Have your kids (or you!) got one too many of those novelty Onesies that continue to be so popular?
We were given a couple of hand-me-downs from my nephew which would take my boys four or five years to grow into, so I had the idea to re-make one of them into something more wearable – Tracksuit Bottoms, Hoodie and the added bonus of a pair of Slipper Boots!
It’s not a complicated refashion, but I seemed to take quite a lot of photos so I’ll split this upcycle into three posts, this being the first.
TRACKSUIT BOTTOMS
First up, I took an existing pair of well-fitting tracksuit bottoms and roughly cut the bottom half of the onesie to size.
I left plenty of space to turn up a hem and put the feet to one side for later.
A couple of inches was left at the top to add a little growing room and the top was also put to one side for later.
I started by unpicking and removing the remainder of the zip, then sewed the centre front seam closed.
There was just enough knit fabric leftover from a previous project to make a new waistband. I cut 4″ wide strips and pieced them together to measure the same as the onesie and added a seam allowance. The short ends were sewn right sides together to make a circle.
The new waistband was sewn right sides together with the onesie and the raw edge was overlocked.
The seam was pressed up towards the waistband.
The waistband was folded to the inside where the raw edge was pinned over the seam, enclosing the raw edges and extending over by about 1cm.
I stitched in the ‘ditch’ from the right side, leaving a gap at the centre back to thread the elastic.
I stitched again in the middle, leaving another gap for the elastic.
A final row of top stitching finishes off the top edge neatly.
Two pieces of 1/2″ wide elastic were cut to my son’s waist measurement and threaded through the channels using a safety pin.
The ends of the elastic were sewn together by hand and the gaps in the top stitching were sewn closed by machine.
For the bottom hems, I just overlocked the raw edges and sewed a small hem leaving a gap to thread through some 1/4″ wide elastic.
Et Voilá!
A perfectly good pair of tracksuit bottoms.
Ok, so the T-shirt doesn’t go with them very well, but No.3 son doesn’t care!
So there you go – how to refashion/upcycle an old onesie into a pair of tracksuit (jogging) bottoms:)
Next Post: HOODIE
March 26, 2015 at 2:53 pm
Ooh great idea! We’re a onesie-free house but if we do ever get one and it gets too small I will chop it in half! 🙂
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March 27, 2015 at 10:53 am
How have you managed to live onesie-free? They’re like giant, draught free babygros – my son wears his all the time in his cold Uni digs. Not that I’d be seen dead in one you understand:)
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March 27, 2015 at 11:03 am
Honestly because I can’t be doing with taking half the thing off to go to the toilet!! (That goes for me and my daughter) And I like my dressing gown so I don’t feel like I really need one… like you I wouldn’t be seen dead in one and I’m in and out all the time lol.
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March 26, 2015 at 7:24 pm
What a cool upgrade xx
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March 26, 2015 at 7:50 pm
My sons got a couple but when he grows out of them they’ll fit me! I’ve tried on the monkey one already, I look a buggar!!
Your No 3 son looks a cheeky chappie! 😃
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March 27, 2015 at 10:55 am
My son wears his loads in his draughty Uni digs, but I haven’t succumbed to this dubious piece of fashion as yet:)
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March 27, 2015 at 11:20 am
H has requested a onsie with shorts, a hoodie & no sleeves, so ice just ordered some grey sweat shirting from minerva – it’s the first time
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March 27, 2015 at 11:57 am
WHY?? I am picturing my husband in that now – oh dear!
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March 27, 2015 at 11:21 am
Oops. Don’t know what happened there, I was just gonna add that I’d best strike whilst the irons hot cos he’s never really asked for anything before, and this will have to be super cool or he won’t be asking me again! 😀
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March 26, 2015 at 10:38 pm
What a brilliant bit of up-cycling ;-)…I shouldn’t be surprised if they become number 3 son’s favourite comfy pants…especially as the weather is still quite cool – such a clever mum!! 😀
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March 27, 2015 at 4:35 pm
Great idea! The slippers are brilliant!
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March 28, 2015 at 6:08 pm
Thanks, it’s better than waiting five years for him to grow into the onesie – he might as well get some use out of it now:)
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March 29, 2015 at 2:19 pm
Absolutely – and in five years time onesies may well be so five years ago.
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