Capstone Project: Making Shorts

Today I went to Goodwill to get some materials for my project. I wanted the material that resembles a sweater and I thought it would be better to get material here instead of Joann's fabric. Goodwill has nice sweaters for an inexpensive amount. It only took me 30 minutes for me to find two nice, comfy sweaters. One was a beige color and the other was a navy color. I got over-sized sweater since they have more material on them.
When I got home, I worked on my shorts using the sweaters as the material and the patterns as guidelines. I folded the beige sweater so the inseams would be in the center and I put the patterns in the bottom middle where the ends of the pattern or facing outwards from the sweater. I cut the sweater so it traced over the patterns. After the fabric was cut out, I filled a new bobbin with black thread and set up my sewing machine. I sewed the sides, with right sides facing inward and I folded it so the inseams that was already in the sweater were at the sides of the soon-to-be shorts. The next part was the hardest for me because the bottom of the shorts has to match in length but the lengths were slightly off. I stitched the bottom so there would be two holes for your legs. I messed up a bit and there was a little hole on the   bottom of the shorts. I tried to hand stitch the bottom and the hole become drastically smaller but if you see closely you would still see it. I tried on the incomplete short and I realized that I made a big mistake: I forgot seam allowance when I cut the pattern! I had to add an extra centimeter around the pattern to make up for the seams, but I forgot to. The shorts became shorter than I wanted but it still fits. I decided, since I made a mistake and there was a hole in the middle-bottom of the shorts, that I won't finish this pair of shorts. I will use the other sweater that I bought to try to make a pair of shorts again. These shorts were only a practice session, I will perfect it next time!
P.S. I found out how to make shorts by researching online.

Hours done today: 2 hours
Total hours completed: 18 hours