Off season? Maybe I could.....Make yoga pants out of a T-shirt

Inspired by http://www.blackfawnart.com/2010/01/recon-tutorial-t-shirt-to-yogalounge-pants.html

This was basically an attempt to try using my great grandmother´s sewing machine after 4 or more stitchless years in a way that would have a quick,though far from perfect final project that I could wear and feel encouraged by.

Since I had 2 free medium Future Farmers of America T-shirts just sitting around from a convention I worked last week, it seemed like a good project.

Time: approx 1 hr
Materials: 1 T-shirt, scissors, sewing machine, thread
Cost: $0
Satisfaction: * * *
What I learned: You don´t need a pattern to sew, but it might fit better if you do. The crotch of pants is tricky to sew. Spend longer on the waistband, it would have made them look much more professional. You can make wearable things in under an hour with an old school Sears Kenmore sewing machine.

Off season? Maybe I could.....

Colorado has 2 main tourist draws: Summer and Winter. Hiking/Biking/Horseback Riding and Skiing/Snowboarding.

November is a terrible time for all of those things. So as a person currently working in the service industry at a Colorado guest ranch who´s not quite strong enough to build fences quickly or experienced enough to take care of the horses, that leaves me with about a month to move back home before my employment begins again in early December.

As someone who doesn´t (refuses to? can´t mentally?) get bored,a month is the perfect amount of time to reconnect with some people in Indiana, explore the city,and spend hours reading books, talking on Skype, cooking for my mom,and finding projects for myself. So my room and style lately have both turned into disasters of colors, chopped up fabric, weird buttons, screwdrivers, glue sticks,and spray paint.


This is the inspiration for the ¨Off Season? Maybe I could...¨ series. A collecting place for the good, the bad, and the ugly of my DIY endeavors this off season.