Get your doll ready for the 2021 Summer Olympics with this patriotic pattern hack of the Love From Lola Basic Leotard Pattern. Add to your Team Spirit Leotard with the 3 Doll-Sized Olympic Medals featured in this free craft tutorial.
Be sure to leave a comment and tell us:
What's your favorite Olympic Event to watch?
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1. Start by placing the Leotard front piece on the center of a piece of paper. Trace around the pattern piece.
2. Fold the Leotard front pattern piece in half. Use this to mark where the center front is along the neckline.
3. Measure and mark 1⁄2 inch in from each side seam.
4. Draw a line from the center neckline down to the markings you just made. You should have a triangle shape on the leotard front now.
5. Cut out the triangle-shaped portion of the leotard front.
6. Following the instructions on page 12 of the Basic Leotard pattern cut out the leotard back and the sleeves. You will also need 2 pieces cut to roughly 8 x 10 inches for the leotard front. One of the main fabric and one of the overlay fabric.
7. Place your main fabric down with your overlay fabric on top.
8. Center the overlay pattern piece on top. Pin through all three layers to secure the pattern piece in place.
9. Stitch the overlay in place following directly alongside the edge of the V shape. Stitch only along the edge of the V shape, do not stitch along the leg and crotch seam.
10. Remove the pattern piece. Taking care cut away the excess fabric leaving 1/8 inch along the stitched line. You will be left with something that looks like this.
11. Place the pattern piece marked ‘Basic Leotard Front’ on top and cut out the pattern. Use the stitching line as a guide and place the top of the V at the neckline center.
12. To finish treat this completed piece as the leotard front and follow the steps found on page 7 of the Basic Leotard Pattern to finish the leotard.
13. Finished leotard!
This technique can be used to create a variety of different designs on your leotard, or simply omit the sleeves and make a swimsuit instead!
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I like watching gymnastics, especially Simone Biles. These girls are amazing!
I love gymnastics. I was not able to do any of the tumbles and was scared to jump over the horse so in high school I sat them out.. But I loved watching others. It’s incredible what those girls can do.
My favorite is gymnastics..
I didn’t get to see Simone Biles at the opening event, but I look forward to seeing a rerun! Maybe by extension that makes me most excited to watch gymnastics. I hope all the athletes and everyone supporting them inside the Olympic bubble will be safe from severe cases of covid.
Please don’t tell my dear d-i-l she’s been competing for many years in Archery, but it’s kind of like watching grass grow . . . shhh you didn’t hear that from me!)
I love watching the gymnastics I think the most! Go Simone Biles!!!
Thanks for the great Hack ;)
We like to watch the gymnastics, swimming, and diving in summer. Looking forward to seeing the new events. In the winter games we like almost all of those events.
I enjoy watching the swimming and diving competition!
Favourite Olympic sport to watch is swimming
I made some for a child’s birthday party but using cardboard. Next time I will use this salt clay recipe. Thanks
Summer is definitely gymnastics and winter is figure skating.
Summer? synchronized swimming or high dive. Winter? oh, skating, hands down!!!
My summer Olympic events favourites are swimming, diving, and boating!!! Ta, Deb.
I love watching all the swim/diving/water events!
I like to watch gymnastics Especially the freestyle portion
Love to watch the ice skating competitions!
My favourite sport to watch when I was younger was gymnastics because they made it look so amazing . I could barely do a front roll.
My favorite to watch are gymnastics, swimming and high dive.
My favorite event in the Summer Olympics is definitely gymnastics! Ice skating is my favorite in the winter!
I love to watch gymnastics, swimming, and diving during the Summer Olympics. During the Winter Olympics, ice skating and skiing are my favorite sports.
I love watching swimming in summer, figure skating in winter!
My favorite summer event is swimming with rowing coming in second. Ice skating is my favorite winter sport.
I like to watch figure skating and Gymnastics but like to watch them all.
Gymnastics has always been my favorite! They so strong and yet graceful.
Gymnastics is the most watchable sport in the Olympics. A close second is swimming.
Modern day sports are exciting, my favourite is diving.
I’ve always loved watching the ice skating events. It’s such a beautiful combination of athleticism and creativity. Only for the young!
Track and field
Figure skating or equestrian jumping or artistic swimming.
Figure skating!
My favorite summer Olympics is gymnastics. And the floor dancing. I love to see how all those different kinds of moves.
