Boy's clothes from scraps?

[natural_mama89]

I can find all kinds of cute patchwork girls dress patterns and such, but nothing for little boys. I am sewing all my kids' clothes until I run out of fabric, and a lot of the scraps I have are only big enough for patchwork, or for appliques, I have been making a lot of appliques as well as using contrasting fabric for binding, etc. What else can I use these scraps for in the process of sewing boyish childrens' clothing?

[Panthira]

I'd be interested as well... I know there are patchwork camp shirts, but I've never made anything like that, nor would know how!

[rebeccalizzie]

DS has a pair of patchwork shorts, they were all over the stores this summer. There are also patchy pants--basically a pair of pants with a row of patches down the sides. I really love the look.

[leighi123]

I'd say just start sewing patches together, like a quilt, I would do just rows of squares.

Then use the peice of patchwork fabric like you would a solid peice to make clothes, shirt/pants etc.

I've made patchwork hats that way, and those pants w/a strip made of patches running up the side.

[sabrinat]

Originally Posted by rebeccalizzie

DS has a pair of patchwork shorts, they were all over the stores this summer. There are also patchy pants--basically a pair of pants with a row of patches down the sides. I really love the look.

Yeah. what about either of those. I think it would look super cute.

[orangefoot]

Originally Posted by rebeccalizzie

There are also patchy pants--basically a pair of pants with a row of patches down the sides. I really love the look.

There's a tute for that somewhere..... You can either sew a strip of patches onto the trouser leg from top to bottom or add a strip of patches between the front and back leg pieces then sew as one piece.

Here's one for adding strips at the bottom of trousers

[luv-my-boys]

I saw that patchwork type fabric this summer too in a high end children boutique. It was a little shortall and super cute. I would say if you have pants that are outgrown (too short) you could add a cuff to them and then use iron on fusing to make a cute applique type shape and iron them and applique around edges to the knees. I did this with an overall that DS had outgrown lenght wise but I added the cuff and dinosuar appliques and it was super cute.