I can't believe the day has come where I've finished a pair of pants! My mom and I have been in the Make It Happen class at Drygoods Design for almost 3 years now and I spent one entire year working on these damn things. The pants first started from pattern E in the book I Love Pants by Yuko Takada, but let me tell you, the book did not make me love pants. After what felt like a million muslins we finally had the pattern fitting how I wanted it to. Then it was on to figuring out how to do a fly and welt pockets. The fly took a long time to figure out, I ended up mashing a bunch of different fly instructions together. The welt pockets are fake, and were probably the most magical thing I've sewed to date; right when it feels so wrong you flip them around and wahlah you have these cool, sophisticated pockets going on!
So I figured all of that out, did one more fit adjustment and was ready to make a real pair. These are the only pair I've made so far, they're a wearable muslin out of a nice light cotton in dark blue from my favorite, District Fabrics. I finished sewing, was all excited to put them, and on and then to my disappointment the waist was drastically large...What did I do wrong?? Thankfully in my rendition of the pattern I made the last pleat using the completed waist band, so all I had to do was rip out a few stitches, take out about 2'' and they fit like a glove! Finally! I'm really excited to kick on MMMay with these sweet things, they are the perfect work pant which is exactly what I was going for.
As cute as they are apologies for how difficult it is to capture the details in these photos.
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