DIY Maternity clothes

wagvan

I just rediscovered a great website that has all kinds of ideas to DIY maternity clothes.  Most of them involve simple sewing.  (Like if you can thread a sewing machine and sew a straight line, you can do it, or you could even hand sew them) and a few are no-sew items.  Most of them are for upcycling thrifted/your husband's/your non maternity clothes into maternity clothes.  It is done by Megan Nielsen, who has fabulous maternity clothes patterns. And FYI (it doesn't tell you on this site) if you want to actually pay and buy a Megan Nielsen maternity pattern (which are kinda spendy) she has a couple of her patterns that were put out by Simplicity pattern company.  I got them when they were on sale at JoAnns for $1 each.  If you want I can go look up the pattern # of the Simplicity ones.  Anyhow, here is the DIY site: https://diymaternity.com/index/

wagvan

Here are the Simplicity pattern #s:
https://www.simplicity.com/p-11685-misses-knit-maternity-tops.aspx and https://www.simplicity.com/p-11686-maternity-and-nursing-knit-top-or-dress.aspx  the nice thing about them is they are set up as nursing shirts as well!

NoelBird

Those DIY shirts are pretty amazing, if I had any sort of sewing skills I might attempt them. I would definately wear all of those.

wagvan

Yeah, I thought they were cute too!  Maybe find a crafty friend to help you!

elsantia

I just found this tutorial for DIY maternity jeans, it looks pretty simple and doesn't require much in the way of materials or sewing skills..I'm going to try it this weekend and let you all know how it goes.

https://www.blogher.com/diy-maternity-jeans?page=full

kwinsor85

I have already made 4 belly bands out of cheap Walmart tank tops (found the tutorial on pinterest and LOVE how they turned out!)

tndwiel

Thanks so much for this link! I was looking forward to sewing many things for baby, but now I can also look forward to making a few things for myself too!