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Hi absolutely love the pants you made they’re so stunning! I was wondering, since you mentioned that the pattern maker was “incurious” about seams and things and that a beginner sewist might miss out on some stuff, if there is a pattern or resource you might recommend for a beginner pants maker? :) enjoy your lovely pants!
What comes to mind is the blog The Crooked Hem which is written by an extremely precise woman who seems to have sewn about 80% of all existing indie pants patterns. See this post as an example.
I also liked sewing the Jones Trousers, which do mention flat felled seams! They're a zero-waste pattern. I felt it was a pattern that thoughtfully explained its choices and encouraged testing along the way (really minor example, but: "If using heavier weight fabric, grade and trim the seam allowance" vs "Grade waistband seam as needed" in Cedar instructions).
Unforch I don't particularly like wearing mine, as for one pair I picked too heavy of a fabric and for the other I did a fit modification that didn't work that well, but maybe someday I'll sew a different pair of pants that is both a fun pattern to execute and a fun wardrobe addition.
And of course there is no substitute for just noodling around!!!
If you don't want to get into a zipper fly, my first pants were the Palisade Pants in like 2021 or 2022. I made them out of quilting cotton and was like ah dang these look a little stupid on me but I wear them quite a lot. Good pattern for easing into pants. And I've made the Spring Shorts (minus paperbag waist) like three times now.
I do like the Cedar Pant's info for securing the elastic in the waistband, none of the elastic waistbands mentioned above bother to do it and, in my experience, you really gotta do it
Hi absolutely love the pants you made they’re so stunning! I was wondering, since you mentioned that the pattern maker was “incurious” about seams and things and that a beginner sewist might miss out on some stuff, if there is a pattern or resource you might recommend for a beginner pants maker? :) enjoy your lovely pants!
What comes to mind is the blog The Crooked Hem which is written by an extremely precise woman who seems to have sewn about 80% of all existing indie pants patterns. See this post as an example.
I also liked sewing the Jones Trousers, which do mention flat felled seams! They're a zero-waste pattern. I felt it was a pattern that thoughtfully explained its choices and encouraged testing along the way (really minor example, but: "If using heavier weight fabric, grade and trim the seam allowance" vs "Grade waistband seam as needed" in Cedar instructions).
Unforch I don't particularly like wearing mine, as for one pair I picked too heavy of a fabric and for the other I did a fit modification that didn't work that well, but maybe someday I'll sew a different pair of pants that is both a fun pattern to execute and a fun wardrobe addition.
And of course there is no substitute for just noodling around!!!
i like sewing because you get to think about something really really hard and then you get an object. i imagine authors feel this way over a longer timespan
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reblogged a post with a correction about spray sunscreens (they work way less well than you think) but then decided the very small number of people who might see my reblog wasn't worth the likelihood that people would read it as me discouraging sunscreen use and come to yell at me so i deleted it.
but FYI, here in my own post:
spray sunscreens don't work very well
neither do (most) sunscreen sticks
in general, michelle wong (a.k.a. lab muffin beauty science), a chemistry PhD who is very passionate about sunscreen and spends a lot of time debunking sunscreen misinformation, is a useful resource for learning about sunscreen! both the above links go to videos she made. here is another: many many sunscreen questions answered
i like sewing because you get to think about something really really hard and then you get an object. i imagine authors feel this way over a longer timespan
i am trying to make some pants. many people #online are losing their gourd over how easy this pattern is and i'm contrarianfully a little peeved about the assumption of serger ownership, 3/8th topstitching that fails to enclose 1/2" turned over raw edges, general expected minor failure cases of a pattern you buy on etsy
BUT i got it all cut out from leftovers without buying any new fabric so that's my win
Overall review: it makes sense this patternmaker has been operating on Etsy for 2.5 years, this seems like a 2.5 years of operation quality pattern to me. It's very cleanly presented and produces a end result that I'm jazzed about! But it also seems incurious about seam finishes/attention to detail, and I feel that beginner sewists attempting this pattern might not know what they're missing out on.
What I like
Easy breezy fit with no fit mods (except turning the cuffs up 1.5" vs 1") - big fan of gusset and knee dart
Mega comfortable fabric choices using stash only (undyed slightly stretchy twill from Fabrics R Us, Rifle Paper Co Camont - Poppy Fields - Natural Unbleached Canvas off someone on etsy I don't have customer loyalty to)
Pleasant embedded links to Youtube tutorial
Really big fan of the carabiner loop
Cute!!!
