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
Okay, got the pockets attached, and sewed the two legs together.
Before I forget, the two lessons:
1. Do not sew the inside leg together before pockets. Had to pull them apart!
2. Mark the pocket location with something besides chalk. it all rubbed off, no idea where they are supposed to go, just stuck them where I wanted.
Anyway, no photos yet, but top of the pants have about 6 inches too wide of a waist, lol. They are pajamas, so loose is good... but that might be too lose. ON THE OTHER HAND, I can do hand to hand martial arts in these. OR, I could film a music video. The bottoms are wide as bell bottoms, too, ha ha ha.
Hips are 6 inches too wide. Will be using these as pajamas, but I still need to take in the hips. The bottoms are as wide as 1970's bell bottoms, lol. These would be terrible, terrible as medical scrubs. #sewing #pajamas
Tamami@ai6yr As a person who used to sew half of what I wore (because I couldn't afford to buy clothes), I was very amused by this thread. I also just made a super-simple wrap skirt out of a bedsheet -- because it's 100% linen and was in a good shape -- I was like, OK i'm not the only one!
Kinene⭐🐻@c_merriweather @ai6yr I wish I had IKEA nearby, but we have a huge-old warehouse of fabric in town... It's called Mill End Fabric -- imperfect mill-end condition, and it's on the end of Mill St! How clever. They have every kind of fabric and notions imaginable, and CHEAP
Bob Tregilus@Tamami I sew, but not a lot. I've never gone to a regular fabric store so I have no reference. I always thought Mill End Fabrics was probably the best deal but for surplus fabric it still seems very pricey. Is a regular fabric store really that much more? 😱
@elaterite @c_merriweather @ai6yr Yes! Mill End definitely is the cheapest I've ever seen; you shoulda seen Jo-ann. Also the best thing of Mill End is that if you want something, they'll probably have it. It wasn't the case with Jo-ann.
Dr_Bombay@Tamami @elaterite @c_merriweather @ai6yr I’ll second the praise for Mill End Fabric. Love that place to death. It’s my go-to place for sewing projects, even when JoAnn was in existence.
@Dr_Bombay @elaterite @c_merriweather @ai6yr There's something so... nostalgic about that place too. Almost like time-traveling to last century
@Tamami @elaterite @c_merriweather @ai6yr it’s true. Receipts are hand-written, and the staff *somehow* knows where everything is in that maze of a place.
@Dr_Bombay Absolutely, love Mill End for all of those reasons. And yes, the nostalgia. I once lived where there was a Mill End like business but they sold surplus electrical / electronics / mechanical items. The stuff was stacked on shelves up to the ceiling and in boxes on the floor. I always figured the fire inspector would just drive by the place and shake their head, too scared to go in. Ha ha...
@elaterite @Dr_Bombay
You know those urban legends where John Smith vanishes while he was shopping at a store, and then reappears at the same spot 26 years later as if nothing happened, and John has no memory of those 26 years? Mill End is the kind of place that might happen.
You know those urban legends where John Smith vanishes while he was shopping at a store, and then reappears at the same spot 26 years later as if nothing happened, and John has no memory of those 26 years? Mill End is the kind of place that might happen.
@Tamami Ha ha, absolutely!
@Tamami @elaterite omg. YES. So true. One day I will be John Smith in this scenario.