Yeah, I'm sorry that I haven't gotten any pictural evidence that I have actually be doing stuff on this end, but I will!
To follow up, the button placement is fine, but I am needing to make take the waist in a little. I can probably finish this stuff up today, but because I'm so close to being done with them, may just procrastinate and work on something else, like I'm known to do. *smirk* Also, I fiddled with the pants I had from the salwar kameez set, and think they should work for pants...I believe these have been worn by another person, who must have been very oddly shaped because the waist is pretty big in these pants while the legs are SO skinny! I did want to add a litte extra pattern from the top into the pantaloons because I love the patterns and colors so much, so to add some extra puffiness to the pantaloon, I'm adding about a 4 inch strip on each side of the leg. I also wanted to line these, so I'll need to locate the fabric I bought for that. Besides the extras I'm doing, these were fairly easy to make, even though I'm reusing/recycling previously cut fabric. Crystal told me there was a really easy way to make simple "drawers", and I found this website with instructions and illustrations! (I'm a very visual person) http://www.geocities.com/sheikhani_troupe/costume1.html I used Brad's breeches pattern to trace the crotch, and what do you know!? I have pants! So...looks like I at least have a plan and can get these done soon. Tonight I have a VSA meeting, but I am getting off of work at 3, so I hope I can get some stuff done before I have to leave for the meeting.
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That wasn't as bad as I built it up to be! I have made hundreds of buttonhole stitches before by hand for my corset lacing, but just never to be used in conjuction with an actual button!
So, that main pant buttonhole is made...now I can move on to lesser holes. Heh. I do have a bit more work to do as, when I asked Brad to show me where he would button these, he took the fly and stretched it across his tummy, like the pants were too big! #$%^&*@!!! They fit the other day, after I changed the size of the waistband AFTER they were too small before...What the heck! Well, rather than have a wonky fly (haha!) I'm deciding to resize them the right way. Well, almost done.
I'm almost finished with the wearable pair of mock-up breeches! I need to add buttons and buttonholes, and something tells me that even though I'm almost done, that will take a while. This is a handsewing project I can do at work, while working at other stuff at home in the evening. The buttonhole foot on my brand new sewing machine seems to be faulty...so I'm going to have to make them by hand. *sigh* I'm nervous. I haven't made a buttonhole for a real garment ever before. I'll just need to make sure that I research it well. Beyond that, I've decided (with the help of a smart & trusty friend) that since my Venetian is almost wearable, I should be spending a little time getting it ready for opening weekend. I also need to fix the chemise because a seam in the shoulder came apart last year. I'm hoping adding this extra pair of shoulder straps will only take one evening to figure out. After that I need to figure out what to do next, and I'm not sure what it should be: Mock-up Brad's doublet OR Make the linen breeches I feel that since this pair of breeches is so fresh in my mind, it may be a good idea to get the linen breeches made, but I am excited & curious to get his doublet started. Also...making the linen breeches will probably only take a couple of days since I've already worked out the questions I had with the pattern. I guess that means I should move ahead with starting the linen breeches, but while I'm cutting the pieces for them, I will also cut the 1st mock-up pieces for the doublet. We had a productive weekend.
Saturday Brad and I had plans in seperate directions. He had to drive south for an oil change and I took Mindy to the vet to get her stitches removed. That took less than 10 minutes, then I had plans to see Crystal and do some fabric shopping! Well, I got the mock-up waistband on the 2nd draft of the pants, and it looks good.
Though I really didn't want to and procrastinated until very late, I got the real mock-up (in the mock-up fashion fabric that I'm hoping become a wearable pair of pants) waistband and the interfacing for it cut! Yay me! I am going to aim to get the waistband on tonight, but since my mudroom (which is where most of my sewing storage is) is driving me nutzo, I might take some quality time to try to organize it--Again! The problem in that room is that my main storage is a massive built in cabinett from the 70's, but it's not very...what's the word...it's not a very effecient use of space. The top cabinets are like 2 feet high, but are 6.5 feet off the floor, not easily accessibly by a 5.3 foot woman....and the biggest cabinet it 5 feet tall..so I have stuff stacked on stuff, stacked on stuff, and stuff stuffed into the sides of it...disasterous! We'll see if I can manage to come up with a solution, the whole situation in the room is temporary anyway. It is beautiful outside today. I love the weather we've been having lately. Mid 70s, breezy! Does it get any better?
Some Minnesotans have been complaining about not reaching 90 degrees because they like it HOT! Not my style...so the only reason I've been complaining is because I'm locked up at work. On my walk around the park on my lunch break I think about alot of things. Usually though I dream of whatever dress I'm currently dreaming about and picture myself doing a photoshoot under the beautiful canopy of vines around the playground. It's very picturesque, minus the playground equipment and trash cans...but I just ignore those things. I was hypothetically revamping my Venetian...if I lined the skirt, do I have stash fabric that would work? What color would I make the underskirt? Which led to, hmmm, I'd have to wear a corset and it would be hot...which led to, what if I wore a corset under the work dress...if I wore a corset under the work dress I'd need the faux camicia for the front opening--DOH! I need that for the Venetian! So...A list, I love lists If I revamp the Ventian, I will need these things:
Ha! I'm going to write about my thoughts on the Margo Anderson Gentleman's Breeches Pattern in case anyone wants to know, asks me later, and for my own reference.
That fly instruction is confusing...I guess it would help if I was familiar with flys and pant making, but these patterns should be intermediate sew-er friendly...I think I'll reference some sewing materials online or at home when I get a chance to figure out what I did, if I did anything, wrong. For more of my struggles with making a concealed button fly, read on... So, I spend the day avoiding a killer headache (I won!) and playing around with the customization features on weebly. So far, I like it. There is one thing currently bugging me, but I'll run it by Brad and see if he can't figure it out.
I'm going to need a spiffy new banner and some graphics around here to spruce things up a bit don't ya think? I hope this new place works out and work doesn't block access here. That would be disappointing. Last night my goal was to sew up a pair of mock-up breeches. I didn't do it. I made dinner, and food for potluck and then was hit with a headache and after laying on the sofa trying to get rid of said headache, got lazy. It was good cuddletime anyway. So I guess my goal for tonight should be to get these made up! I'm trying to find a suitable way to blog from work...I'd like to be able to freely edit my blog from work, as well as post.
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