What I changed
Hopelessly reliant on crayola washable markers + gluesticks for holding turned-over edges in place. Also got into banging on bulky seams with a hammer. PRO TIP: use oxyclean to guarantee washable markers wash out.
Oh my god the pattern doesn't recommend a denim needle for the many layers of midweight fabric? Denim needle was a huge QOL improvement.
Did not buy topstictching thread. Used regular thread.
To squeeze this out of limited fabric: shortened knee patches ~1", cut pocket facings off grain, bound edge of weird back pocket with selvedge instead of cutting out this shape of piece
Also extended the trapezoid with floral fabric to create a hidden lining for the pocket that layers on top of it (another fabric-saving measure)
Added a patch pocket for my phone on front right, inspired by the Jones Trousers
Skipped hammer loop (despite using a hammer while making this pattern)
Flat felled inside leg seams, butt curve. The instructions simply say "finish" for all seams btw :(. The gusset to inside leg seam join proved impossible to flat fell so I just zigzagged it right to hell.
Added a baste together and try on step while installing gusset before all the flat felling
Bias bound outside leg seams, tacked flat at points along leg. Kind of a Hong Kong seam attempt.
Reinforced outside leg seams at very thick joining points... otherwise pressing open as recommended means you will see daylight through your pants
Used a shorter zipper (the actual length of the fly) (already on hand). This nerfed me on the mandatory-pull-zipper-head-out-of-the-way-so-your-machine-foot-fits step
Hand basted down the waistband before machine sewing. God I hate waistbands.
Made a wretched buttonhole with my zigzag stitch. Could be worse! It's holding the button!
What I would do next time
Check front and back pocket dimensions against each other before sewing to pants; mark with washable marker to ensure topstitching lines up
Trim pocket foldover so it's fully encased in topstitching (it's fraying now in an annoying way)
Extra line of topstitching to completely secure down pocket facing
Either use a longer zipper or a different fly construction method that allows better checking on functionality as I go. I am not jazzed about trimming down a metal zipper (pattern doesn't mention what tools to use for that!) so probably the latter
Shorten legs/add contrast cuffs
Maybe add little darts in the back
Try to figure out a way to do the waistband that I hate less. Sew inside seam first?
Fix weird little gapping at top of zipper/grade in at waist a little?
The knee panel is bait for quilters and I might fall for it
I also don't think this is gender neutral unless you grade the bejesus out of it, as the pattern assumes a 10" waist-hip difference.
Girl this is not a tip. This is just something you have to do for the pattern to work.
I’m sorry for adding directly to a post but I went to a wedding once where the groom’s name was Loren and the bride’s name was Lauren and at the end the officiant was all “introducing Loren [surname] and Lauren [surname], husband and wife” and the entire assembled lost it
also sorry for adding on but at my high school there was a Dominic and a Dominique who were dating and everyone just called them “Dom and Dommer” which is honestly the funniest shit ever
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theres a webcomic where the artist buys adoptable sparkledog ocs from young deviantart artists and has them all as characters and it's so so fuckin good
its called Preeny Has To Repeat 6th Grade and you can read it here!
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all those posts that are like "why am i researching currency debasement in the 1860s for a fanfiction no one is going to care" are full of shit, i just DNFd a fic for being obviously incorrect about the history of plumbing
just got a double whammy of the most annoying comments i get on this post back to back in my notes (1. this is going to give authors anxiety!!! 2. but you CAN get tenure by 35!!!), so everyone say bye bye post for another several months
post unlocked because i just dnf'd the project hail mary book due to andy weir's 'rocky thinks in base six' inconsistencies.
if rocky thinks and estimates in base six round numbers and then converts to base ten for ryan gosling's sake (established early!! basically one of the first things ryan gosling works out!), then he would not suggest that they jump from 80 to 86 when rounding up for safety, because neither of those are base six round numbers. he would suggest jumping to a safety allowance of 84 (220 in base six) or 90 (230 in base six).
The Heist (gouache)
I didn't take a lot of reference photos in CPH, but this little tree was worth painting. I named this painting after the Jaylib track. This will be my postcard print for July. Join my postcard club on Patreon if you'd like this mini print in the mail - link in my pinned post!!
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