Sewing Toddler Pants out a T-shirt

Making a pair of pants for your toddler is easy.  All you need is an old t-shirt.  For this project I used one of my old shirts that are too small for me.  I tried selling the shirt at a rummage sale for 50 cents and couldn't sell it. Ha!  I had a great idea to make my daughter's pants out of my old shirt!

The first thing you will need to do is gather your supplies.

You will need:

 An old shirt

 A pair of pants that fit your child now (for the design)

Scissors

Elastic

Sewing machine

Now, you will need to lay the pair of pants like pictured below on your shirt.  Be sure to have the crotch area stick out towards the middle.

Cut out the pattern on both sides of your shirt so you have two outlines.

You will now have two pieces.

Open up your first pattern and lay the design side facing up.  You can open up your second pattern as well and lay this one right on top of the other, only lay the design side facing down.  The outside of what you want the pants to be should be touching each other. 

Now, sew the outsides of both edges as shown below.  Sew only up to where the crotch area ends.

You can see in the picture above that the seam of the pants is facing up and on the bottom side is facing down right in the middle.  Pick up the pair of pants so the seam is on the left and right, facing the sides, as shown below.  You can now tell that they are forming the shape of a pair of pants.  Pin the legs on both sides up to the crotch.

Sew the two legs and remove the pins.  You can now fold the waistline over.  This is the part where you will add the elastic.  Depending on what size elastic you have, will depend on how big you want to make the waistline.  On average, you should fold it down about 1 inch.

Pin and sew the waistline leaving about an inch open.  You can thread the elastic through the waistline now.

Now you will want to sew the elastic together and finally sew the rest of the waistline closed so your elastic stays put.

Turn your pants the right way and tada! You have just made your toddler a new pair of pants! 

My daughter did not want to try them on lol.  She was mad that she had to take a break from playing.  However, they turned out great!