Dress to Apron to Shorts.

 Hello Readers. I found this dress at a thrift shop and made an apron, but I didn't stop there. I kept sewing.

Before and after. 

 

This dress was really long on me originally. So I shortened it. 

 

When I shortened it, I cut off a lot of fabric. 

 

I cut off over a foot of fabric and I found the biggest hem allowance I have ever seen in my life. There was about 5-6 more inches more fabric in the hem that I could use. I was thrilled. 

 

I decided to cut out a pair of shorts from the extra fabric. There was plenty of fabric for a pair of high waisted shorts. I have used this pattern before, it is starting to fall apart but I love it so much. It is from a sewing book called, "One Piece Wearables". 

 

There was even enough fabric to make pockets. I went off on my own with this, I had no pattern but who doesn't want pockets?

 

I folded the edges in, and ironed the edges to keep them nice and neat. The pockets are the size that I could make with my extra fabric. They couldn't be bigger because the fabric was limited.

I sewed the top edge of the pocket down to make a nice edge. 

I pinned the pockets on each side of the shorts. I wanted to sew the pockets on before I sewed the shorts together. It is much easier this way. 

The shorts pieces can lay flat while I sew each of the pockets in place. When The pockets were done, I sewed the center seams together to connect the shorts pieces. 

 

I had some blue elastic to I used that to make the waistband. 

 

I attached the elastic around the top of the shorts.

 

Then I turned the elastic under and stitched it down with my sewing machine. 

 

These were very easy shorts but I love how they came out. They were a great use of all that extra fabric. Thanks for reading along, believe it or not, I am still not done with this dress. Check back tomorrow to see what else I did with this dress. Now go make something fun for yourself.