Drum roll please.......the PJ pants are complete! Yay! Mind you it took about 10 goes on scraps to master button holes. It turned out I just had to tweak the setting on my machine to make them happen properly. Two button holes are needed in the waist for the bias tape to come through at the front. So no actual buttons. They're a comfy fit. Nice wide leg pants (though that's hard to see in the photo where I'm modelling them) and damn easy to sew if you already know how to do button holes. I will confess my one error: I accidentally sewed the front of the two legs together so it looked more like a skirt. This was because I was following the drawings in my Japanese pattern book and misunderstood where they were going. So 10 mins or so of unpicking commenced before I could remedy the situation. I had a good laugh about it though.
For those of you who want the detail here's the book I used. Pattern Q. It calls for PJs with fancy leg edges on 3/4 pants but I just used ordinary fabric and made them longer. My fabric (surprisingly) was found in Spotlight. It's extremely light weight cotton and good for PJs I think.
Drum roll please.......the PJ pants are complete! Yay! Mind you it took about 10 goes on scraps to master button holes. It turned out I just had to tweak the setting on my machine to make them happen properly. Two button holes are needed in the waist for the bias tape to come through at the front. So no actual buttons. They're a comfy fit. Nice wide leg pants (though that's hard to see in the photo where I'm modelling them) and damn easy to sew if you already know how to do button holes. I will confess my one error: I accidentally sewed the front of the two legs together so it looked more like a skirt. This was because I was following the drawings in my Japanese pattern book and misunderstood where they were going. So 10 mins or so of unpicking commenced before I could remedy the situation. I had a good laugh about it though.
For those of you who want the detail here's the book I used. Pattern Q. It calls for PJs with fancy leg edges on 3/4 pants but I just used ordinary fabric and made them longer. My fabric (surprisingly) was found in Spotlight. It's extremely light weight cotton and good for PJs I think.
They look great. The colour and print is fabulous and lightweight cotton sounds perfect for summer.
ReplyDeletekylie .. fab, fab, fab.
ReplyDeleteI've looked through that japanese pattern book you have, at tessuti's .. some great patterns in it. still tossing up between that and another one.
spotlight CAN surprise. gorgeous fabric for pjs.
very nice kylie.
ReplyDeletebut no amount of looking through pattern books will get me to do any stitching, it is beyond me. which is probably why i think those who can stitch perform some kind of magic.
they look awesome Kylie, and I think every single person who has used a machine has spent hours unpicking. I kbow I've put the wrong bits together - many a time. he he.
ReplyDeleteOh these are cute! Did you road test them? Have they passed the comfy test??
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Thanks everyone!
ReplyDeleteThea - yes have road tested them a little and feel comfy. Am going to make another pair :)
Nice work- well done ! That Tesutti pattern book looks good- Makes me think will have to dust off my sewing machine over the holidays. Vicki
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