How to sew shorts?

As the warm season approaches, many moms begin to gradually sort out their child’s wardrobe and prepare it for the upcoming season. The main subject in it, of course, are shorts, because they are comfortable, practical, can be simple and elegant, fashionable and relevant. And adults love to wear such things in hot weather, so they can rightfully be called universal. But almost all the kids are terrible fidgets, they like to run and play outdoor games, so they have to buy clothes a lot and quite often. And adults are not averse to frolic with their children, if the weather allows and managed to find time. If you master the primitive skills of cutting and sewing, you can replenish children's and adult wardrobe on their own, while saving most of the family budget. From this article you will learn how to sew shorts for a child or an adult at home.

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How to make shorts for a girl with your own hands?

Do you want to please your little princess and are interested in how to sew shorts with your own hands? Patterns for beginners will help you translate your fantasies into reality. It will take you no more than two hours.

Prepare a list of materials:

• 50 cm knitted fabric.
• Ribbed fabric 25 cm long.
• Elastic threads.
• Scissors.
• Pencil and paper.

Pattern

Well, if you have already found a pattern. If you could not find it, then you should not be upset, because you can do it yourself, and very quickly:

1. Take the old shorts that are just right for your baby at the moment.
2. Fold them in half, outline the outline with a pencil. Gum should not be cut out.
3. Then you need to make a separate pattern for the back and front of the product.

Important! Be sure to add 5 mm of allowance to the seams.

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Sewing

The scheme of how to sew homemade shorts with an elastic band looks like this:

1. Transfer finished or made by yourself patterns to the material and cut it. For work, you will need two front and two rear parts. From a ribbed fabric, cut a strip 46 cm long and 13 cm wide.
2. Next to each other, position the front and back of the future product.
3. Fold them with their faces to each other, using a machine seam, connect along the outer edge.
4. Do the same with other parts of the product.
5. The resulting parts are superimposed on each other and put together in areas where they are not yet sewn.
6. As a result, you will get almost finished shorts.
7. Sew over them from the inside or pin them with pins. Then sew on a typewriter.
8. Thread the elastic thread into the machine. Back 2-3 cm from the edge of the leg, sew it several times in a circle. Do the same with the second leg.
9. We sew a belt. Fold a rectangle of ribbed material across, then stitch to get a ring.
10. Fold it inside out in half, mark the edges with pins.
11. Connect the gum to the upper edges of the product and sew on a typewriter.

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How to sew shorts for a boy?

Sewing shorts for a boy is just as simple and easy. It’s not necessary to go to the store for a new cloth:

1. Use your old dad's t-shirt or t-shirt to work.
2. Prepare in advance threads matching the basic material, scissors, a pencil, a sheet of cardboard, an elastic band.

Important! Again, with the help of old, but suitable for your son in size, shorts, make a pattern.

Such shorts are made according to the following scenario:

• Fold the fabric in half, attach the pattern to it, then cut it out so that you end up with the finished bootlegs for the product.

Important! It is better to cut a t-shirt so that the bottom of future shorts falls on the lower processed edge.

• On the wrong side, put both parts on top of each other, stitch them on the sides.
• Next, fold the workpiece in the opposite direction, stitch the inside of the product.
• Bend the edge of the upper section of the shorts a few centimeters on the wrong side and machine it. Leave a small hole for the elastic.
• It remains only to insert the rubber, then manually process the edges of the hole.

Such clothes, of course, will occupy a separate niche in the wardrobe of your child.

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Making a short skirt for a girl with your own hands

Now we will figure out how to sew a skirt-shorts with our own hands quickly and without a pattern. Why is such a style better to choose? This wardrobe item in the history of its existence has already gained a lot of modifications. The basic version looks like a skirt, pants, only shortened to the required level.

To sew this product, you will have to familiarize yourself with the basic technique of making trousers, take all the specified measurements, in particular the hips, step size, and seat depth.

Important! You can work on the classic pattern of trousers, only by adding patterns of folds to it, or build it yourself, as in the options for sewing children's shorts.

Sewing a short skirt is the following sequence of actions:

1. Double the piece of prepared fabric, cut out two rectangles of the following sizes:
   • first - the length should correspond to the length of the finished shorts, increased for a cut in the waist by 20 cm;
   • the second is twice as large as the first, then the resulting part is folded in half.
2. In the place where the rectangle bends, cut a semicircle to get a waist hole. Its length is easy to calculate: divide the waist by 4, and add 5-10 cm. On the first part, cut the left corner, and the second, respectively, the right corner.
3. Cut the corner opposite the corner cut for the waist in a semicircle to get the bottom of our product.
4. Cut a step cut from 5 to 10 cm wide and 25 to 30 cm deep.
5. Sew first the inside cut, then stitch the tuck tucks on the rear panel.
6. Sew a step cut, sew in the front zipper.
7. Sew on the belt and work on the bottom cut.

As it turned out, even a beginner will be able to figure out how to sew women's shorts, because you do not have to perform any complicated manipulations in the process.

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We sew denim shorts on our own

How to sew jeans shorts - today many fashionistas are interested, because at the peak of popularity there are now models with high waist.

Important! Such clothes help visually lengthen the legs, quite comfortable to wear.

Stock up with such improvised means:

1. Pattern - home-made or ready-made from the Internet or a fashion magazine.
2. Denim.
3. Lightning.
4. Scissors.
5. Threads.
6. A piece of chalk.
7. Pins
8. Sewing machine with overlock.

If you have already prepared everything you need, then it's time to start the main work. Follow these instructions:

• Transfer the pattern to the fabric so that as a result you get two front halves of the product, two rear halves, front and rear parts of the facing, one of them with a fold.
• Design pockets if desired.

Important! The belt in your case will come out wider than in the usual models, and should match your individual parameters. Take special care in this process.

• Cut out all the details necessary for making shorts. Do not forget about allowances for seams: from the bottom - 3 cm, from all other sides - 1 cm.
• Start stitching.
• Sew tucks, connect, then stitch the front and rear halves.
• Make side seams, then sew pockets.
• Prepare a place for the installation of lightning.
• Stitch the two parts of the belt and fasten them to the shorts.

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If you slightly adjust the pattern, then with its help you can sew large shorts. To make it easier to work, do not forget to iron each seam carefully. Having minimal experience in tailoring, you can realize any of the proposed ideas.