For the love of pockets

Emily loves pockets.  Sometimes, during church, she will start hunting for pockets on her dress, asking "pocket?" repeatedly.  Telling her that there are no pockets does little good, since she is 2.

So, given the opportunity, I put pockets on her clothes.

Today I was replacing elastic on a pair of 18 month pants.  (I have been trying to get through my mending pile).  The pants were cotton on the outside, with a rayon lining.  And they were dry clean only.  Not really what I would choose, but I got them for free.  The elastic was so stretched out that Emily had only wore the pants a couple times, since I had to roll over the waistband to get them to stay up.

After I took out the old elastic, Emily wanted to try them on.  I quickly cut out the lining, and slipped them on her.  They fit really well, despite being a couple sizes to small.  Maybe they are from back when loose clothes were in.  The only problem was that they hit her ankles at flood level.  So, I thought, why not make them into shorts for this summer.

I cut off the ends of the pants.  And since Emily loves pockets, I used the cut off legs to make pockets.

Standard patch pockets for the back pockets:

And modified patch pockets for the front:

You can see a little of the pink bias tape I used to finish the edge of the pocket.  I used bias tape for the front and back pockets.  Usually I just fold over the top edge of patch pockets a couple times, but I didn't have quite enough fabric to do that, since I was using left overs from cutting the legs shorter.

She looks pretty cute in her new capris:

(We bribed her with smarties and her Hello Kitty movie to get her to sit for the picture.  She did NOT want to change out of her nightgown).