Children's Place coupon code: Cute and Easy Girls’ Short Patterns

Summer is approaching, or at least I hope it is. And with summer comes short clothes. I have a girly-girl (she doesn’t get that from her mother, I assure you), and she loves to wear skirts and dresses. The problem is, she’s a very (very) active girly-girl and they stop making skirts with underthings attached around 4T.

Sometimes you can find them in bigger sizes, but it takes super sleuth skills. Often I solve the problem with some little bike shorts or leggings underneath. This, however, means being able to find said pair of shorts or leggings, and laundry isn’t my strong suit.

So here I have dug up some skort patterns from around the web. I hope to give a few of them a try for my acrobatic girl so she can flip and twirl all summer long, while keeping her undies, well, under.

Free Skort Tutorials

I love finding patterns for free. There are some amazing seamstresses out there who love to bless people with their creations. The one drawback to tutorials is that they are often one size and offer direction, not necessarily instruction. I say that I only pretend like I know how to sew, and often times I do just fine with a tutorial.

All of these patterns call for knit fabric. This means it stretches, and it also will not fray. For some tutorials you’ll see the designer didn’t hem the bottom, and this is because knit fabrics will typically just curl up, they won’t fray. Some people find they like using a serger for projects like these.

Also keep in mind that when you’re sewing with knit fabrics you have to watch your thread tension or you’ll pucker or stretch out the fabric. If you haven’t sewn with knits before, just go slowly at first. And hey, if it isn’t prefect, she’ll have outgrown it by next season anyway!

Rainbow Circle Skort from The TipToe Fairy

Fabric dimensions are given for a size 2T/3T, but the pattern could be upscaled for a bigger child. The only drawback I see to this pattern is that you need a lot of fabric. You’re essentially cutting circles of fabric to make tiers, which takes up more fabric, and you’re using several colors (hence the “rainbow”. If you have a lot of knit fabric around, this is an absolutely adorable tutorial. You also need to draft your own shorts pattern.

Fabric Requirements: 1/2 yd of 6 colors of knit fabric, thread, non-roll elastic
Draft own pattern
Summer Skirt Tutorial from Creative Spaces

For this pattern you must also draft your own pattern pieces, but the designer gives you detailed, step by step instructions on how to do so. It’s a cute pattern, and looks like it would come together very quickly. Especially if you save your pattern after it’s drafted and you use those pattern pieces on others. You could do a lot to “jazz” it up as well.

Materials: 1/2 yard knit fabric, thread, non-roll elastic
Draft own pattern

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