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Sew: DIY Baby Leggings {Pattern Link Included}

July 4, 2013

Sew: DIY Baby Leggings {Pattern Link Included}

Before you ask – No, I’m not having a baby! As it happens, a dear friend of Mummy Asks (& friend to me too) is a brand new Grandma. Congrats, Lyz!  I also wanted to sew something for my cousins new baby boy Max. Hi Chy! These new little humans arrived only a few days apart. Congratulations to all concerned!
Sew: DIY Baby Leggings {Pattern Link Included}
Baby clothes are so cute and tiny! I just had to sew something for the new arrivals. I whipped out a few pairs of baby leggings in minutes using this pattern. The patter has a 1cm seam allowance. It came with a construction tutorial but as usual I did things my own way! I made a few changes to the original, I sewed everything but the waistband with the overlocker.
 Sew: DIY Baby Leggings {Pattern Link Included}
To get the cute band around the leg (and therefore hem the legs using the overlocker) I lengthened the legs by 1.5cm and hemmed them first, using this method.
Sew: DIY Baby Leggings {Pattern Link Included}
I also positioned the tag on the outside, so it wasn’t scratchy. The tag is less for branding and more about telling back from front when you’re half awake. I even put them in my own clothes now, after I wore a skirt backwards for the best part of a day without noticing, tags seemed a good idea!
Sew: DIY Baby Leggings {Pattern Link Included}
I also did the waist bands differently. I did some exhaustive research (okay, I just called The Bestie) and found that Mummas hate untwisting twisty waistbands after washing. Twisted waistbands are lumpy and uncomfortable but I didn’t want raw edges or the elastic to sit directly on the skin. I cut my elastic to 32cm plus seam allowance.So I pressed the top edge about 1/2 a cm and tucked my (1.2cm wide) elastic and zig zagged the elastic on, catching the folded over fabric. like this
Sew: DIY Baby Leggings {Pattern Link Included}
Then I folded that over again and zig zagged everything down again. This is how it looks on the inside.
Sew: DIY Baby Leggings {Pattern Link Included}
And then the outside looks like this
Sew: DIY Baby Leggings {Pattern Link Included}
These turned out super cute and were very quick to sew. Will you give these a try?
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