SEW – Madras Checks Shorts

Roller Skate Shorts

Ms H goes for roller skating practise 3 times a week, where she has to wear short sleeved shirt and shorts. Since one of her regular shorts is becoming a bit small its time to replace it with a new one.
“Sew Chic Kids” Pattern I to the rescue. All the small details make the shorts super nice and less homemade. I am very proud how this pair turned out. She already wore the shorts to the practise and gave a big thumbs-up. May be i should stop buying shorts in store for the girls after this and start making every pair for them 🙂

Pattern: SEW CHIC KIDS pattern I
Size: 110cm (leg length 100cm)
Fabric: Mill made cotton Madras Checks from Cotton St.
Notes: 
Legs were cut at 100cm line by accident, so they are a bit short than they are supposed to be.
Changed the waistband to 2 piece waistband. This is an easy modification to introduce some fun element. The same was done for Ms J’s Denim shorts.

No inner leg tabs.
Back Pockets, Tabs, Outer waistband are done in lightweight denim.
Button-Hole elastic instead of regular elastic waistband. I did apply some interfacing before making the button holes on the waistband for the elastic.

1/4″ was added to the leg length, to hem it without exposed edges.

The tab buttons are salvaged from Mr A’s old Levis shirt.

Tried my best to match the plaid… totally forgot to match the vertical lines in the pockets 😉
Should have interfaced the front of the waistband, the buttons kind of pull it a bit.

Ms H wants a bow in the front, as her sister’s shorts have one and i am not sure of that…. might add if she insists on one though 🙂