Dull Pants To Sassy Short

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  Step 1

  First you will need an old pair of pants.

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  Step 2

  Put on your pants and mark where the knees are. I used pins but you can use safety pins or anything that will stick on like tape.

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  Step 3

  Next you need to figure out how short you want your shorts to be. I wanted mine to be no more than 2" above then knee so I could wear them to work so I measured up half and inch above my marked knee and cut the legs off. You can mark a straight line to make it nice and even. Keep the extra leg bits, you will need them later.

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  Step 4

  Once the legs were cut off I serged the edges of the pants leg. If you don't have a surger you can do a small hem, use a zig-zag stitch on your sewing machine or use pinking sheers.

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  Step 5

  I measured up one inch with my ruler (see above image) and pressed it firmly down using lots of steam on the iron.

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  Step 6

  Then I used the pressed edge as a guide and folded it up another inch. Once it was even I pressed it firmly with the iron again. That's it for the shorts, if you want to secure your legs a bit more you can always hand tack the folds down at the seams.

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  Step 7

  Now grab those discarded legs because we are going to make a matching belt out of them. I needed 4 18" long 2" wide pieces for mine. Take your ruler and mark and cut the required pieces out of a pant leg. I kept the pre-existing hem on two of the pieces and cut it off of the other two.

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  Step 8

  I placed the hemmed pieces on the two ends of the belt and pinned all the pieces together. I sewed those on the machine and serged and pressed the seams. I also did a small 1/4" hem down each side of the belt to finish it off.

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  Step 9

  Last but not least I wore my shorts and looked fabulous, and now you can too!

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Steph. · Reading, England, GB · 212 projects 17th June 2013

oooh, sassy!
and very cool and cute

thanks for the tutorial!
I will be trying these, seeing as it should be summer here in England soon...?
well... we'll see about that one!! xD

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