How to sew leggings?

Currently, leggings have started gaining their former popularity. Not surprisingly, because such a garment is not only very practical and convenient, but it also strikingly clearly emphasizes all the dignity of the female figure. Many needlewomen have often thought about how to sew the leggings themselves. You will learn about this from this article.

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Types of leggings

There are several kinds of such garment:

• Classics. Such models can be worn under skirts or dresses, or can be separately.
• Capri. Their length is slightly less than that of classic models - approximately to the ankle or slightly higher. Usually such models have bright colors. Many girls wear them with a mini-skirt.
• Evening. Such models can have different laces, sequins, other decorative elements.
• Sports. Ideal for physical exertion.
• Jeggins( jeans + leggings).This garment made of knitwear, similar to its kind on natural jeans, is made. Such models are very similar to real jeans, but the lines of their legs are much softer and stronger.
• Treggins. This model is similar to the previous one, however, it parodies not jeans, but classic trousers, that is, it is made of the same material.

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With what to combine?

As mentioned, such clothing is not only designed to play sports - it can be worn and as an addition to the daily routine. To complement the bow, you can wear long T-shirts, tunics, elongated models of pullovers, all kinds of sweaters, dresses and skirts. You can easily combine all kinds of images.

Before sewing leggings with your own hands, you need to understand what kind of shoes they are better to wear. Together with such a garment is better to wear:

• Ballet flats.
• Shoes.
• Ankle boots.
• High boots with heel, wedge or flat sole.
• Sneakers - only with sports models.

Important! All these types of shoes should have a closed nose.

Also, if you wear such a piece of clothing, you must follow several rules:

• If you wear such a piece of clothing with a skirt or dress, make sure that the length of the leggings is less than the length of the hem.
• Unacceptable combination with sneakers. The exception is the sports model.
• You should not wear leopard-style clothes if the model already has such a coloring.
• If you have extra weight, combine the leggings with the voluminous top.

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Manufacturer

For further work you need to stock up with the listed materials:

• Jacquard knitted fabric.
• Elastic band - it will be needed for the belt.

Now you can easily start making, even without using a pattern. In order to sew the leggings, you must follow the algorithm:

• Take the old leggings and attach them to the fabric.
• Circle the attached garment. It is better to attach it to the edge of the fabric, then to not create additional seams.
• Carve out two such details.
• Secure the inner seam with safety pins on both legs.
• Sew the internal seams using a sewing machine.
• Treat the edges with a zigzag weld.
• Tuck the trouser leg in, open the middle seam of the product with safety pins.
• Go through this seam machine, process the ends with a zigzag seam or overlock.
• Cut a piece of cloth with a size of 68 by 17 cm - it will be the workpiece of the belt.

Important! Take into account the dimensions of your waist, adding to this figure a couple of centimeters on the allowance for seams.

• Sew the strip in half, unscrew. Get a full belt.
• Poke the belt with the same English pins to the not yet finished product.
• Sew it on the front of the shirt with an elastic seam, having worked the edges.
• Fold the bottom edges of the pants, sew them, the edges are zigzagged.
• Insert the elastic band into the belt, walk along it with an elastic band.

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Leggings for toddler

In order to sew the leggings with your own hands, you need to prepare an old T-shirt - from it, and panties will be made.

The process of further work is very simple:

• Find a ready-made pattern suitable for your kid's size, attach it to the T-shirt so that the bottom edge of the paper pattern coincides with the bottom edge of the prepared T-shirt.
• Cut out the details.
• Fold the part in half so that the inside is out.
• Sew the inner seam of the future leg.

Important! In the sewing machine it is better to use a seam for knitwear.

• Do the same with the second leg.
• Unscrew one leg so that the front side looks outward, insert this leg into the other, glue them together with safety pins and sew them together.
• Now it is necessary to sew the elastic band to the product. It should be sewn to the edge of the fabric, slightly tightening during the process, after which the rubber band is folded inside and stitched again.

Gift for the baby is ready!

From this article you learned two ways how to sew leggings for yourself and for your baby. Over time, you can learn to make more complex models, the further sock of which will please both you and the surrounding people.