Just keep sewing sewing sewing
Feb. 8th, 2025 09:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
callistotoni I finished the pants I've been working on. I started with the Folkwear Basic Pants pattern, but by the time I was done my pattern didn't look much like the pattern. The pattern was So Off for my body, and the way they designed the pockets to have fold-down edges would not work for people like me who don't want to tuck their shirts into their pants.
I wound up using some scrap medium weight linen. I had intended to use some nice heavy chambray, but after working on the pattern for a while I downgraded. Now they will be great to lounge around in in the summer (I wouldn't go out in public wearing them).
Next up on my 2025 sewing list is a commercial pattern with a flowy angel-sleeve top and more tailored pants (zipper front). I have some peachy cotton lawn print (bunnies and unicorns!) that I got from Stonemountain & Daughter ~10 years ago for the top. (Actually, I have a lot of this fabric; did I buy all they had?). And I'll make the pants of the chambray. The top will come together quickly, but I'm predicting many muslins of the pants. :-/ .
A small rant: Way back when, I used to hear the phrase that denegrated someone's sewn clothes as having the "loving hands at home"-look. The opposite--the goal--was to sew such that your sewn clothes looked like they were professionally made (i.e., store bought). This phrase used to make sense to me, but now I wonder if it was rooted in the lack of respect given to any art/craft/hobby primarily pursued by women. There's more to say about this, but I've got to get to get going.
I wound up using some scrap medium weight linen. I had intended to use some nice heavy chambray, but after working on the pattern for a while I downgraded. Now they will be great to lounge around in in the summer (I wouldn't go out in public wearing them).
Next up on my 2025 sewing list is a commercial pattern with a flowy angel-sleeve top and more tailored pants (zipper front). I have some peachy cotton lawn print (bunnies and unicorns!) that I got from Stonemountain & Daughter ~10 years ago for the top. (Actually, I have a lot of this fabric; did I buy all they had?). And I'll make the pants of the chambray. The top will come together quickly, but I'm predicting many muslins of the pants. :-/ .
A small rant: Way back when, I used to hear the phrase that denegrated someone's sewn clothes as having the "loving hands at home"-look. The opposite--the goal--was to sew such that your sewn clothes looked like they were professionally made (i.e., store bought). This phrase used to make sense to me, but now I wonder if it was rooted in the lack of respect given to any art/craft/hobby primarily pursued by women. There's more to say about this, but I've got to get to get going.
