Which now brings me up to 5 wardrobes! Regular clothes, winter pregnancy clothes, summer pregnancy clothes, formal/working pregnancy clothes (from while I was student teaching and pregnant with my second) and the awkward after pregnancy clothes when your stomach has shrunk but not quite enough to fit in your old jeans yet.
I promise I'm not a "high maintenance" kind of person, but after that last paragraph, I'm starting to feel like one... Sorry John. lol.
So, while pulling out my pregnancy clothes this time around, I realized that I didn't really have many summer pregnancy clothes since my last summer pregnancy was mostly spent in work clothes.
Even with my mostly cheap shopping preferences, I ended up trying on some new pregnancy jeans from Target and unfortunately, I was not impressed... I was so excited that they had some that didn't go over the entire stomach or have an elastic waste the entire way around your stomach. I was expecting these new inset panel pregnancy jeans to be amazing! However, I'm usually a size 7 in jeans and even the size 4's were extremely baggy at the top while being just a little too tight on my legs. I could immediately tell that these jeans were going to sag and look horrible... and they were $30!
That was when I decided to go back to the thought of making my own pregnancy jeans.
Thankfully, I found a video by "What's Up Moms" on how to make your own inset pregnancy jeans that looked pretty easy. After a bit of procrastinating (and finally giving in to the fact that I could no longer button my stretchier jeans... Haha!) I finally got around to making these jeans (which I'm also wearing in my post about our next baby's gender) and I am so glad I did!
They were super easy, relatively quick to make, and fit perfectly! I am seriously going to make three more pairs when summer is over and I need long jeans to wear again.
To make these jeans, I used jeans that had a slightly stretchier fabric and followed the directions in the video by cutting out the pockets (but only cutting low enough so the elastic would fill the space without leaving a gap). I then cut the elastic a little wider than the new hole and then sewed the elastic into place. I tried to sew the elastic into the jeans so it wouldn't add any extra length around the waist. That way, the jeans were still able to stretch around my waist but didn't look or feel baggy.
These jeans were $5 from D.I. and the elastic I sewed into them was about $1 or $2 (the elastic was about $6.50 total, but I still have enough to make maybe 4 or 5 more pregnancy jeans out of it). That definitely beats $30 jeans that didn't even fit right!
By the way... It was super windy on our walk and Brooke was trying so hard to smile in that first picture! So, here's a bonus picture of her once we got to the park and she got to play! I know I'm biased because I'm her mom, but I'm pretty sure she's the cutest little girl in the world... just sayin'.
No comments:
Post a Comment