Saturday, May 1, 2010

Simple pants, big mistakes

Ack, I made a mistake cutting out these cute little pants from Ottobre 3/2006.  They are pattern #23.   First of all, I could not follow the directions at all.  I read them several times through but they were just impossible for me to figure out.  Perhaps Ottobre was not so good at English translations back then?  Anyway, I figured they could not possibly be that hard to put together so I decided to wing it.  When I started to sew them together at the seam between the legs, one end was longer than the other! I had already worked hard to get beautiful ruffles and a lovely rolled hem, so I had to wing it again to fix the problem.

To solve the problem, I had to cut that seam shorter on one side but then the whole waist was too short for my child.  At this point, I was enjoying listening to the Wicked soundtrack so much, I decided to just keep going.  I added an extension to the waist to make a basically flat waist yoke.  (I think that is what it is called)  I added the elastic and Voila!  Problem solved.

Took one and a half rounds of the entire Wicked CD to sew these, btw.   Defy Gravity!





Fabric is from Robyn Pandolph's Flirt collection and I bought it from Flame Cranium on Etsy.   
Look for her link to the right side of my blog.


Next up, a twirly dress to go with these pants, same fabric collection.  
 It will be long enough to hide that terrible waist band. 

3 comments:

  1. What a great idea for the yoke! They are beautiful!

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  2. Those are awesome! I just love that fabric. I made a whole outfit with a coat lined in that, ruffle pants and a twirly skirt with it! There is a tutorial on http://www.lollychops.com/Patterns/LollyChops_SewTweet.pdf for a blue bird that I cut out of the flirt and put on a white t-shirt from Target. I added a ruffle on the shirt to hide my terrible waist band! It would look cute with your pants. Happy sewing!

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  3. Such cute pants! I'm glad you were able to make the pattern work.

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