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
Lunch break, so doing some quick work here. Going off pattern. Going to go for elastic instead of ties. Happenes to pick up the elastic at an estate sale last week. #sewing #pajamas
Done! The width on the bottom of these (per pattern!!) Is absolutely, completely, ridiculous. They are supposed to be scrubs. Apparently, bell bottom scrubs. #sewing #pajamas
Ah, these have a theme song
Bell Bottom Trousers
George Paxton and his Orchestra; Dotty Reid; Jaffe
Bell Bottom Trousers : George Paxton and his Orchestra : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Performer: Dotty ReidWriter: JaffeVocal.Digitized from a shellac record, at 78 revolutions per minute. Four stylii were used to transfer this record.They are...
ACTUALLY, these have a lot of theme songs in various styles...
https://archive.org/search?tab=all&query=bell+bottom+trousers
Bell Bottom Trousers Polka 😂
BELL BOTTOM TROUSERS POLKA : BRUNON KRYGER and his International Dance Orchestra : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Performer: BRUNON KRYGER and his International Dance OrchestraWriter: Walter EigerInstrumental; King of the Polkas.Digitized at 78 revolutions per minute....
teledyn 𓂀it is a very old song theme …
https://youtu.be/cDGkG6fYOQ8?si=j3mjtFxYX-islKeu
Oscar Brand - Bell Bottom Trousers
Chris Nelder 🤘pre-code 🤣
@teledyn @chrisnelder Oh my, finally listened to the whole thing
Oscar Brand was a famous collector of such historic folksongs 😊
Our folk music traditions are not alone in suffering this present-day and relatively newly imposed sex-phobic puritan paranoiac censorship. Apparently even the curators of Antiquities somehow believe their parents never had sex, and grandparents definitely not 🤣
https://www.tumblr.com/shiningroyalty/817881162176462848/dovewithscales-darkvioletcloud?source=share
@teledyn @ai6yr 🤣 I'm actually a bit of a connoisseur of ribald music from the 20s-50s. The early blues artists had some especially spicy stuff. Here's a fun one that Zappa covered. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-n5vG2SjJY