Hesnestly I am no much of a sports person and gymnatics makes me nervous. My granddaughter did it and dance starting at age 3. I like watching Hockey.
Gymnastics and ice dancing are two of my favorites. Thanks for the contest and pattern hacks.
My favorites are figure skating in the winter games and gymnastics in the summer games!!
My daughter and my grand daughter are both gymnasts. My daughter owns a gym and coaches now. Needless to dsy it sd to be gymnastics
any of the floor exercises.
I llike the swimming events.
I llike the swimming events.
My favorite winter Olympic sport would be Figure Skating and my favorite summer Olympic sport would be the Equestrian events. Love the little outfit and the medals. Thanks for the opportunity to win it…
I love to watch gymnastics, diving and swimming in the summer games. Thanks for a chance to win!
My favorite sport is skiing. It is so graceful and fn to watch.
I love gymnastics and volleyball
Summer Olympics I like to watch all forms of gymnastics, Winter Olympics I like to watch all forms of ice skating.
Summer Olympics I like to watch all forms of gymnastics, Winter Olympics I like to watch all forms of ice skating.
I love the Floor Exercise
In the Winter figure skating is my favorite. In the summer gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics and equestrian events are my favorite.
Gymnastics.
Figure skating for the win!
Summer gymnastics
Winter ice skating
Definitely women’s gymnastics. I always wanted to be a gymnast when I was a little girl.
My favorite is gymnastics.
Swimming, especially women’s
I love track events in the Summer Olympics and ice skating events in the Winter Olympics
My favorite is swimming
Winter Olympics – Figure Skating, Summer Olympics – Gymnastics
Gymnastics all the way.
Gymnastics, both men and women’s. Dedication and practice, much like sewing….lol
I like the olympics
Ice skating—love it!
Olympics, We love all of the Sports! Field, track, gymnastics, swim, ice skating, tennis a specially when one of our guys or girls compete!
I love to watch gymnastics, men’s and women’s. The athletes are so strong yet very graceful.
Skating, been watching every year!
My favorites are the winter sports, snowboarding and luge and bobsledding And speed skating.
i love gymnastics, swimmimg and ice skating
Figure skating, ice hockey, gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, curling, all of the extreme sports…lol I just can’t pick one! I’m Olympics crazy :)
Summer Olympics – Gymnastics for sure! But the last Olympics I had a neice-in-law that competed in the Heptathlon, so of course I watched whatever parts of that that were televised.
I love the Floor exercise and the power of the jumps!
Love the swimming events
Rhythmic gymnastics is so beautiful to watch!
I love the figure skating it always amazing at their new jumps and spinning together.
I like figure skating and gymnastics.
I enjoy watching gymnastics and ice skating.
I enjoy watching the gymnastic floor event!
I love Olympic gymnastics and ice skating
I love gymnastics but also track events.
For summer, it is gymnastics – for winter, figure skating and ice dancing.
The 4 × 4 relays in the track and field events.
ice skating
We all love to watch the Olympics. Our favorites are the skating and the bob sledding. We also like the gymnastics. Thank you for all that you do.
I have two favorite events, gymnastics and ice skating.
My fave event for the Summer Games is beach volleyball. Thanks so much for your generous giveaway.
My favorite event is gymnastics. It is amazing to see what those people can do.
My favorite sport to watch is the bob sled.
I like to watch the swimming ,diving, figure skating, gymnastics are my favorite.
I like to watch diving in summer and figure skating in winter.
Swimming is always my favorite summer sport through track & field is a close second. What is the diameter of the juice lid/medal??
Love the gymnastics! Love this pattern design, too!
Wow! Cool giveaway! In the summer, my favorite sport is gymnastics and in the winter it’s figure skating. Both are so graceful!
My favorite are gymnastics and figure skating
winter skiing!
I enjoy most of the swimming and diving competitions.
Figure Skating
My favorite SUMMER event is Artistic Swimming, WINTER event is Figure Skating
My favorite is the figure skating.
Gymnastics and swimming. Swimming because it is objective (timed).. Gymnastics because it is daring
Ice skating!!!!
My favorite summer Olympics event is gymnastics. It’s so cool to watch!
My fav is the gymnastics competitions.
I like gymnastics and skating
I love watching swimming in Summer and skating in Winter
debbie swanson
August 03, 2021
i love the gymnastics, they all look so graceful