A friend who sews commissioned me to trace a pattern off a pair of her husband's favorite twill pants. I was expecting something pretty straightforward, but the back crotch had an interesting gusset detail (no wonder he likes them as they are an unusual style and probably fit differently that regular styles!).
The front leg was easy to trace. So were all the pockets and drawstring waistband. Even the crotch gusset was pretty easy because it was small enough to lay flat on paper.
But that back leg with all the curves and angles - THAT was a completely different story! I walked away at least three times and came back to it later. Nothing I was tracing out was matching up to the measurements of the actual pants.
Eventually, I remembered I had some Glad Press 'n Seal wrap. So I stuck some to the back leg and traced the seams with a sharpie. I did it twice (since I had to piece the first plastic trace right in the area that was giving me so much grief) and stacked the plastic traces on top of one of my paper traces.
I finally got it close enough that I was comfortable passing it off for her to use. She said the mockup she made was pretty close and he was happy. Whew!
Swipe for some pics and let me know if you have any specific questions in the comments.
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I spent the day priming things for paint and then I remembered to shoot a quick video. #SewingStudioBuild
I started cutting all the edges while Janet was away yesterday morning. When she got back after lunch, she pulled out a roller and started filling in. I'll put a pic below in the comments. #SewingStudioBuild
We broke for lunch and then came back with a portal ac unit plugged in to an extention cord from the house. Can't wait until they finished hooking up all the electrical and we have the mini split cooling the room for us - it was stupid humid today! #SewingStudioBuild
I finally finished the quilt for my daughter. I couldn’t take pictures of the entire thing (her room is a disaster zone), but here’s some of the patchwork and the embroidered square I made because I ended up being one short. I did learn that I’m going to need to find a better way to lay out any future quilts that are twin sized or larger, because I had to keep shifting it around the slightly too small area of our basement carpet and the backing ended up getting doubled up in multiple places. By the time I discovered it, I couldn’t bring myself to unpick that much of the quilting, so it’ll have to stay. But I think it’s going to be awhile before I do any more quilts. Between this and the patchwork jeans (which I did end up having to shorten some), I’m feeling burned out on big projects for now. I did cut out a basic knit tee, so hopefully that’ll be enough of a palate cleanser to get me over the lack of motivation to sew that I was feeling by the end of this.
