Bethanial
Lovin' The Homestead
I was thrilled to walk into Old Navy yesterday (their jeans fit me best) and find not 1 but 2 pairs of these jeans IN MY SIZE on clearance! (I only paid $11.98/pr in the store!)
I've been toying with the idea of doing this for awhile now (with a panel in both the front and back, though), modeled after my all time favorite jean skirt (which I paid full price for before I knew any better
) that was cut just like a pair of jeans, with fabric inserted in the middle, and the most comfortable piece of clothing I've ever owned.
So I then went to Joann's and bought a yard of this wonderful denim fabric with pretty sparklies
Realized on the way home I paid more for the yard of fabric than I did for the pair of pants 
The above article talks about ripping the crotch seam up to the zipper in the front and the back up as high as the waistband! I DON'T want to do that. I guess I'm willing to open up the crotch seams a couple inches each way if that's necessary to make the seam be flat (see how I just avoided the whole "do I use lay or lie" bit there
), but the whole point of this is to mimic that all time favorite skirt, in that the biggest part of the comfort factor was that it fit exactly like a pair of jeans through the seat/rear.
Conveniently, the denim fabric is 60" selvage to selvage, and the jeans have a 30" inseam
I've got figured out to cut in the middle of the selvages so I have 2 30" yards of fabric. Sew the sides to the opened up inseam of the jeans, but what do I do with the yard of fabric at the top and that little bit of space at the crotch?
Unfortunately, I can't look at said favorite ankle-length denim skirt because I sold it (bad news) when I lost so much weight (good news) it looked ridiculous on me. But I am a visual person, and figuring out that top bit of fabric in the crotch part of the inseam would be so much easier if I could see it. I get that it'll need to be gathered/pleated/something, and maybe even to cut down on an angle simply because a yard of fabric just won't fit in 3" of space
So I repeat, Abifae! Help me! (Or anybody else with great sewing/imagining skills
)
If ya need more info on any of the above, let me know - and TIA!
I've been toying with the idea of doing this for awhile now (with a panel in both the front and back, though), modeled after my all time favorite jean skirt (which I paid full price for before I knew any better
) that was cut just like a pair of jeans, with fabric inserted in the middle, and the most comfortable piece of clothing I've ever owned.So I then went to Joann's and bought a yard of this wonderful denim fabric with pretty sparklies
Realized on the way home I paid more for the yard of fabric than I did for the pair of pants The above article talks about ripping the crotch seam up to the zipper in the front and the back up as high as the waistband! I DON'T want to do that. I guess I'm willing to open up the crotch seams a couple inches each way if that's necessary to make the seam be flat (see how I just avoided the whole "do I use lay or lie" bit there
), but the whole point of this is to mimic that all time favorite skirt, in that the biggest part of the comfort factor was that it fit exactly like a pair of jeans through the seat/rear.Conveniently, the denim fabric is 60" selvage to selvage, and the jeans have a 30" inseam
I've got figured out to cut in the middle of the selvages so I have 2 30" yards of fabric. Sew the sides to the opened up inseam of the jeans, but what do I do with the yard of fabric at the top and that little bit of space at the crotch?Unfortunately, I can't look at said favorite ankle-length denim skirt because I sold it (bad news) when I lost so much weight (good news) it looked ridiculous on me. But I am a visual person, and figuring out that top bit of fabric in the crotch part of the inseam would be so much easier if I could see it. I get that it'll need to be gathered/pleated/something, and maybe even to cut down on an angle simply because a yard of fabric just won't fit in 3" of space
So I repeat, Abifae! Help me! (Or anybody else with great sewing/imagining skills
)If ya need more info on any of the above, let me know - and TIA!
