I folded up
the bottom edges one-inch
Pinned this,
and sewed across like this. Now comes the fun bit!
Flip the shots around so that the seam is in the middle and - BAM!
like magic, they start looking like shorts! Then I pinned
and sewed the crotch together just like this.
Then I thought it would be a good idea to try the shorts on,
You know, just in case the pattern didn't work, so I first removed the basting stitches
at the back and then I tried to put them on. Okay, so
they are a little bit tight, especially around the legs, but I can still get them on, so
it's totally fine...
I mean I can still... yep.
that's probably gonna be a problem. Yeah, my butt totally doesn't fit
these shorts.
So this pattern... sucks.
Don't use it. So instead, I'm going to do the "cheats method"of making shorts.
where you take a pair of shorts that fits you really well, turn them inside out,
Fold them in half, and... hang on.
These are pretty much exactly the same size as my pattern piece. Adding seam allowances,
The two would be exactly the same size.
Alright, I don't know what happened, and shorts scare me, so I'm basically
just going to make my pattern piece
much much much bigger and start again.
And then I'm just repeating all those shorts-making-steps that I did... again.
So, cutting out the fabric, placing the fabric
right-sides together...
And... here's my massive pair of shorts!
Alright, so they're a little big, but this is actually okay!
This is what I wanted! Because now I'm gonna put them on inside out,
and then I'm going to pin down the sides here to make the shorts fit me
then I'm going to draw a line where I put the pins, and then cut down the sides like this.
So I cut it, and I unfolded it, and they look something like this:
Then I overlocked the raw edges to stop fraying. So now I can add
my asymmetrical bits - those front pieces. Okay, so
for some reason these front pieces are too short.
I don't really know why this didn't work out, but nothing really seems to be working
today!
Anyway so I now have to extend this piece so it covers the entire front section of the
shorts
so I cut out two of these. And so I end up with these four pieces for the
front panel. I place them right sides together,
pin them together, and sew around these edges, leaving the top
edge open.
then I turn these pieces inside-out, I give them a good iron,
and I top-stitch over the edges. Then I place these two pieces onto the front of
my shorts, just like in the picture, and I sew them on at the top.
Then, I the back of the shorts onto the front,
right-sides together, and sew down the sides to reattach the shorts.
And we're getting somewhere.
okay, so I'm almost there, now I just have to attach the waistband
So this is the only pattern piece that seems to have held up so far.
I fold the waistband in half lengthways
and I sew down the length of it, and then I turn the tube that I have made inside-out,
I attach this to the front of the shorts
right sides together, and then I sew all the way around
the top edge like this. So now I just have to add a zipper.
So I stitched together this slit on the back of the shorts using a temporary
basting stitch, right sides together, and then i press this seam apart.
And I put a zipper directly in the middle so that the zipper teeth align
up with the seam. Then I sew the zipper on, making sure I'm catching
the fabric in the seam allowance underneath just like this.
To bust the zipper out of there,
I just cut through the basting stitches and the zipper is now free
and functional. So now the real question is:
how did they end up? Did they work? More importantly,
Did they fit?
Well, we got there in the end. I'm friggin' proud of myself, actually.
This just shows if you stuff up once, just keep persevering, coz it might just work...
and then you feel really, really, really good about yourself! Anyway, if you'd
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