Hey guys, I was scouring Ebay for some lace trimmed shorts, when I realised that I could easily do it myself! I happened to have some 3/4 leggings sitting in my drawer and after a short trip to get some lace, I ended making some pretty decent leggings. Leggings nowadays can be pretty cheap, and a metre of lace isn't expensive either. Both of these together are much cheaper than the £7+ leggings on Ebay.
What you need:
- Leggings
- Pins
- Sewing machine (or you could hand sew) with appropriate thread colour matching the leggings
- Lace (1m or more, my leggings are a size small, so it may be safer toe go with 2m)
- Ruler/measuring tape
- Pen/chalk to mark your clothing
- Scissors
Spread out the leggings so there are no folds or overlaps.
Take your pen/chalk and mark a straight line across both legs where you want your leggings to be cut.
(Bear in mind that these will be folded up and sewn later on, so you may want to make it 3/4cm longer.)
Taking your pins, pin across the line of each leg.
Make sure to pin through both layers of each leg.
Take your scissors and cut along the line ( don't worry if you cut a cm or two under)
Your leggings should look like this once both cut.
Remove the pins
Make sure the ends are straight, if you've cut a bit wonky you can straighten them up with scissors here.
Now turn the leggings inside out.
Take your pen again, and measure 2/3cm above the edge. Then draw a straight line of that height above the cut across the leg. Do this to both legs.
Using the lines you have drawn as a guideline, fold up each hem of each leg and pin the edges down.(Only pin through one layer, and pin all the way around each leg.)
To make sure that both legs are even, fold the leggings like this - if they match it means they are even. If they aren't even, you can adjusts the folds of each leg.
Take your leggings and sew up the hems you've just made with a sewing machine or by hand. Remove pins as you go along.
You should end up with legs that look like this.
Both hems sewn up.
Check to make sure both legs are even.
Taking your lace (or even ribbon, whichever you prefer to attach)
Pin the edge of the lace to the edge of the leggings. (You don't need to measure the lace, you can just sew until the lace meets where you started sewing.)
When using the sewing maching press the foot down to clamp the lace and the legging.
Do this step quite slowly, making sure the edge of the lace is sewn to the edge of the hem throughout.
When the lace meets where you started, you can sew both lace edges together.
After sewing both legs, the hems should look similar like this.
Turn your leggings inside out, and you're done.
Many thanks for reading guys!
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