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Keep your legs warm and comfy
My boyfriend obtained 4 bathrobes from his study, 2 for him and 2 for me.
Well, you can't wear two bathrobes as one but they were both too short to keep my legs warm so I decided to turn one of them into a pair of trousers.
These are not flattering or fit pants. They are wide, baggy but very comfortable and great for a day you don't have to go anywhere and expect no visitors.
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Charity M. added Bathrobe To House Pants to Cut Out + Keep Layout
29 Apr 18:58
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Sasha A. added Bathrobe To House Pants to Helpful / Techniques
22 Mar 20:18
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Step 1Take your bathrobe and remove the 'belt'. Lay the robe on a large flat surface (floor).
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Step 2Take a pair of jeans that fit you and see if they fit twice into your bathrobe.
Now lay out the bathrobe inside out (for easier cutting, pinning and sewing later) with the front closed.
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Step 3Put the straight(est) seam of your jeans to the side seam of your bathrobe.
Leave a little room for a looser fit.
ATTENTION: make sure your jeans do not extend over the center of the bathrobe back. Or else prepare for some improvisation sewing.
I made this mistake and had to add pieces of fabric to the crotch area of one of the legs... -
Step 4Take a bit of extra room on the top and butt part of your jeans.
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Step 5Cut out the leg, sew the side seam (where the side seam of the bathrobe ended) and the inner leg seam. Do not sew the crotch or the top!
Now lay your jeans on the other side of the bathrobe and repeat steps 3 to 5.
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Step 6When you have two separate legs turn one of them right side out and leave the other wrong side out.
Then put the one with the right side out into the other, lining up the crotch edges. This way you have your fabric right on right.
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Step 7Sew the crotch line and turn the pants right side out. Now it's starting to look like something.
Try it on to see if it fits you like you want it to. It is probably too wide.
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Step 8Get the belt of the bathrobe and pin it onto the waistline of your pants. Leave a gap on the front (or wherever you want your closure...) so that you have room to actually tie the belt.
Having this 'hole' on the front makes the pants gather there so you have wrinkles on the front of your pants. This is unflattering but hey, these are comfortable pants for a leisurely day around the house. Nobody has to see this. And you'll be wearing your other bathrobe over it, right? ;-)
Sew the belt on.
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Step 9E voila, finished!
You can see the pockets of the bathrobe are on the knees of the pants. The loops where the belt used to go through are still there as well.
You can remove them but I chose to keep them.
Comments
I think I might try this if I have an extra bathrobe
