So I am a week behind on my original time line.
But to be fair I had to wait for books and at the last minute my kid decided no I don’t want to wear my old costume I want to be a pumpkin!
So week 3 was filled with runs to the fabric store and cutting out multiple things.
I have decided that I need a real cutting table. My lower back was not amused with the kitchen table and the floor has catsharks who love to “help”.
The Drawers
Or an adventure in pants suck.
I started by reading my instructions, several times before diving into a paper pattern. I found the bara tapes to be quick and easy to lay everything out. I still feel like my waist measurement is a bit big but better than too small.
Once I got the paper made up I cut a fabric and realized I need 60 wide fabric as the 45 was a close call.
From there I stitched everything up according to the directions. Pulled them on and….
Failure.
The crotch was WAY to small. Causing the rest of it to be a huge mess as nothing was staying on. I had them measured to sit at my belly button….these barely reached my hips.
So I did the only thing I could and pulled the whole thing apart and put it aside to sew the pumpkin costume.
Once I was less miffed I attempted to go over what could have gone wrong and after reading the instructions again, having my husband help measure me against the tapes and some gumps I settled that the gusset was messing with the inseam line.
So I decided that I would just sew them up sans gussets. My line of reason was I could add them back in if I ripped out the crotch.
However once together and on I realized; They worked.
I ran about the house for a bit stretching and twisting to see if they would rip.
The held up the only issue being the leg cuffs. I was very very baffled.
However, I know better than to question working pants.
From there everything got sidelined to finish the pumpkin costume. I also had to find new fabric for the drawers as I realized that my original fabric had been put up someplace “safe”. I did lay hand on some heavyweight white fabric in looking in my bag of fabric I had in the sewing room. Tossing it aside until the weekend after Halloween I returned to the pumpkin.
Upon getting back to the project I realized the fabric wasn’t cotton as I had thought! Rather it was some linen I had purchased back when Joann’s had a massive discount. A burn test makes me think it might be 100% too. Now I had a dilemma, did I sew by hand or work it on the machine and hand finish it or just serge the whole thing?!
At this point I deiced to compromise. I would be sewing the main seams by machine and then finishing by hand. I also wanted to do some embroidery on the cuffs.
Now in between all this, I figured out how to make lucet cord! So my drawstring if all goes well should be a lucet cord made from hand-dyed wool.
Stay tuned next time I should have a finished set of drawers and finally be on to something I can wear out in public.
