#70 Back to School Wardrobe
REFLECTIONS: Six weeks till end of the school year.
- Lots of Field Days, Field Trips, and Day Camps
- Need casual, cool capris, but not shorts.
- Lands End from the Re-fashion stash.
- Wide elastic band looked easy to just pull and tighten.
- BUT, the waistband elastic was so heavily blind stitched that it took two TV nights to pull out the stitching. .
- The elastic was stitched into the waistband seam so the whole band had to come off.
- Seam rip a lot to get the waist band off.
- Then seam rip a lot more to get the elastic free.
- Re-attach the waistband.
- Insert a shorter and more narrow elastic due to the new more narrow waistband casing.
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| AFTER: Capri size knit with a tighter waisband Ready for end of school Field Days and Field Trips |
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| BEFORE: 3 XXXL Knit Leggings |
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| DURING: Waistband removed, old black elastic, new more narrow / shorter elastic |
3 comments:
Seam ripping is my least favourite part of sewing! Great job and such a useful item to have in the closet.
What a great idea! These look like excellent "play clothes" for field day with the kids. I remember field day. I hated it! I hope you have a wonderful time though.
Chickie EOD
Thanks jenny_o and Chickie
For Field Day, I learned that we will have school t-shirts to wear. The grade levels (2 classes each) have a color. Teachers and staff wear red. My students will have a 3-day day camp away from the school. So these Capris and red teacher t-shirt should be good for those days also.
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