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Mie from Sewing Like Mad guest blogs at Sew Country Chick with a tutorial showing how to adapt a basic shorts pattern to make a pair of culottes. To make the culottes, you need to add extra width to the legs and create a longer crotch. She includes dimensions for making a size 3T, but her instructions will work with any size of shorts. Get the how-to.
[photo from Sewing Like Mad at Sew Country Chick] Looking for more Shorts patterns? Check out these patterns we found on Etsy.
The bag is simple, uses very little fabric (about 2/3rds of a fat quarter), has no fussy inside pockets (although you can add your own if you like), and takes me well less than 30 minutes to print the pattern, cut out and sew. But quick and simple doesn’t mean it’s not awesome!
It’s the sort of bag that is versatile enough to be used for lots of applications, not just cosmetics and toiletries. Keep all your pens and pencils in order, use it for a small first aid kit for the car, keep it in your desk at work for a few headache pills and other personal supplies.
Make some for yourself, for gifts or to sell.
I want to be all cheerful and say they are so cute
however these are not culottes they are split leg skirt the difference being that culottes have it hidden that they are trouser leg and i suppose at a glance these may look like a skirt but it would not hold up for long.
i have a niece and god bless i love her but she can’t sit like a lady to save herself. She lives in box pleat culottes and i mean box pleat front and back they are so cute. i would really be interested in seeing some one doing a box pleat culottes with contrasting internal pleats for fun