This week, I'm going to meet someone that I've worked with for a while, but have never met in person. When he let me know he was going to be in town (and by "in town" I mean within an hour's drive), he said that I'm on the list of people he wants to meet...and also on the list is the Pope.
Read MoreOne more post before I call it a weekend...
I made a short jacket (the short version of the
long jacket I made out of brocade that didn't fit
) out of scuba knit and a simple pair of elastic waist pants out of some sort of black suiting material, I think it's a wool blend.
Work clothes.
I do work from home, but on occasion I need to make appearances around people and need to be dressed appropriately. Most of the time, I am in no way dressed appropriately - as in "oh my webcam must not be working"
because I rolled out of bed and my hair looks like Axl Rose in the Welcome to the Jungle video
. In case you're wondering, I'm wearing striped navy and white pajama pants and a long sleeved Pantera concert t-shirt. Conclusion? Not work appropriate.
Aaand that's why I'm not modeling these creations. I need to go to bed and I'm not down for hair and makeup right now. So, instead you get Penelope, the dress form I got for Christmas.
The jacket is view C from Simplicity pattern 4789 and the pants are view A but
highly
modified. I made them this afternoon per the pattern, put them on (I knew I should have done this out of muslin first) and wowzers. Talk about droopy drawers. Way wide legs and too much crotch going on in these things. My seam ripper and I got to work (of course I had serged everything except for the outside leg seams) and I pulled them completely apart and started over.
What I did to adjust them (and this is probably the super hacky way because it's Sunday and I couldn't be bothered with math and fractions) is take the original pattern piece, and laid a pair of pants that fit me better on the top of the pattern and took a pencil and traced around them. I then took my cut pieces of fabric and re-marked them with the new leg and crotch lines to slim them down.
End result is pants that fit much better. Not so wide in the legs, but a little more tapered at the ankle than I would typically wear, but I guess skinny pants are a thing so I'm just going with it. They still need to be hemmed but I'll take care of that another day.
For the jacket, I was going to leave it open but decided that it needed some sort of closure, so I attached this fun little claspy guy.
I was going to make an effort to put the pants on Penelope so you could see the complete outfit but let's be honest, it's creeping up on 10:30pm on a Sunday and ain't nobody got time for that.
I did not buy a single present this year. For those on my list, it was a Holy Hardcore Handmade Holiday.
Read MoreI found this awesome Camo fabric at Vogue Fabrics in Evanston, IL during my small business Saturday FART (Fabric Acquisition Road Trip). I've been waiting to use it, searching for the right pattern, and I thought I found it. Don't get me wrong, it's a great pattern, I just used the wrong size.
Read MoreYes, I made myself a onesie and slippers.
Not particularly proud of this one. Not because I'm ashamed of having made myself a onesie...hell, I'd rock it to the grocery store all day long. I'm just not happy with how it turned out.
Let's review...
This one is McCall's pattern M7518. They call it a jumpsuit, but let's call it what it is: a onesie. The pattern called for a hood and pockets, but I have no need for a hood nor pockets whilst I sleep, so I ditched the hood and just did a standard collar and omitted the pockets.
I got the shell of it together and put it on, and the crotch was basically at my knees. What I should have done is actually measured and stuff...
ahem
...and shortened the pattern before cutting. However, I did not do that, so since this item will be seen by no one in real life, I just took a couple inches at the waist and shortened it, which wouldn't have been terrible had I been using a plain solid fabric. However, it was plaid fleece and I was unable to match it up.
Le sigh
.
Janky issue #2 is the center front, the plaid is not matched up across the zipper, which bothers me. Again, not going to be seen in this and it's for me, so whatever.
I am going to finish it with thumbhole cuffs (of course) and hem the bottoms. Then, I'm going to put it on, turn on the fireplace, snuggle up on the couch and watch me some TV.
I also made some slipper boots (Kwik Sew pattern K3926). I had a remnant of some Star Wars fabric, so I used that and faux suede for the bottom contrast, and grippy fabric on the bottom. Safety first! I had another remnant of what was labeled as fleece that I used for the lining, but I should have known by the feel of it that there was no way it was fleece...it was minky, which is super soft, but when you cut minky, it gets all over the place, so while it was snowing outside, it looked like it snowed in my sewing room as well.
Lesson of the Pajama Party project is to work on pattern matching. The slipper boots are jacked up too, since I wasn't paying attention to matching up patterns when I cut.
To top it off, somehow I managed to cut my fingers not once, not twice, but thrice with my rotary cutter while cutting out pattern pieces. I accidentally cut a couple inches off my hair with it too (note to self: put hair up before cutting). Well, there's still time to sew through a finger tonight...
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