{"id":4251,"date":"2012-03-13T13:45:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T18:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/?p=4251"},"modified":"2012-03-13T11:57:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T16:57:43","slug":"drawstring-toddler-pants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/13\/drawstring-toddler-pants\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawstring Toddler Pants"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m linking up with The Tuesday Glam Party<\/a>, One Project at a Time<\/a>, Take a Look Tuesday<\/a>, Tuesday’s Treasures<\/a>, Ta-Da Tuesday<\/a>, Tuesday Time Out<\/a> and Tuesday Tutorial Link Party<\/a>. Check out some of the amazing projects in these link ups!<\/i><\/p>\n

I am always looking for sewing practice, and as I’ve mentioned before and will mention again, I’m not amazing with a sewing machine. I mean, I earn the domestic<\/i><\/b> in my title with my oven and my knitting needles, but yeah, sewing is something I’m still figuring out. So, I try to do it as much as possible and hopefully sometimes the things I practice with are wearable or usable! In this case, it is!<\/p>\n

Prudent Baby has a serious archive of quick and useful crafty projects and I love to comb though it for ideas, inspiration and a lot of the time, instructions!<\/p>\n

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Drawstring Toddler Pants<\/b> via Prudent Baby<\/a>
\nPair of elastic or drawstring pants that fit your wee one
\n2+ yards of cute fabric (how much depends on the size of your wee one)
\nGrommets
\nDrawstring
\nPins, sewing machine, stuff like that…<\/p>\n

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First, fold the pair of pants that fit your wee one in half and lay them over the fabric. Trace around, adding about 1\/2″ for the seam all the way around. Now do it again. Lay them right side facing and pin together.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Sew the curves first, down the sides and hem the bottoms.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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This is the part that gave me trouble, I had to keep checking and double checking that I wasn’t about to sew the front of the pants to the butt, you know? I did it! If I can do it, you can defo do this.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Tah-daaaaah!!!<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Now for the grommets! You can make an actual drawstring waist or a fake<\/del> faux<\/i> drawstring like I did. Snip a wee hole to pop one side of the grommet through.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Then punch the other side through with a hammer. So neat!<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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This is when I slipped in the elastic and sewed up the waistband, just shy of the grommets.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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I cut two shortish lengths of nylon cord and knotted one end of each. I pushed them through the grommets and knotted them again. Then I finished off the waistband and I was done!! When I note in the sidebar that I’m struggling with sewing, that’s no exaggeration. I’ve never been very good at it even though in my head (and only in my head<\/i>) I’m a brilliant seamstress. So this was great news for the future brilliant seamstress I will become. Ha!<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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I think my eager little model likes them! This is Wee One #3 with her creepy Joker smile.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m linking up with The Tuesday Glam Party, One Project at a Time, Take a Look Tuesday, Tuesday’s Treasures, Ta-Da Tuesday, Tuesday Time Out and Tuesday Tutorial Link Party. Check out some of the amazing projects in these link ups! I am always looking for sewing practice, and as I’ve mentioned before and will mention […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91,99],"tags":[420,666],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4251"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4281,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251\/revisions\/4281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}