Jalie exercise skirt 2796 with Fehr Trade Steeplechase leggings

I made these exercise clothes just before the weather got too hot here to wear an exercise skirt with inbuilt leggings and promptly forgot to write about them, but yesterday, when I got out my clothing for colder weather, these went into my wardrobe too, so I thought I'd give them a mention.

The outside skirt is the terrific Jalie running skirt, made to the length of the largest size, because I have middle aged legs.
However, although I've made several of these skirts (mostly for my daughters), I've never been content with the inner shorts.
Previous skirt here  .
I don't seem to have mentioned the three or four other skirts, but they exist!

 The included Jalie  shorts pattern is only one piece, with no outer seam, and quite frankly, for my build, they are incredibly uncomfortable for running. My daughters are not big fans of this particular exercise shorts pattern either. Having no outer leg seam gives a lot of work to both the centre body seam and the inner leg seam, neither of which are in places that cope well with severe pulling during vigorous activity.

Melissa's Steeplechase leggings to the rescue.
These leggings have no outer leg seam either, but they do have other seams, into which one can insert some backside room, and best of all, no inner leg seam, so no chafing!

I've raved  written about these leggings previously, at some length, so I won't repeat myself.
Just so you know, I don't use any other leggings patterns for running anymore.
I attached the leggings, with an appropriate amount of the upper edge removed, to the skirt using the instructions in the Jalie pattern. The waistband is from the Jalie pattern.

 

The main fabric is strechtex titanium, a technical knit, (sourced directly from the manufacturer, Stretchtex) and the contrast fabric is a knit supplex.
 The top is another of Melissa's patterns, the VNA top, previously mentioned here

Jalie 2796 exercise skirt

I have been wanting to make myself a Jalie exercise skirt since Melissa of Fehr trade wrote about this pattern.
Instead, I made two for my daughter, for a 24 hour "human powered vehicle" challenge. This was a team event, and she didn't want to be wandering around in bike shorts in between her shifts on the vehicle, so the Jalie skirt was perfect.

The pattern has a pair of exercise shorts, attached at the waistband to a little A line skirt with an incredibly clever overlapping side section that not only allows free hip movements for sport, but forms a nicely sized pocket.

It has a pair of exercise shorts, attached at the waistband to a little A line skirt with an incredibly clever overlapping side section that not only allows free hip movements for sport, but forms a nicely sized pocket.

The  outer fabric I used was "titanium", a robust wicking poly blend from Stretchtex in 2 colours. The inner shorts are made from their compression sports fabric.

I sewed the inside shorts with the seams to the outside, to minimise chafing.
My only other change to the pattern was to use a coverstitch for hemming.

This is a terrific skirt, and I still want to make one for myself!

Stashbusting statistics, about 2m of a 2012 purchase of mixed technical fabrics (2pr shorts + 2 skirts adds up pretty quickly..