Yeah For Pants!

 

 My Jacole skinny pants are done! 

Yeah for pants that fit!!

There will be modifications.

I will never try to topstitch a pocket with 5 layers of fabric with the coverstitch machine.

It was a mess.

But I fixed it and used my sewing machine.

Modification #1...I do not like this patch pocket.

I feel like it is down to my knees but it isn't.

I prefer a nice little pocket inside.

I can make that happen.

This is how I hem...pants and shirts.

I serge the seams, then press up the hem, press on fusible tape.

I serge around the bottom for a clean finish.

I clip the seam being careful not to clip too far.

Then twist the seam. 

Remove the paper, press and topstitch.

Other modifications:

#2-shorten the hem by 3"

#3-lengthen the back rise on the pattern paper

#4-shorten the front rise

(I have a weird shaped body!!)
Oh and I used  drawcord elastic in the waist.

I'm unsure of using just the band. 

I need the security of elastic-old school I guess.

I wore them all afternoon and evening.

They were so comfy!

I have a nice selection of pants fabric from Knitpop.

I'll be cutting another pair today.

Yeah for pants!

Design Wall Monday

This is not a quilt related post,

it's a sewing pants post.

I'm making myself pants! 

It's been a struggle all my sewing years to make pants that fit me.

I get frustrated and give up way too soon.

(Quilting is so much easier!)

I was determined to make it work this time.

So after research and talking to my daughter who sews lots more clothes that I do,

I decided to try the Jacole Skinny Pants pattern.

I started out Sunday morning taping the pattern together in my outdoor office.

Then I got a phone call asking me if the kiddos could hang out with us while 

their parents went on a date.

Uhhh, yeah!

So this girl and her 3 brothers spent the day with us.

So much activity and talking and laughing and planning.

I loved almost every minute of it,

I do not like having to bandage up war wounds.

After they went home and I recouped,

I decided to cut out my pattern with some Ponte I bought from Knitpop.

Then I basted them together and tried them on.

I was almost in tears with how happy I was with the fit.

I only need a little adjusting for my big hinnie,

other than that, perfection.

I'm a happy sewer.

Today I get to play with the serger and coverstitch machine and

will finish them and cut out another pair or 7.

Yes, I have that many knits earmarked for pants.

Long pants, and caprices.

When will I go back to quilting?
I'm not sure.

I'm too pumped about new pants right now.

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