Pants for The Girl
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elizabeth_mnWe were going through a serious dresses-only phase for several months. Now we are back to pants. I made her a few pairs from stash fabrics this week.
The pattern is just a really basic elastic-waist pant. It's a little baggy for her but I am not going to get too finicky about fitting. As usual for her, and following the measurement chart, I have cut one size smaller than her age, with a little added length, and just drew in the waist to fit by ignoring the 'elastic guide' and cutting the elastic to fit her.
She always wants pockets. Sigh. I object to pockets on kid clothes for two reasons:
1.) Pockets are annoying to make. On a simple pant like this, the addition of pockets more than doubles the sewing time.
2.) When kids have pockets, they put things in them. Usually things that shouldn't go in pockets (crayons, chocolate, worms) and will wreck the washing machine. Then you have to check all the pockets on laundry day. Ugh.
But The Girl wanted pockets, so I compromised, and put pockets on a couple of the pairs.
The fabric of this blue print pair is from Ikea and I had originally planned to cover a bench with it. Here are the rest of the pants. They are all heavier-wieght cottons.
The dark purple pair is made of leftovers from this dress, the yellow pair with the weird onion-y print was from work and I forgot what I bought it for, maybe a bag? The dark indigo blue floral print is a remnant I got at a yard sale or something about 100 years ago. Seriously, this is OLD stash. I have had it for as long as I can remember. I thought it had a vaguely 18th century block print look to it, but there wasn't enough to do much. I thought maybe a small jacket or stays? But now it's pants. Probably for the best.
The thing that is toughest about stashbusting for me is letting go of the dreams. I buy fabric with plans and good intentions, but sometimes either my ideas don't work, or I change my mind, or I get distracted, and when another idea comes up I have to let go of the earlier one. Most of these pieces were so small - less than a yard - that it made sense to make them into kid pants. What else could I use these pieces for? But the letting go is still hard.
Related: It is only one more week until kindergarten starts! Aaahhhhhh!!!! I am totally freaking out!
The pattern is just a really basic elastic-waist pant. It's a little baggy for her but I am not going to get too finicky about fitting. As usual for her, and following the measurement chart, I have cut one size smaller than her age, with a little added length, and just drew in the waist to fit by ignoring the 'elastic guide' and cutting the elastic to fit her.
She always wants pockets. Sigh. I object to pockets on kid clothes for two reasons:
1.) Pockets are annoying to make. On a simple pant like this, the addition of pockets more than doubles the sewing time.
2.) When kids have pockets, they put things in them. Usually things that shouldn't go in pockets (crayons, chocolate, worms) and will wreck the washing machine. Then you have to check all the pockets on laundry day. Ugh.
But The Girl wanted pockets, so I compromised, and put pockets on a couple of the pairs.
The fabric of this blue print pair is from Ikea and I had originally planned to cover a bench with it. Here are the rest of the pants. They are all heavier-wieght cottons.
The dark purple pair is made of leftovers from this dress, the yellow pair with the weird onion-y print was from work and I forgot what I bought it for, maybe a bag? The dark indigo blue floral print is a remnant I got at a yard sale or something about 100 years ago. Seriously, this is OLD stash. I have had it for as long as I can remember. I thought it had a vaguely 18th century block print look to it, but there wasn't enough to do much. I thought maybe a small jacket or stays? But now it's pants. Probably for the best.
The thing that is toughest about stashbusting for me is letting go of the dreams. I buy fabric with plans and good intentions, but sometimes either my ideas don't work, or I change my mind, or I get distracted, and when another idea comes up I have to let go of the earlier one. Most of these pieces were so small - less than a yard - that it made sense to make them into kid pants. What else could I use these pieces for? But the letting go is still hard.
Related: It is only one more week until kindergarten starts! Aaahhhhhh!!!! I am totally freaking out!
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Date: 2015-09-03 06:31 pm (UTC)i need to get back to sewing for inara. this darn contract job is getting in my way!
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Date: 2015-09-04 03:24 am (UTC)