Sometimes you buy stuff that's not really suitable for you, or the person you intended it for...like the cotton knit sloppy Joe (above) which I purchased many years ago for Mr HP. It's just too big and too sloppy and the hems had - well, no hems, and were just over-locked giving the garment an unfinished look!
So after having had the top floating around in the wardrobe for at least a decade and not wanting to throw it out, I decided it was time to give it new life by re-purposing into a pair of soft genie pants for Little Miss Seven.
I used the main body of the top to cut out the pants using a girl's pyjama pants pattern.
From the sleeves I cut cuffs for the pant legs and a band for the waist, using the fabric in reverse. The knit fabric is grey on one side and navy on the other which works well to give the effect of having used two different coloured fabrics.
I used another pair of Little Miss' track pants to measure the width of the the bands for the cuffs and waist, allowing extra for the seams. The height was double the finished piece. I folded them over and stitched straight onto the pants using a stretch stitch on the sewing machine.
Because the pattern used is for standard cotton fabric and not stretch/knit fabric and no elastic is used in the waist, the pants are nice and lose and my Grand Daughter just loves to lounge around the house in them. She especially loves the fact that there is no elastic in the waist.
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