Boxer shorts

I must have blinked my eyes, but suddenly onesies became obsolete in this house. Boxers, that’s what we needed. Where did my baby go? Suddenly, there’s this savvy toddler dominating this household…

The idealistic me wanted to make a whole series of boxershorts herself. The realist in me knows I can’t work magic, and only made one (and bought the rest at Hema).

The pattern was published in the January 2013 Ottobre. The fabric is Lillestoff jersey that I bought a while ago at De Stoffenkamer. You may recognise it from, oh yes, this onesie.

The legs of this boxer are pretty long. The ones I bought are definitely shorter. But I like this long version. And if you want a shorter version, you can always just cut them shorter.

The description says to put the different parts on top of each other, both good sides facing up, and to sew them with a coverlock. That I don’t have. As an alternative, they say to use a flatlock stitch. My machine doesn’t seem to have that either (or it uses a synonym and I wouldn’t know what that would be). In the end, I opted for some sort of herringbone stitch.

And would you look at that, even the design runs through!