The Easter weekend was very hot, so I thought it would be a good idea to sew a little pair of floaty shorts for the summer. (SInce then it’s been too cold to wear them. Typical.) They’re McCalls 6328, view D, and this is a link to a line drawing because you can’t really see [...]
Category Archive for 'trousers'
Back in April 2009 I made a pair of trousers using Vogue pattern 8367. (Now out of print.) In October 2009 I went looking for a jacket pattern, and came across one which included a pair of trousers that I liked. The pattern was Vogue 8604, which looked remarkably similar to Vogue 8367. Today I [...]
A friend of mine collects clowns. He found this one in a charity shop, sadly trouserless. A fat quarter of sparkly gold jersey later, and the clown is much better dressed!
I started making these trousers back in March, when I started my new job. Then I decided I didn’t like them, and they went on The Pile. Last weekend I was going to a party, and I wanted to wear my Jeffery~West shoes, so I thought it was about time I finished off the trousers [...]
I spent yesterday afternoon developing the prototypes I made on Saturday – in fabrics that I’ll actually wear. The top is a pink tartan cotton and viscose blend shirting. I added sleeves, although they didn’t turn out quite how I meant them to. I was intending to make floaty butterfly sleeves, but these have come [...]
This week’s been a pretty hot one, as far as weather goes in the UK. I’m sure most people are thrilled to bits (in fact I can hear them all outside, laughing and enjoying their barbecues in their gardens), but unfortunately for me, I’m really not very good at hot. I get sunstroke very easily, [...]
Last week I was looking at these lovely yoga pants from Gossypium, and lamenting that I didn’t have £35 to spend on a pair of trousers just at the moment. Today I was finally able to reach into my pattern stash at the back of the Shed (which still has a great deal of kitchen [...]
I like Henry Holland, and he had some trousers in Debenhams, and they were pink tartan, so obviously it was compulsory for me to buy them. (Yes, I know they look ridiculous. I have every intention of wearing them anyway.) But! Because these are tapered trousers, the legs were much too tight in my usual [...]
This weekend I’ve been sewing the waistcoat to go with the Dorset buttons I made last Sunday. The pattern is McCalls 8285, and the fabric is a sage green cotton velvet. It’s almost finished – I just need to make the buttonholes, and sew a little silver buckle onto one of the straps at the [...]
This is what’s been keeping me busy for the past few days – Laughing Moon #106, California Pants. These pieces are just the linings and facings for the pockets, waistband, gussets and fly. As you can probably tell, I’ve still got a long way to go with these! My plan to try and make two [...]