AI6YR BenI suppose I should document making my pajama pants, rather than just making them. 🤔
(pattern I purchased for $2 at the thrift store is BRAND NEW. Will not cut it, will trace it) #sewing
Let's put this up for a poll, lol.
Document it in detail
Just the overall steps
This is boring, I'm changing the channel
Why are you asking us?!?!
Poll ended at .
First, the question of sizing. Hip size standing is 42, but hip size sitting down is more like 45. Since these are pajama pants, going larger. Large. Not in this package, but I will just scale it out. #sewing #scrubpants
Not cutting the pattern, after hearing from everyone here telling me to try not to do that. #sewing #pajamas
Using white tracing paper was a mistake. The sheet still has many white areas. Had to get a headlamp to see things. And trace over the pattern again with chalk. Terrible phone in the way photo. #sewing #pajamas
Completed cutting these the other night. Not too complex. Fabric wrinkles from the Japanese style dying definitely made it a challenge, those wrinkles do not iron out lol. (Tied tightly and nearly boiled, they are pretty set). Will make cool looking pants though with the texture. #sewing #pajamas
LESSON: instead of directly trading the pattern onto the fabric, I should have traced the pattern onto another piece of paper, and THEN cut out the pattern on that paper and used it to mark/cut the fabric. The very large piece of tissue paper pattern was extremely difficult to manage. #sewing
Okay, too tired to sew this, but made one step forward. Mystery instructions on buttonhole, which I skipped. Will ponder where this actually is later. Or, I need to pull out the pattern again. #sewing #pajamapants
(there's only 8 pieces to this thing, plus a tie, so it should be fast... but, I am easily distracted, and I have a huge "task switching" penalty I have to overcome for most things, lol). #sewing
Next is the buttonhole, which went all wrong. Later I found I had ironed on the interfacing on the wrong side. And my buttonholes was not happy about the stretch in this fabric. #sewing #pajamas
Okay, pocket geometry was a big mystery. Figured it all out, but the pockets are inadequate and tiny, and suck lol. If I redo this or do them again, I make the pockets significantly deeper and wider. #sewing #pajamas
Cannot decode patch pocket instructions. Facing and inside outside thing makes no sense. 🤔 Already sewed one (probably wrong) but multiple leasons and issues here too. #sewing
W6KME@ai6yr This is something I face as an instructor all the time...instructions written by someone so familiar with something that they no longer understand that not everyone is as familiar. These instructions probably looked great to the author.
I'm always forcing myself to ask--what would the thing I am saying sound like to me before I learned anything about this thing? It's not easy.
@ai6yr You're another person who teaches based upon their knowledge of a subject, rather than their credentials as a teacher, so I suspect you know exactly what I mean. I'm constantly forcing myself to step outside my own head and into my students' minds, because I don't have those formal skills.
And, I strongly suspect, neither do many professional teachers. At least very few of the ones I have known.
Honestly, I think it gives me an advantage over many "professors". How's that for ego? 😂
@W6KME Oh, absolutely.... understanding (or attempting to understand) how a beginner might tackle a subject is extremely important. I had so many professors who were BRILLIANT... to the point they couldn't explain stuff to students, who had none of that brilliance. ("it's OBVIOUS, why can't you see it?!?!" US: "Uh... you're the Nobel prize winner...") 😂