Quickie Leggings--KCWC Day 2

Please pretend that this post is on time--or is it?  Seems like I didn't post what I made yesterday.  This sacrificing sleep to sew is adversely affecting my brain.  When I was in my 20's and even early 30's I could stay up late to do some project and hop up the next morning like it was nothing.  Then 3 kids and a decade happened and now if I miss my 7+ hours of sleep I am worthless.  Like now...

So, yesterday I made some quick and cheap leggings.  You know LJ won't wear it if it's not a dress and so it's either leggings or tights under them on cold days.  I don't like fighting with tights, so I lean towards leggings.

 

I finally found a cute, store bought pattern for knit clothes--t-shirts, leggings etc.  It is Simplicity and I got it when Hancock's put their patterns on 5 for $5.  Since I'm sleep deprived I'm gonna ramble.  I used to pay a buck for a pattern and then trace it out to preserve it for use when the Peaches grew.  I finally woke up to say, Umm, yeah.  No, I'd rather be sewing than pattern tracing AAAANNNND it was a dollar.  I mean, a dollar make me hollar Honey-boo boo child, but come on.

 

So for these leggings I made one with a lettuce edge (forgive the picked out hem that I couldn't iron out, even undeprived of sleep) and

one with a ruffled edge

I also added embellishments to help Middle Peach know which is front and which is the back.  As if sparkly ruffled knit weren't comfy and appealing enough, I added a little Princess just to ensure she'd wear it.

And, on the yellow leggings, which aren't princess or sparkly enough I fear, a little piece of fabric from the dress that these are supposed to be paired with.  That was more for daddy, who will put the mustard yellow leggings with sunshine yellow and argue that any yellows go together.  Silly Man.  He also puts The Boy in dark socks pulled up to his knees with dress shorts, but that's for another post.

And, now for the crown jewel, the price tags.

The yellow leggings cost me $1.80-5% and the sparkly knit (with enough left over to make Little Peach some leggings too was $2.00.  Woo Hoo!  A Dolla-make-me-holla...