Hello everyone✨.
For as long as I can remember, I've wanted to crochet a pair of shorts for myself. However, whenever I get close to starting the project, I change my mind and end up using the yarn for something else. But not this time.
Last week, while I was searching for the different types of yarn in my possession to use as study materials for my student, I came across a number of scrap yarn laying around. Certainly, they were from different brands and of different textures but I got the brilliant idea to actually turn them into a pair of shorts.
Now, I had my reservations with this idea because one thing I don't like is being unable to finish up a row because the yarn finished along the line. To avoid this, I carefully selected the yarns I believed could conveniently make a row or two on this project and right after the selection I got the necessary measurements and immediately got to work.
Seeing that I wanted the waist band to be homogenous, I chose to use the purple coloured yarn because it seemed like the most sufficient colour.
With my yarn, I made a chain of 17 (16 plus one turning chain). Next, I turned over and began working single crochet stitches into the back loops only. This will give the waist band the ribbed look in the end. I continued this pattern till I got the length of my waist measurement.
Seventeen starting chains may seem like a very wide chain but I made this number because I was going to bend the waist band in half after inserting my elastic band.
After getting my desired length, I cut out the same length on my elastic band and using a thread and needle, I sewed the elastic band close.
Next, I placed the elastic band into the waist band and using single crochet stitches, I joined both ends of the waist band with the elastic band still intact. This part can be a bit tactical but not difficult.
After making my waist band, I proceeded to make the body of the shorts. I changed yarn colours and worked two rows of half double crochet stitches round the waist band with no increases.
From the third row, I made an increase at two different points and for every subsequent increase, I changed positions. I did this because I didn't want the increases to be very visible.
On the 25th row it was time to divide the body of the short into two equal halves. At this point, I counted all the stitches on my project and divided it by two to get the correct division point. I placed a stitch marker at the opposite half and then made a chain of 30 to serve as the crotch. I connected the chain to the other half where the stitch marker was placed and with that, I successfully divided the shorts.
From here, I continued making half double crochet stitches round one part of the shorts and I did this for another 13 rows. Next, I went to the other half of the shorts and repeated the same pattern, using the same colours of yarn.
Once I finished with the second half, I was pretty much done with the shorts. Seeing that I already used an elastic band for the waist, there was no need to attach any rope.
The last thing I did was to sew in the loose ends I didn't work over. Surprisingly, the loose ends weren't so many making this part of the job a bit easier.
Afterwards, I tried on my shorts and it was a perfect fit. I wasn't certain as to how this pair of shorts would turn out judging from the fact that I used different colours of yarn but I actually like how beautiful the final look is.
For the purpose of photography, I paired the shorts with the slim fit crochet cardigan I made sometime last year and this fit perfectly.
What do you think of this crochet pair of shorts? I will love to hear your views.
Images belong to me except stated otherwise.
