I wanted to try this out myself since I had some dreaded jeans that I wanted to transform.
If you had read my previous blog post about sewing, you will see me use in this blog post the old collars of my cousins dresses as the "lace".
This was the pairs of jeans that I never wore. They were an okay color but they fit weirdly and were uncomfortable.
They were also bedazzled with these gems and I did not like that. I don't really enjoy having bling on my clothes unlike some people. It's just not my sense of style.
Henceforth, I had to get rid of the bling and then I cut the jean into shorts.
This recipe for short called for some slitting at the sides and I had to place a pin to create a boundary so that my slit would not find itself too high up my thigh to be considered decent.
I also cut a bit of the material out of the inside of the slits I made to make the cut a wee bit more dramatic. I knew that the lace would cover it up anyhow so I wanted to highlight the lace a bit more through having a larger part of the shorts to be just lace.
This is the lace collar that I salvaged from my cousin's dress that I had altered earlier. It was a convenient coincidence that the colors matched pretty well. :)
I placed the lace onto the sides of my short see where it would fit and how, and I ended up using only one collar and cutting it in half.
So then I pinned the lace to the shorts and put it through the machine! The sewing machine is always the exciting part for me because it just puts everything together.
I also frayed the ends of my short as well because I didn't really like the clean-cut shorts look. I just wanted to have a balance between nice and girly with the lace and a little rebel in the frayed strands that would loosely hang.
That is the finished look and I hoped that you enjoyed this blog! I'm sure I'll wear these shorts much, much, MUCH more often then their past life jeans.
