How To Make Tights Into A Shirt

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And here we have the third and last leggings tutorial! You'll need a blueprint (tutorial here) and a long-sleeved shirt in some sort of stretchy fabric and yous'll stitch them in a similar way to how yous sew leggings with material yardage (tutorial here).

Hither are my three victims, gear up to get chopped up. I bought all iii at the same time but hardly ever used them because the viscose made me sweat (and stink. Ack!). But they were perfect for leggings.

Fold the shirt in half, making sure to match up the wrists and armpits. So make a directly cut beyond every bit high upwards on the sleeve every bit possible.

Place the sleeves on the blueprint.

The wrists should be lined up along the marking yous fabricated where the original leggings you used to make the pattern were (before adding seam allowances) because your hems are already done.

Make a marking where the cut fabric ends. The depict a parallel line 2 cm under that. (I drew 2 lines, each 1 cm from the others, when I was calculating how to do this, but there's non need to practice that!)

At present place the upper part of the pattern on the shirt's body. It doesn't thing if information technology goes a piddling over onto the sleeves, equally happened for me, because you'll finish upwards folding that office inwards for the rubberband waistband.

The important thing is to line upwardly that 2d line (or third, in my example) with the shirt's lower hem. If you tin can't get the blueprint to fit onto your material, yous can ever rip out the stitching and unfold the material to get more of information technology.

Cut effectually the pattern.

Check to make sure in that location isn't too much textile at the lesser. To do this, fold the pattern upwards along that second (third) line. If annihilation sticks out, cut it off. (In this instance, there was a little triangle which I cut off.)

As with leggings made from fabric yardage, you need to sew together ii tubes which volition become the legs. We'll exist doing this just with the thighs. Fold each thigh in one-half, right side in. Pin up to the crotch and sew. (I ever utilise an overlocker/serger, merely y'all tin also use a zig-zag stitch. Just use a run up with some stretch to information technology.)

Now slip the sleeves (right side out) into the thigh tubes (correct side in). The right sides will be facing each other.

Line upwardly the seam you sewed with the original one from the sleeve and pivot all around.

And again, stitch with some sort of stretchy run up, removing all the original shirt's seams.

When you pull the ex-sleeves out from the thighs, you'll have your new legs! It's true that yous can see the line where the two pieces join, merely it doesn't carp me. (Information technology's also true that you can run into it very easily in the central part of the photograph opening this mail service, but that's because 1) you detect it more with the stripes, ii) you see it more with shorts, which are shorter than the skirts and three) I used the incorrect colour of thread, so you lot can meet it more than. Only after I resewed that seam with the right color, it was much amend.) If y'all don't like it, you lot tin can always sew together another textile or something else over it to cover it. Only make sure information technology's stretchy.

So continue every bit you would with regular leggings. (If y'all need more details, please accept a expect at this tutorial.) You turn one leg inside-out and stick the other leg inside it, matching up the cut edges, lining upwards the seams. Pivot and sew (with stretchy stitch!).

And there you lot have leggings! Seeing equally I didn't take enough fabric to make my leggings as long as I would've liked them (because I'one thousand on the alpine side), I made a very simple waistband. I finished off the edge with my overlocker (you can also use a zig zag sew or cipher at all if you're using a non-fray bailiwick of jersey).

I sewed the elastic casing with a double needle (once more, cheque out the tutorial on how to sew leggings if y'all demand the instructions.), slipped in a slice of ribbon to mark the back, and closed upward the opening. Hither you can come across why I didn't heed so much that I was cutting into the sleeves; information technology gets folded inwards and y'all can't see it.

In this case, y'all can likewise see it from the outside, merely it doesn't bother me considering information technology only gets covered by whatever yous're wearing over it, anyway. Here, instead of slipping in a folded ribbon, I decided to sew a little tube of flake fabric (cutting a rectangle, folding information technology in half right sides together, sewing it into a tube, turning it right side out and folding in half to keep information technology in place) to prove where the back is. It's slightly more bulky and y'all demand an extra minute to brand information technology, but I think it looks improve that way.

And there you lot take them! Leggings upcycled from something you didn't employ anymore! If you sew together something using this leggings series of tutorials (or others) add the pictures to my new flickr grouping dedicted to your creations inspired by this blog! And there will be more tutorials to come, only I promise you, no more than leggings!! 😉

Source: https://www.cucicucicoo.com/2013/05/trasformare-maglietta-in-leggings-refashion-shirt/

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