Comments on: Tutorial: Adult Sweater to Child Leggings

By: Cindy

Cindy — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:52:26 +0000

If they need mending, or even if not (since it might be cute), you could hand stitch patches to certain areas. Also, you could sew a cuff & loop to the top to hang it from, and sew or embroider on other designs, and also the name of the person.

By: Pumpkinbear

Pumpkinbear — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:42:00 +0000

It’s really not so bad, so I’m betting you can figure it out when you’ve got that sweater sleeve in front of you.

You’re going to measure up from the wrist of the sweater, until you have the right length for your pants. Then you’re going to use a pair of your own kid’s well-fitting pants as a pattern for the crotch, so fold that pair in half–see how the crotch seam curves out to make room for your kid’s butt? Lay it over the sweater sleeve at the top of the length that you marked, with the bottom corner of the crotch curve on the inner-arm side of the sweater sleeve, and the waistband on the shoulder side.

Since knit material is so forgiving, if the sweater sleeve isn’t long enough to allow you to fit your whole kid’s pants pattern on it all the way up to the waistband, then you can rotate your kid’s pants pattern up onto the uncut shoulder of the sweater quite a bit, keeping that bottom crotch corner in the same spot, allowing you to sneak in a wider waist for the pants.

The other fun thing about these pants is that, since you didn’t cut out a front half and a back half for the pants, they’re reversible! Kids can put them on independently without worrying about getting them backwards. Good thing that kids are such straight little noodles, because that would never work for me!

By: Samccreary

Samccreary — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:37:00 +0000

A picture of the crotch cutting steps would be most helpful to understand the positioning, especially when using a sweater that has already been cut up for the skirt. This just might be so simple that I’m over-thining it…

By: Cnelson3670

Cnelson3670 — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:03:00 +0000

a couple of pictures would have really helped.

By: Jls582

Jls582 — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 03:51:00 +0000

could you show pics for the steps? i’m a little confused.

By: Sweater Girl Leggings | snugglebugblog.com

Sweater Girl Leggings | snugglebugblog.com — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:07:25 +0000

[...] promised, here are the leggings I made in a jiffy for Petunia yesterday. I followed this tutorial over at crafting a green world . She did such a great job with this tutorial, I have nothing to [...]

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5 Fun Holiday Craft Ideas - Earth911.com — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:02:35 +0000

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By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:30:02 +0000

Any idea how I could transform old hockey socks into christmas stockings?

By: What’s Going On

What’s Going On — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:55:34 +0000

[...] Crafting a Green World has fantastic instructions for making a pair of kids leggings from an old sweater. [...]

By: raya

raya — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:47:19 +0000

as we can all see – kids are realy useful these days…

I am kidding of course, your ideas are wonderful! please keep up the good work