T-shirt Yoga Pants Tutorial (my version)

I'm sorry I'm late with the tutorial. My wireless went out Thursday. I am using Retta's until she kicks me off. So this is kinda being rushed.

Here Goes:

***Make sure the distance from armpit to armpit on the shirt you are using is bigger than your thigh measurement. For the waist you can use the sleeves of the t-shirt, a skort like my last pair, another shirt like this pair, or just any fabric that you can get to the measurement needed. For drawstring you can use ribbon, rope, long boot shoelaces, one of the sleeves cut into a spiral so as to make a long string, etc.

Also, for the waist, make sure your fabric doesn't fray, or extra steps will have to be taken.***

Step 1: Lay your T out flat, making sure to line up the bottom front with the bottom back.

Step 2: Cutting thru the front and the back at the same time, cut the sleeves off at the seams. (Cut so as to leave the seams on the sleeves, not the shirt.)

Step 3: Cut from the armpits to the bottom sides of the shirt, following the folds made from it laying flat.

Step 4: Cut the neck and shoulders off by cutting straight and even, thru both layers, from one arm to the other, just below the neckline.







Step 5: You now have the 2 (unsewn) legs. Set one to the side. Fold the other one, lining up the 2 edges you cut in step 3, with outsides facing in, pin and sew securing ends. Repeat for other leg. (The red yarn shows where was sewn.)







Step 6: Turn them right side out. Line up the arm holes, outsides facing in, pin and sew from the inside, securing ends.

Step 7: Try them on both ways. Determine which side will be the front. Now measure from the back seam of the pants up to where you want your waist to end. Multiply that by 2 and add seam allowances at both ends. (I used my finger to measure. My waist just happened to be the same measurement as my index tip to knuckle. It is easier and more accurate than a ruler, which you have to distort yourself to read the measurement.)

Step 8: By whatever means, make a rectangle that is (your waist measurement+ seam allowances) by (measurement from step 7.)

Step 9: Outsides facing in, line up the shorter edges, pin and sew securing ends.

Step 10: Lay your pants flat, right side out. Take the waist tube you just made, turn it inside out, and put around top of pants with the tube seam lined up with the back pant seam. (If you used 2 equal pieces to make the waist tube, line the seams up with the side folds of the pants as they lay flat.) Line up, pin, and sew around, securing edges.







Step 11: Now fold the waistband in (If using elastic instead of a drawstring, now is the time to put it in.) Line up the edge of the inner waist band, with the edge of the seam, pin & sew, securing edges.

Step 12: Now that your pants are sewn, all that is left is the drawstring. Move to the middle of the front of the waistband. (use pant seam to line up.) Half-way up the waist, outer layer only, fold over and make 2 small vertical holes. (The front seam should line up right between these 2 holes.)







Step 13: String as shown below:

If any of this doesn't make sense to you, please let me know.
Also, I would love to see any that yall make.

And yes I did lose weight. Don't I look good!?! LOL

Ha Ha Ha!!!

Something funny I saw on Crafty Chica's blog that I had to share with yall:

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I now have another shirt to use to
make the yoga pants tutorial (my version).
So expect it to be posted by Friday.

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I have been using
the in-law's wii fit,
and it kicks @$$!
The best 'workout'
I may have ever had!
And I am sooo sore!

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Craft plans:

~I hope to be making a pair of men's house pants for Travis, soon. I have to make the pattern, and find manly-looking fabric. LOL
~I hope to complete my eye mask that I am making for when I have migranes.
~I hope to have the fabric soon to make my wedding dress.
~More totebags, of course.
~And a few surprises along the way.

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***Let's keep in mind that I am an Aquarius. So I can't really plan for shit.
So there is a high possibility that I will end up doing none of the above anytime soon, instead I'll do like 20 other things, and this whole boring blog post was to steal 10 minutes from your life that you will NEVER get back!!! LOL***

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Pumpkin's Yoga Pants

I have always been an arts & crafts kinda girl, but I usually don't show off the things I create. (At least not since middle school.) Here lately, tho, I've had the urge to show off a bit. Maybe it is proof that my confidence is finally increasing...Or maybe I just decided 'to hell with everyone's potentially negative opinions'.....Who knows!?!

Either way...Whatever!.....

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Pumpkin's Yoga Pants:

What do you get when you mix one part really huge shirt

+
One part ugly but comfy skort


+
3 parts buttons
& a mountain of creativity?


Yoga Pants of course!



And a matching fur~baby collar!



They are so comfy!!! And they look fantabulous!!!!!

Tote-ally Crafty Bag Challenge

I entered the Tote-ally Crafty Bag Challenge on Craftstylish!

I almost didn't enter because of all the people that were breaking the rules and still allowed to stay in the competition. But Travis convinced me to join anyways. We can only hope that those running it will do the right thing. (...whether I win or lose.....)

So here's my last minute throw together:

Omni-Crafter's Cherry Candy

Looks like a piece of candy!


Open flat.


Pulled drawstring.

I wanted a tote that could fit in my purse in a small form. So I don't have to have multiple empty totes on my shoulder walking into a store so I won't have to use plastic bags upon leaving. This way, it is there when I need it, and out of sight when I don't. It looks like a piece of candy when in it's small form, and like a regular cherry drawstring bag in it's large form.

I am entering it into the Tote-ally Craft Bag Challenge; in the omni-crafter category.

It is made from recycled white bed linens, red table cloth (that was a truck bench seat cover before it was a table cloth!), red coinlike charms from a belly dancing waist scarf thing, scraps of yarn, and the drawstring came from a broken dogleash.

I would really like to win because I feel my bag is innovative, and I could really use the fabric.com gift certificate for my wedding dress.

(The red is redder than the pics make it look like. The stems of the cherries are 2 strands of yarn sewn twisted.....brown and green.)

So...what do yall think?

Quotes

Thanks to...
Kindness of Strangers Live Green saves Wildlife
Makayla


"Use it up wear it out make it do or do without"

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. ~Henry David Thoreau

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. ~Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
~Native American Proverb

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future. ~Marya Mannes, More in Anger, 1958

I am the earth. You are the earth. The Earth is dying. You and I are murderers.
~Ymber Delecto

And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use. And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags and aluminum cans and paper plates and disposable bottles and there was nowhere to sit down or walk, and Man shook his head and cried: "Look at this Godawful mess."
~Art Buchwald, 1970

Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,
For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain.
America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,
And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.
~George Carlin

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
~Ross Perot

Funny Quotes

1. It's always darkest before dawn. So if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it.

2. Always remember that you're unique. Just like everyone else.

3. Never test the depth of the water with both feet.

4. Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.

5. If at first you don't succeed, sky diving is not for you.

6. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

7. If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.

8. Some days you're the bug; some days you're the windshield.

9. Everyone seems normal until you get to know them.

10. A closed mouth gathers no foot.

11. There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works.

12. Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your lips are moving.

13. Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

14. Never, ever, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

15. It's never too late to have a happy childhood.