{"id":10089,"date":"2014-02-20T10:20:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T15:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oliverands.com\/blog\/?p=10089"},"modified":"2018-11-28T14:52:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T19:52:15","slug":"customizing-the-leggings-those-playground-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2014\/02\/customizing-the-leggings-those-playground-shorts.html","title":{"rendered":"customizing the leggings: those playground shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m kind of cheating with today&#8217;s post, because it&#8217;s a repeat of an older post. But it&#8217;s totally relevant to customizing the leggings pattern, so I thought it would be helpful to show it again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oliverands.com\/blog\/content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Legging_Shorts_web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10091\" alt=\"Legging_Shorts_web\" src=\"\/\/o.osimg.net\/blog\/content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Legging_Shorts_web-580x251.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"\/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Legging_Shorts_web-580x251.jpg 580w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Legging_Shorts_web-275x119.jpg 275w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Legging_Shorts_web.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I sew a lot of leggings for S. She wears them instead of tights in the winter, and she also wears them as an extra layer of insulation when it gets really cold out&#8211;like long underwear. (This winter they&#8217;ve gotten a lot of use.) But during the rest of the year, we make a lot of &#8220;playground shorts&#8221; because she wears them under her skirts and dresses. Like this:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oliverands.com\/blog\/content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/bike-shorts-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7974\" alt=\"bike-shorts-3\" src=\"\/\/o.osimg.net\/blog\/content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/bike-shorts-3-568x800.jpg\" width=\"568\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"\/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/bike-shorts-3-568x800.jpg 568w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/bike-shorts-3-195x275.jpg 195w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/bike-shorts-3.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is a really easy change to make to the leggings pattern, and you can read about it <a href=\"http:\/\/oliverands.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/customizing-with-oliver-s-playtime-leggings-as-playground-shorts.html\">right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I&#8217;m going to put on my own long underwear and drive through all this Michigan snow to spend some time with my grandma. See you tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our customizing series for the Playtime Leggings sewing pattern, here&#8217;s an older tutorial about converting the leggings to cute little playground shorts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20687],"tags":[112],"class_list":["post-10089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-playtime"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Legging_Shorts_web.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5jZS5-2CJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7971,"url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2013\/09\/customizing-with-oliver-s-playtime-leggings-as-playground-shorts.html","url_meta":{"origin":10089,"position":0},"title":"customizing with oliver + s: playtime leggings as playground shorts","author":"Liesl Gibson","date":"September 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a quick and easy pattern change that will let you use our Playtime Leggings sewing pattern and turn it into cute little playground shorts that can be worn under skirts and dresses.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;tutorials&quot;","block_context":{"text":"tutorials","link":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/list\/tutorials"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oliverands.com\/community\/content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/playtimeshortsT.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10073,"url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2014\/02\/customizing-playtime-leggings-sewing-pattern.html","url_meta":{"origin":10089,"position":1},"title":"customizing: playtime leggings sewing pattern","author":"Liesl Gibson","date":"February 19, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Now that we've released the Playtime Leggings pattern as an Oliver + S Singles patterns, let's take a look at all the different things you can do with it!","rel":"","context":"In &quot;general post&quot;","block_context":{"text":"general post","link":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/list\/general"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oliverands.com\/community\/content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/dsc_0149.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":48084,"url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2015\/06\/customizing-the-playtime-leggings-iron-on-images.html","url_meta":{"origin":10089,"position":2},"title":"customizing the playtime leggings: iron-on images","author":"Rachel Le Grand","date":"June 22, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Thanks to Brienne, we have a nice tutorial on how to add an iron-on transfer image to the knees of the Oliver + S Playtime Leggings. 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