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sewing101Hiya! How's it going out there in sewing land? What have you been up to, what have you learned, what are you eyeing up next?
I have taken on another jersey / knit fabric pattern, this time for some joggers - the Waves and Wild Field Trip Joggers, in the adult female fit. This is for fabrics with less stretch, 20-50% widthways, and I have my eye on it for making winter trousers out of some heavy merino / polyester mix I got cheap from a local deadstock specialist, but first I made a test version in some fabric I've had sitting around for ages.
The fabric is a light-to-mid cotton / elastane knit, and it's a white base printed with a mostly solid black surface, apart from the pseudo-constellations, planets, moons and unicorns (yeah, no idea) in turquoise. I can no longer remember when I bought it, even, but it kept looking at me from the stash. Given the dark print on a light base, I wanted to use it in a garment where it wouldn't have to stretch much and have the light part show.
I sort of dislike print-at-home patterns because there's so many stages to printing, glueing, and tracing, but then also this is quite compatible with the size changes I need to make to things so it's not all bad, and I find once I've got to the point of having cut-out pattern pieces, I can just leave it a couple of days and then it's like arriving at a new pattern that I didn't have to do all that work for. So I did that with these, adding 2cm to the rise, but below the line of the angled hip pockets (so I wouldn't have to redraft any pocket lines) and added a straight 12cm all in one go just below the knee, since I reckoned that width would sit comfortably past my calves.
The waistband has you stitch most of it on as a big loop, then feed in elastic that's almost as wide as the waistband, sew that into a complete loop, and then finish sewing up the waistband; I made the elastic a little longer than suggested, and it's come out well in terms of being firm enough to stay up but not so firm it's constricting. Because the fabric is on the light and stretchy side compared to what was specified, too, they're very free-moving all round, really, without being loose enough to be annoying.
So... especially with the turquoise cuffs at the bottom, basically I've made pyjama bottoms, but ones that I can just about get away with wearing out of the house :D The biggest problem I'm having with that at the moment is that most of my wardrobe is variations on greens and browns, passing through yellow and orange and red if they're warm ones, and most of it doesn't really go with turquoise at all. But, hey, for something to wear around the house on a slow morning, they're a winner.
I have taken on another jersey / knit fabric pattern, this time for some joggers - the Waves and Wild Field Trip Joggers, in the adult female fit. This is for fabrics with less stretch, 20-50% widthways, and I have my eye on it for making winter trousers out of some heavy merino / polyester mix I got cheap from a local deadstock specialist, but first I made a test version in some fabric I've had sitting around for ages.
The fabric is a light-to-mid cotton / elastane knit, and it's a white base printed with a mostly solid black surface, apart from the pseudo-constellations, planets, moons and unicorns (yeah, no idea) in turquoise. I can no longer remember when I bought it, even, but it kept looking at me from the stash. Given the dark print on a light base, I wanted to use it in a garment where it wouldn't have to stretch much and have the light part show.
I sort of dislike print-at-home patterns because there's so many stages to printing, glueing, and tracing, but then also this is quite compatible with the size changes I need to make to things so it's not all bad, and I find once I've got to the point of having cut-out pattern pieces, I can just leave it a couple of days and then it's like arriving at a new pattern that I didn't have to do all that work for. So I did that with these, adding 2cm to the rise, but below the line of the angled hip pockets (so I wouldn't have to redraft any pocket lines) and added a straight 12cm all in one go just below the knee, since I reckoned that width would sit comfortably past my calves.
The waistband has you stitch most of it on as a big loop, then feed in elastic that's almost as wide as the waistband, sew that into a complete loop, and then finish sewing up the waistband; I made the elastic a little longer than suggested, and it's come out well in terms of being firm enough to stay up but not so firm it's constricting. Because the fabric is on the light and stretchy side compared to what was specified, too, they're very free-moving all round, really, without being loose enough to be annoying.
So... especially with the turquoise cuffs at the bottom, basically I've made pyjama bottoms, but ones that I can just about get away with wearing out of the house :D The biggest problem I'm having with that at the moment is that most of my wardrobe is variations on greens and browns, passing through yellow and orange and red if they're warm ones, and most of it doesn't really go with turquoise at all. But, hey, for something to wear around the house on a slow morning, they're a winner.
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Date: 2024-08-04 07:53 pm (UTC)I did make some patchwork though, from leftover scraps of muslin (white cotton poplin) that I dyed. This is going to be a cushion cover once I decide whether to do the same again for the other side or to do something different.
The deep pink in the middle is the result of my first attempt at getting a good low-immersion purple (as you can see, it was a complete failure in terms of the actual goal, though quite interesting in itself), and subsequent attempts radiate out from there, to the purple in the corners that’s basically what I was aiming for.