Friday, July 11, 2008
Los Pantalones de Muertos
Oh sheesh! I thought I could pretend to be a sewer (as I unknowingly plurked yesterday). Seamstress would be the correct word, but based on my sewing skills, I really am more of a sewer than a seamstress. This 1hr pattern took me, oh, 6 hours. A good chunk of that was spent ripping out seams! I was moving along so smoothly and only had hems to finish, when I help them up to find that somehow, my patners were completely ass backwards! I have no idea what I did wrong. It was a horrible debacle! After ripping out all seems but the crotch, I managed to turn myself rightside up again. The pants are huge on the account of my not preshrinking and the suggestion of my mom to go up a size to allow shrinkage. I'm pretty sure I could fit an elephant calf in here. Anyway, here they are in all their glory. I'm going to try again in the next size under.
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The pants are gorgeous! I wish I didn't hate sewing so much (did way too much of it years ago). I'd love to make some of those lounging pants for my daughters and DIL!
Although it's a good idea to wash fabric first, the amount of shrinkage these days is truly minimal. If the thread and fabric have been sanforized, shrinkage is pretty much no worrying about.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sanforized
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