Howdy-ho, y’all. The week is winding down with an average morning here in the grass. The skies were bright when I opened the back door for Pippin, but the clouds have since moved in for the time being. I’ve been awake since ~4am. You know when you wake up and it just feels wrong to be awake? That’s what happened. Somehow, even though I had the sleep mask on, something about the quality of light seemed off. I woke up and just knew it was way too early to be awake. I tried to go back to sleep a couple of times, without luck.
Shocker: I made more pants yesterday.
I made the red pair from a curtain panel. I used my regular pattern, which is like wearing a sack with foot-holes. The panel was about 5″ wider than usual, because if I don’t need to cut shit, I’m not going to cut shit. This added 10″ to the already enormous waistline, but made everything extra billowy in the “sack”. This was my second foray into a proper waistband, which meant I needed to pleat shit. I put pleats in the waist, then added some smaller ones in the “crotchal region” to tighten everything up and keep it from hanging too low and tripping me.
The blue pair is a new pattern. WE HAVE LEGS, Y’ALL. I wasn’t too worried about fucking it up and wasting fabric. The print isn’t really my jam, and the fabric is the cheapest stuff you can find in the kids’ bedding line at Walmart. I was super stoked with how quickly they worked up. They turned out really nicely for my first try making something with actual legs. Now I have two options, which is awesome.
Today, I need to do things. I have a shop to fill.
