Here's the lemonade: Burda 9828. Cut one piece out of each leg. This fabric is so perfect for this use because we use cloth nappies with our son and commercially purchased trousers are often too small in the butt. With 30% crosswise stretch everything fits very nicely. The green is a little bit pastelly so I manned the pattern up by adding their optional cargo pockets and adding some navy blue buttons.
Righty ho that's enough sewing for someone else let's get back to more important matters: sewing for me.
It has been said several times, and in a manner not meant to be flattering, that I am a person who always has to have the last word. So this is not the last you have heard of Burda 07-2009-102. I have already sized it up with another straight-legged pattern that works well for me and added about an inch an half to the front leg so we are good to remake this number as soon as I get some appropriate fabric.
So how many smug seamstess points do you have here? Sewing for son +recycling fabric+ overcoming wadder = lots. Very manly pants. I look forward to your next 7-2009 Burda venture.
ReplyDeletenext you'll be setting up a lemonade stall in the front yard.
ReplyDeleteAdorable pants!! I can't wait to see your Burda # 102.
ReplyDeleteSee, if you had stash, you wouldn't *need* to wait until you had the right fabric ;-) It would just be sitting there on the shelf, waiting patiently for the right moment. Just think of the increased productivity! ;-)
ReplyDeleteVery cool little-boy pants there, too, btw.
J
"Let's get back to something more important: sewing for me." ;) Your resourcefulness inspires!
ReplyDeleteWhat cute pants!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI don't know about you, but getting a wearble garment out of a wadder makes me feel that I haven't wasted ALL the time I spent on it the first place. It's a consolation prize, but salvages pride. These pants are great - at least the fabric has a worthwhile new life!
ReplyDeleteNot good of me, but I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one who refuses to let a pattern (or fabric, or.....) get the better of me.
I like these cute pants for Benjy. I didnt think those green pants you made were terrribly offensive - just way too big and that's why they looked so bad. Perhaps the colour wasnt quite right either but true to form MaryAnna they were perfectly sewn - inspirationally sewn even.
ReplyDeleteNow if you can just use the other scraps to make a beautiful garment for some poor starving child somewhere, you would have made a lemon into lemonade with ice, a wee cocktail umbrella, and a sugar-coated lemon slice, all in a crystal glass.
ReplyDeleteI guess it sounds a bit worthy but if you made dolls clothes out of the trimmings for playcentre would Benjy dress up the teddy bears in pants to match his. I was always the parent who, at clean-up time, dressed the dolls, re-fitted limbs and tucked them nicely into beds and prams for another day.
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