A jumper that I never wore was turned into a shrug…which I wore…and then it got put on the hot wash!…so now it has a new lease of life as a pair of wollen longies for the smallest.
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- This is what I used to make the longies, as the sleeves were WAY too tight, thanks to the hot wash.
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- Already they make an obvious pair of strides!
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- One of the easiest ways to see if they fit is to directly compare them to your child, the Smallest is not too fused about tape measures so guesstimates are the way forward.
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- Using a stich unpick, open the seams up to the length of your childs inside-leg, unpicking rather than cutting will ensure that the knit does not run. Quite simply sew the two pieces together starting on one edge, work iot the crotch and up onto the other edge, you may need to stitch over the crotch area again, as I often find that I have missed on the first go, and have a little hole where the seams meet.
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- Turning the waist band over leae a gap in the stitches large enough to thread through your elastc. Streatch the elastic to give a tighter fit, and sew ends together, tuck them into the waistband and sew up the gap, and there you have it.
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- All done, all that needs doing is soaking in a solution with lanolin to ‘lanolise’ them ready to wear.
I haven’t had her in them yet, but I have the sneaking suspicion that they aren’t going to go around those chubby little thighs of hers, well we await tomorrow to find out, and now to find the rest of that jumper I massacred so I can make a shortie soaker out of it! Poor old hubby is never going to get that jumper I promised to knit him!
Happy sewing!
