DIY Asymmetrical Skirt/Skort! | Make Thrift Buy #15

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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