Pants and stays

[mala_14]

As promised, pictures of the latest sewing. I definitely haven't mastered the art of pants. There are a lot of weird wrinkles that were created when I made these pants a bit looser and more trouser-y than the pattern intends, just by sewing with a 1/2" seam allowance instead of 5/8". But whatever, now I have pants to wear when I'm trying to look like a professional adult, which is the important thing!

And they have a nice handsewn buttonhole! (Colour in this picture is more accurate. The other pictures needed the flash to be visible.)


Stays are more in my wheelhouse for sewing. I'm a little annoyed that the tape over the seams wrinkles into the ditch a bit, but some of that should go away when they're actually on.

I'm liking how the binding is turning out.

I decided that I'm going to use plastic (in the form of cable ties) for the horizontal boning across the bust. That'll be next after I finish up the bottom binding, since I don't have enough tape for the top binding and I'll need to make a trip to the store for that.

Comments

[elizabeth_mn]

Hey it's pants! Bifurcated leg tubes! They look great. Your buttonhole is pretty amazing.

And wow, lovely stays! That binding looks awesome.

[mala_14]

lol @ bifurcated leg tubes! Thanks! I actually like doing buttonholes. Such a weirdo.

:) I am so looking forward to the stays finally being done. I think I've been working on them since last year. Ugh.

[marianme]

The stays! Swoon. Your bindings look excellent.

Pants fitting is strange. Not sure what the fix is for those wrinkles. Almost seems like the hip could be slightly wider, but might be the rise. I wonder if modernish sewing books would have that alteration fix.

[mala_14]

Thanks!

They don't have nearly as many wrinkles when they're more fitted, so it seems like it was just the way I enlarged them for the looser fit.