Hey, you're watching with wendy. Today I'm going to show you how to make a super easy summer romper.
What makes this really easy is that it's actually technically a romper that can also be worn separately as a tank and
as a pair of shorts.
For this project, you just need about
1.5 meters of lightweight linen. I went with this fabric that is faintly red. It has some stripe designs on it.
I'm going to first show you how to make the shorts and then I'm going to make the tank top. The tank and the shorts
both feature frayed Edges. I just thought it would add a really fun summer look and also makes the tutorial even easier
Make sure you stick around until the end of the video so you see you both the shorts and the tank if you're new here
Hit subscribe, and I'll see you after the tutorial.
Starting with the fabric. This is some lightweight linen that I picked up
I really like the design on it
And I wanted the stripes to go
horizontally
I got one and a half yards in total and that should be enough for the shorts and also a tank top. Folding a part of
that fabric in half I lay down a shorts template that I had made from another pair of shorts before and
Started cutting my way around if you don't have a shorts template just lay down a pair of shorts that you already own
Copying the front side and then the back side and leaving about half an inch all the way around for the seams
I'll put a link in the description to the video where I showed how I made this template because it's
super easy
and if you want to make them for yourself it will make
Duplicating shorts in the future so much quicker because these shorts are going to be very loose
I wanted to make sure that there was enough room at the bottom in order to accommodate its flowy(ness) and
Then also on the sides I'm making it a bit wider than my original template that gets me to symmetrical front pieces now
We're going to get those two symmetrical back pieces
So I'm using the fabric that I just cut out to line up the back template so that it starts at the exact same height
On the printed part of this linen as the front piece this isn't necessary if you have no design on your linen
But because I have these stripes. I wanted them to line up all the way around again
I'm giving it a little bit of length along the bottom and also on the side so that it's more flowy
Okay, if we unfold those back pieces and put them right sides facing up
And then unfold those front pieces and place those right sides facing
Down we can sew them together along the short straight edge use a straight stitch and repeat this on both halves and this will join
them together at the inner leg
Unfold one of the pairs so that it's right sides facing up, and then lay [down] the other one right side facing down
We're going to line them up along those seams that we just created and pin them together
Then sew all the way up the right side and all the way up the left side with a straight stitch here
Just double-checking that my fabric is meeting at the right spot
so that everything stays symmetrical with these patterns lining up, I'm double-checking again that this is looking good
Yay
We're going to fold the shorts
so that they're right sides touching in the
Opposite direction and that will get you the front and the back touching each other
Throw on a few pins on the right side and the left side and sew them together with a straight stitch all the way down
The sides of the shorts since I have the pattern I double-checked again if they are matching and so far so good
Alrighty flip these shorts inside out or right side on the outside [and] they should be looking a lot like shorts
You'll want to try them on at this point to make sure they're super spacious
And they can fit over your hips because we're just going [to] add an elastic band to the waist if everything is
spacious enough to go over the hips grab the middle of the front and the middle of the back lay those on their side and
We're just going to measure from one end to the other
To know how much fabric we need for the waistband measure the distance between those two center points twice just to be safe it looks
Like mine is about nineteen and a half inches, so I'm going to cut a strip of fabric
That's a bit longer than that
I fold some leftover fabric in half to reach that 19 and a half inches and make sure it's one inch wider than the elastic
band I plan on using
if both of those are
Satisfied go ahead and cut out your strip of fabric for the waistband the first step for this waistband will be to seal it off
With the right sides together along the short Edge pin the seam to the back of the shorts
And then make your way all the way around
We're going to sew it together with a straight stitch flip the waistband so that it's covering all the raw fabric from that seam
We're going to pin it so that it's wide enough to fit the elastic band that we're going to use and it has to be
long enough to cover all the raw Edges
I sew it down with a straight stitch just
Along that seam that connects the waistband to the shorts so that it's camouflaged away when you're sewing make sure you leave a gap
so that there's enough room for you to slide in the elastic band all the way around. We'll seal off the gap later with an
elastic that fits snugly around your waist
I
Pin one of the free ends to the raw seam fabric and then put a safety pin on the other end to help me thread
It all the way around the shorts after trying it on I realized that I didn't really like the elastic
I originally chose, so I grabbed this one
That's a bit wider and threaded it through when you have those two raw Edges coming together
We're going to add a zig-zag stitch to seal off that loop tuck the elastic into the waistband and then you seal off that
Opening of the waistband using a straight stitch.Tada!
