{"id":1659,"date":"2011-06-17T23:13:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T04:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=1659"},"modified":"2011-06-17T23:14:40","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T04:14:40","slug":"celebrate-the-boy-pajama-shorts-aka-boxer-briefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=1659","title":{"rendered":"celebrate the boy:  pajama shorts (aka: boxer briefs)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dana-made-it.com\/2011\/06\/celebrate-summer-boy-impromptu-week.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Celebrate the [summer] Boy\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-J4TYB3BhfI8\/Tekshyj-OKI\/AAAAAAAAq_E\/r8UxKWvikI0\/s550\/summer%2Bgraphice1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>during the february celebrate the boy month, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sewastraightline.com\/2011\/03\/lets-celebrate-with-underwear.html\">one of the guest bloggers (from &#8220;sew a straight line&#8221;) posted a great pattern and tutorial about how to make boxer briefs from t-shirts<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 of course, baby dude is still in diapers and doesn&#8217;t wear boxer briefs (especially not in a size 3\/4), but i thought that the larger size might allow them to fit over a big ol&#8217; diaper butt and that they&#8217;d make pretty cute jammy bottoms.\u00c2\u00a0 and&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"so right\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-wDzYkJCjfU4\/TfwjEYXGnqI\/AAAAAAAASdo\/_FxrxP6Jyo8\/s720\/IMGP0072.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"282\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i was right!\u00c2\u00a0 (apologies for the blur.\u00c2\u00a0 this is one busy toddler!)\u00c2\u00a0 this was the original shirt (most of which had already been chopped up to make a monster shirt for my nephew&#8217;s birthday):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"the shirt\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-8c_NihWaaUc\/TfQ-fbnXUPI\/AAAAAAAASX8\/nbcR6HCcSnQ\/s720\/_IGP8446.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"290\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and here&#8217;s my favorite part:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"the back\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-W2WPGQokY9o\/TfwjDmADEVI\/AAAAAAAASdg\/Cd8ni3wX2gc\/s720\/IMGP0071.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"438\" height=\"290\" \/><\/p>\n<p>one of my favorite details about this pattern is that it can use up relatively small pieces of knit (and right now, i&#8217;ve got a bag full of &#8220;small&#8221; pieces of knit!).\u00c2\u00a0 i altered the instructions to just cut the legs hems from the hem of the shirt sleeve and i didn&#8217;t bother with the fly, so other than having to topstitch each of the seams, this was really a pretty easy pattern.\u00c2\u00a0 i think maybe he needs a few more pairs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>during the february celebrate the boy month, one of the guest bloggers (from &#8220;sew a straight line&#8221;) posted a great pattern and tutorial about how to make boxer briefs from t-shirts.\u00c2\u00a0 of course, baby dude is still in diapers and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=1659\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-stuff","category-crafty-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1659"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1661,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions\/1661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}