Wrap dressing continued: the infinity dress

I never made one of these, they are still all over pinterest. I only searched this out because I noticed that  it's the dress for all the bridesmaids in this wedding video

https://youtu.be/KgZ4ZTTfKO8

and who says musical comedy has no place in the every day world?

 If you search on infinity dress on Pinterest, there are a billionity ways to tie this sucker. And until the fabric dies, it's all good.

simplicity 1154

Five yards for the full length,  3 1/4 for knee length

Ten more than the other? Ten better?

It has a youtube video too.

This is the chiffon/challis wrap skirt/dress. For your lightweight wovens (so they don't feel left out).

So you want to make your own? Best instructions so far are from

http://knucklesalad.com/convertible-infinity-dress-how-it-almost-defeated-me-and-what-you-need-to-make-one/

(that whole security http vs https prevents me putting a real link there. Poo) Copy/paste/browser. You know how to do this.

I watermarked all over it so you'll go to her page and get the real deets. She nailed it just for you. 

And in honor of my deep love for the wrap and walk away line

Essentially pants with the same wrappy bodice

I'm working on things that are not working out, and will 'wrap' them up in a week or so.

 Sadly, one of them was going to be my cosplay for Emerald City Comic Con on Friday.

The other is/was a hat to wear to SewExpo on Thursday.

Now I have to figure something else out.

To feel like I had accomplished something, I spent the whole afternoon changing the green thread to red on the logo.

https://www.zazzle.com/erniek_power_tool_coffee_mug-168697362251233940
I had the cat on my lap. I was trapped.

One piece pants patterns and me

Rodale Publishing is, of course, the home of Organic Gardening (Mike McG forever!). Sandra Betzina is, of course, Sandra Betzina. So this pattern set always caught my eye, but I kept passing on it. I had no idea it has a one piece pants pattern in it.

 I learned about this courtesy of Ms Ranch House on ReFashion Coop.

Ranch House Recuts Her Pants and Shows You How. 

I had no idea it came with a book. Clearly I need to get out more often.

There are lots of one piece patterns out there. An afternoon of pinning resulted in this

https://www.pinterest.com/erniekdesigns/one-piece-pants/

There are a LOT of these things.

I don't have either the pattern or the book*,

but I do have this:

They are bigger. The one on the right has outgrown the jams on the left one. They weren't even wearing the size pattern I use this photo for; that ship has sailed long ago.

One Piece Pants Pattern

I don't want to give away the store here, but these are pants you could draft for yourself in under an hour.  

The original pattern keeps growing to make jams for the men. That's where the Star Wars Xmas flannel went.

I do make pants for myself. The one piece Jeans pattern (more like trousers than jeans)

Curved waistband makes all the difference with jeans.

and the Hammer Pants obsession.

So I make a lot of pants for myself.

And once I get a pattern, I will use it over and over again. 

I do like pockets, I don't like them all the way to the sides (the shoulder injury really moved me to move the pocket openings).

But on seam pockets, where the seam is on the front of the thigh.... now that's speaking to me.

This is roughly the new pants pattern I'm sewing now. 

But sweetie, where the hell is the crotch?

It's in the center, so the pocket/side seams are shifted to the front. Keeping it one piece, even if it kills me.

(I have another post for next week on drafting this pattern)

The red vertical line indicates where the side is. I've wrapped that seam edge around more to the front (about five inches from the center seam - eight inches of actual pant). Darts in the back to take in some slack across my enormous bum, just like Loes Hinse basic pull on pants. The rest is gathered by the elastic, and since these have enormous pockets, I'm using 1.25" width nonroll elastic. Extra heavy duty support.

Laid down, without elastic. I used the cool selvage edge for the attached waistband and leveled out the hems to take advantage of it. Tucked and pleated into that waistband, which will gather more when the elastic goes in. Also milked these out of less than two yards of fabric.

We're just not going to have nicer photos today.  Sorry.

The angle on the lower front makes these bag waaaaaaaaaaay out in a really interesting way. I could hide entire families just under my knees. It feels like I should be able to cut these down and use that excess fabric on something else. And the back seam is ripping out, so even though the crotch is super deep, it needs to be scooped out an inch or so. Or two.

Yes, that very Ren and Stimpy print. I wore them everywhere, I posted them on Instagram and my son liked them and my husband liked them IRL. And no, no one made a peep. No one looks at what I wear anymore I guess.

How can you not see this? I cannot unsee this.

* I did just buy the pattern on Ebay, and it came June 1st. I am not going to open it until I'm done beating this topic to a pulp. Cause that is cheating. And I have to screw this up for myself before I will ask for help.

Handy Shopper is Free!

Here in Seattle, we are going to lose our plastic bags. Now I am good for the ones for the grocery store, but as I was leaving the drug store, I realized that I would have moments when I needed a bag for that stuff. The little stuff. Prescriptions. So an hour later, I have the Handy Shopper.

You gather it to the corner with the elastic.

You keep going.

You pull the elastic over.

I am so smart! Must go have a tasty treat! Which I could put in the bag.... No. In me.