It has a waist this last step is to
Taper the bottom of the shorts so that it's at an angle that you like to trim the shorts though
you can't just cut straight across, first you have to grab that x
Seam point at the crotch pull down on that part so that it adjusts the shorts to lie in a way that will work for
Cutting them shorter then I flatten out the fabric and cut at an angle
I'm aiming to go from the inner leg up to the top of that white strip on the other side
So I just go across as straight as possible on the back side
I lift up the fabric just to make sure that seam is also nice and straight
I gave it a little bit of a trim to straighten out one of the edges then you repeat the same thing on the other
half of the leg
cutting upwards at a slant towards the point where you want it to be give them a trim to make sure they're nice and
Straight and then try on the shorts to see if they're a right length for you
I was pretty okay with the shorts at this point
and
So I flipped them inside out and sealed off that side stitch at the bottom just because when we cut into it we actually loosen
The stitch, so I wanted to make sure it was finished
I also cut off the excess little bits of fabric so that they wouldn't show and then this last step is to add a straight
Stitch all the way around the bottom edge about half an inch away from the edge
And that's just going to help us to lock down the fabric before we start fraying when that stitch is done
go ahead and start pulling on the loose threads to fray the bottom of the shorts
This is really easy with linen and cotton
Just because the way it's woven I keep pulling on the threads until they reach the point where I had laid down that stitch to
seal off the bottom and then I
Trim off the excess threads with pair of scissors here is a closer look so I'm pulling on those loose threads to go as far
as they can before they hit that stitch that I added to stabilize the fabric and then once I've pulled out a
Significant number of threads I trim them off so they all line up all this gets you a pair of shorts
but real quick
I'll show you how I made the top so that it can become a rumpert
I laid down a
Template that I already had for a top that would fit me and then cut all the way around to get the neckline the shoulders
the
Bottom and the side the bottom I made a little bit shorter than my template because my template is meant for something that goes all
The way down to the hips and then along the sides I gave it a bit more space so that it fits loosely
Instead of following the original armhole I cut it so that I was a bit more
Honest Angle
and that was just to help it to
Fit a bit more loosely and look a bit more summery with the pattern out of the way I also took this opportunity to widen
And lower the neckline and that gets you the front piece. We're going to go ahead and trace up the back piece
I lay down the front piece so that it's
completely camouflaged
with the back piece and then lay [down] the back plate on top of that and that helps to make sure that the front and
The back are going to meet at the same points along the sides
Following the shape of the back template I cut out the neckline and then why did it so that it could reach the shoulder that
I cut for the front
I followed the exact same slope as the front all the way down to the armpit of the shirt I also followed the curved shape
of the bottom and
followed the width of the side to help the front and the back of the armhole meet properly I cut a little bit deeper into
It to make the curve more perpendicular
Typically with tank tops the front cuts in a lot deeper than the back
So I was a bit more aggressive with the curve on the front
I sewed these two together along the shoulders
and then sewed them together with a straight stitch along the two sides you can flip it so that the right side is on the
Outside and then give it a try I noticed that on mine
I didn't cut the front arm holes to be wide enough
So I went in a little bit deeper on the front side my trick for cutting this out
Is that I cut it on one side?
and then take the scrap piece of fabric
flip it over to the other side and follow that to make sure it's symmetrical to finish off the neck hole I decided to cut
out my own bias tape the way you do this is you cut out one and a half inch strips on an angle with your
original Fabric
And we're going to sew these together into one big long strip and then attach that to the neck hole and that's going to help
Seal it off without any weird puckering make sure all of your strips are facing the right direction
Also, make sure that they're cut so that they're meeting on the exact same angle
We're going to sew the right sides together along that cut straight edge and that's going to get you one long strip of fabric
I've put a link below to
Another tutorial where I use this as acts a method this time when I was [doing] this I don't think the camera captured it
but basically you saw this trip to the tank all the way around once and then fold it over and sew it down with a
Straight stitch to finish off the armholes
I used a zig-zag stitch to attach a one and a half inch strip of fabric
And then frayed all of the ends like I showed before and similarly I added that one
stabilizing stitch along the bottom and then frayed the bottom of this top to be just like the shorts this gets you a
frayed tank Top
Which looks pretty cute by itself and then it can also be paired with the shorts turn into a romper so it's kind of like
three outfits in one I took the shirt into the shorts and
Together it looks complete you can sew it together if you want it to be stable
But I kind of like having them separate because it gives me more flexibility
and that's how I made a very easy summer romper another nice thing about the two pieces is that you bypass the
washroom struggle that comes with rompers compared to regular rompers is just way easier to go to the washroom in a two-piece romper if
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