Happy #NeedleWorkMonday needleworkers!!
Oh wow, it is the last day of 2018!!
A new year means new school uniforms and I was given an opportunity to alter my nephew's new trousers which were intentionally bought larger so that he can wear it a little longer as he grows up fast.
The challenge was to tighten the waistline a little and shorten the length without any cutting, just add ons so that they can be easily removed when the time comes and the boy will get to wear it longer.
Tackling the waist
The waistband for the school uniform consists of an elastic at the back of waist and a cardboard-like-feel in the front with a hook and bar fastener like this one:
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And because I cannot cut anything, I decided to add on additional elastic at the back of each side and sew on a additional bar for its hook and bar fastener.
The waistline needed to be smaller by 1/2 inches on each side. Initially, I wanted to insert the additional elastic into the cardboard-like waistband but I wasn't sure how the effect was to the cardboard-like piece. So, I sewed black elastics to each side of the waist back part, so as to not disturb the trousers much.
I was wondering too if elastics on elastic would work but I did not have much of a choice.
At the front, I sewed a "thread" bar because I did not have a spare bar:
I basically sewed repeatedly in T shape on both sides of the "bar" to create a thin enough but sturdy enough bar for the hook to go through.
Tackling the length
The trousers need to be shortened by 2 folds. I folded them and then sewed them with hidden stitches (or as hidden as my sewing can be 😅):
There was a challenge with the leg part because of its shape which then causes the fold to not be that even but hopefully, it can be camouflaged as creases 😁.
The thread I used was as near possible color as I could find in my stash of thread. Luckily there was a dark army green thread hidden in the stash.
Once I was done with the first pair, I asked my nephew to give it a try and it fits! Off I went on to work on the 2nd pair 😊.
Sorry, in all my excitement, I forgot to take a photo of the altered trousers and have already passed them to my nephew 😄.
In the midst of it all, I sewed 2 more summer dresses (I shared a post on this dress earlier this year) because it is almost always summer here:
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