Sewing Adventures – Pre Printed Tights panels from Pitt Trading

After the success of my coloured Jalie tights I was on the lookout for some more fabric that was suitable for tights and Bam a huge selection arrived at Pitt Trading.

Pitt Trading buy excess fabric from many high end designers so you can access some incredible fabrics, these came from a high end Yoga design firm and they are lush. Thick but not too thick, don’t grin white when stretched and a nice amount of breathability and stretch.

Many of the panels come pre printed so it’s pretty much a case of cut out and go. Some of the panels were printed oddly so across the width you’d only get 3 right legs.

Both the pink pairs were like that. Now this is one of those times where being short rocks! I used my Nike run tights as a rough guide and by lining them up at the crotch and not the waistband I managed to cut a right leg panel into a left leg panel. It worked because I could shuffle it down so I was pretty excited, plus I had a cute catternweight to help. If you are longer limbed it would work just as well you just might not get full length ones?

On the black/pink spot ones I feel like the ankle could be a little narrower so I’ll probably skim them in a bit more.

Sewing wise I used the 4 thread overlocker for the inside leg and crotch seams, waistbands were overlocker together at the top edge while adding in some 6mm swimwear rubber. Turn the right way out and used the coverstitch to twin needle the top edge. The bottom edges were then placed together and overlocked straight onto the tights. I’ve kept my waistbands nice and high to hold everything in and as a result am getting no irritation around my scar or the areas where I have some residual issues from surgery.

The hems were then finished with the coverstitch machine.

A super fast super satisfying make and they spurred me into action and I’ve  been running again! Am taking it slow and relearning how to do some things now my body is operating with less muscles (literally) but overall it’s going pretty well.

Pattern: mostly from the pre printed tights with a little bit of help from a RTW pair

Fabric: Pre printed tights panels from Pitt Trading

Alterations: the cherry blossom ones are the best waistband, next time just copy everything I did on that one.