Make a flannel 1/2 slip to keep you warm. Cut a piece of new flannel, baby blankets, or section of a flannel sheet. For the length: measure from waist to knee. Add 2 inches for hem, and 3 inches for top casing for elastic. The width of fabric needs to equal your hip measurement plus 4 inches.
Sew side seams, hem and upper casing. Cut 1 inch elastic to fit waist and use large safety pin to feed it through the casing. Sew ends. These slips plus turtlenecks have enabled me to wear "summer" clothes all year.
By ruthellen from Columbia, MD
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Good Idea. Thanks for sharing.
Great idea! Think I'll make a couple of these!
Right on! You can repurpose sheets for many clothing and craft projects, also tablecloths, shower curtains, etc. Sheets can make great curtains, pillow covers, costumes, stage props or playclothes. Look for good quality in the material if you plan to wear the item.
Imagine how warm a flannel long slip would be under our long skirts. Great idea!
Ruthellen, you have just taken me back 60 years plus, as a baby I had bouts of pneumonia, which reared it's head all through childhood. My grandmother made me wear red flannel singlets and thick bloomers, how I hated them!!
could you use fleece? wondering if flannel would cling to skirt? or gather lint?
could you use fleece? wondering if flannel would cling to skirt? or gather lint?
I find that when I'm walking, the fabric underskirt gathers and flaps around in front of me. I think wearing a nylon slip first then putting on the flannel and then the outer skirt would probably help this situation.
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