More Recycled Longies

Andy was outgrowing his wool longies and I found I had a few sweaters left over from William that I never used.



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After












This pair is made out of the body of the sweater and uses the neckline as the waistband.



















































This pair is made from the arms with elastic in the top.

















The two pairs don't look that different when he's wearing them!

Sweater Longies Number 3

I have had a couple of sweaters that I got at Goodwill that I'd never used and I decided to go ahead and make a pair of longies out of the arms of them and then save the body parts for the new baby.

Here is the sweater

I added a gussett to add width in the crotch.

The gussett pinned in

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The gussett sewn in.

Ready to sew the front and back seams.

Zig-zag the edges.

I sewed a casing on the top and added elastic.

William modeling the finished longies.

Butt Sweaters

I had another sweater from Goodwill that I wanted to use for soakers and longies for William. This one is 100% lambswool and SO soft. It wasn't shrunken, so it feels thin.
The weather was turning colder and one of his few soakers was dirty, so I really needed to get these done!

Sweater before

Pattern pinned on.

Cut out

Sewn

On William

Now I have this left

I picked out the seams on the sleeves.

And cut out two soakers

I added to the sides as I didn't think it would be wide enough

I used the neckband ribbing for the top of this one!

I was going to add to the sides, too, but couldn't figure out how to with the little bits i had left! It's a little tighter, but still fits!

After shots:

A pair of longies and 2 soakers for $3.29.

Not bad, not bad at all!

and this is all I had left of the sweater!

The soakers/longies work great even with them being thinner.