DIY Embroidered Biker Shorts

Converting leggings to biker shorts is a fun way to upcycle your clothes. Now, that the summer season is almost here, this would be a good project to do and to save your old, ripped leggings too! Additionally, adding some embroidery to your biker shorts enhances your biker shorts. In this example, two hearts were embroidered onto the biker shorts. Here is the tutorial for making these leggings into embroidered biker shorts.

Materials:

Scissors

Old pair of leggings

Embroidery Hoop

Thread

Embroidery Floss Thread

Embroidery needles

Regular sewing needles

Fabric Marker

Stencil with small to medium shapes

First, wash a pair of old leggings by hand. Second, hang dry the leggings. Once the leggings are dry, lay the leggings flat. Third, follow the instructions from the YouTube video link that I have provided below the tutorial. Fourth, cut the leggings to the desired length that you want your biker shorts to be. Fifth, make sure both sides are even before hemming the shorts.

Use a sewing machine or sew by hand to hem the bottom portion of the shorts. In this example, the hem was sewn by hand. After that is done, you can begin embroidering your biker shorts. Insert an embroidery hoop inside your biker shorts. Then, insert embroidery thread inside the embroidery needle. Use a fabric marker and a stencil to make the heart shape onto the biker shorts or make the heart shape without the stencil.

Insert the embroidery needle inside the fabric of the biker shorts. Continue embroidering until you have the heart shape or until all the lines of the marker are covered. Then, repeat the same steps for the second embroidered heart. Do not embroider near the elastic of the biker shorts. Have fun making your embroidered biker shorts. Here are the links for making your biker shorts and more ideas for decorating your biker shorts.

 

Re-purpose Ruined Leggings-Sew Them into Bike Shorts:

http://www.threadridinghood.com/wordpress/re-purpose-ruined-leggings-sew-them-into-bike-shorts-tutorial/

Cut Leggings into Shorts-DIY:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAFUFX9KI7Y

Upcycle Old Leggings into New Shorts:

https://www.pennypinchinmom.com/upcycle-old-leggings-into-new-shorts/

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