Pants Pants Pants

All I am sewing is pants.

And I honestly cannot make a fly and a waistband the same way twice. 

This time I put some ban rol waistband into it, as end leaders for the wide elastic that makes up most of the waistband..

https://www.wawak.com/Garment-Construction/Elastic-Waistbands/ban-roll-waistband-non-elastic/?sku=EL302

which works except for the part where I put the buttonhole through it, and it's cutting through the buttonhole threads because plastic is a weapon baby.

The lead piece to the right of the elastic is the ban-roll. Super stiff and is wearing well except for that pokey bit.

The nonelastic leader gets the button or the button hole, and stops the bunching at the point where the elastic starts.

And my tiny friend got a pair as well

Doug's fan dancing frogs get to be the pockets

And the tiny shirt so we'll match.

Dollightly, great patterns

https://www.etsy.com/listing/936674641/digital-download-doll-clothes-pattern

Yes, she will get a face up, her hair rerooted and redone, and oh yeah, she'll get back her finished feet. She will also get those tennis shoes with foot plugs and pegs for when she wants to look more like me.

Plus glasses. Cause Me

Added goodness:

really old pants

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/04/the-worlds-oldest-pants-are-a-3000-year-old-engineering-marvel/

The Usual Stack of Sewing

Not every sewing project gets done front to back at one time.

My sister's pants did

I bought this tag from Drygoods at SewExpo. I saved them for my sister for this very project (which has been waiting for months).

https://drygoodsdesignonline.com/collections/goods/products/kylie-and-the-machine-this-is-the-back-woven-label-8-ct

I blew through this project so fast, I didn't have time to take photos of cutting them out. But what's to look at? Black pants, two pattern pieces, side seam pockets, made them before, so no fitting. Laying out the fabric to get it ongrain took the most time of any of the steps. The linen/rayon was heavy enough that adding seam binding (the home made kind) to the side seams makes sense (pretty guts, stressed seam reinforcement). The center/crotch seams have been serged and may get bound in time (I can see that serger thread coming away from the seam eventually). I made a couple of yards of very stripey shirting fabric into this bias tape so Oh Yes,  I Have More.

Much much more.

Other projects get whittled away at.

Helps if they are the same thread color.

Especially the ones that have a lot of seam ripping prep.

I lightened this photo, which I wish I could have done to see what I was doing with the seam ripping. Needed new elastic, and I went in through the top seam.

Seams actually. Everything had been sewn twice or more.

One problem with athletic clothing alterations is that there's about a billion seams in there to remove the thread from. Often when you get all that thread out, there's a seam that's full of holes and 1/4" wide; not much to work with when you finally get there.  But I love these, they fit, they were thrifted and I was willing to sit and pick ten rows of stitching out while I listened to my favorite pop culture podcast about blood types, fried chicken skin, and Chuggington. 

http://www.senpaibuddies.com/

Senpai Buddies. NSFW.

They did get finished though. Wore em the next day. Worked fine.

Was coerced into finding room to put something away in the storage room.

Found lots of paper goods that are ruined by mold.

Had the entire set of lobby cards. The entire set was ruined.

After some tears, back to work on waistband expansion ideas.

 Putting in a button tab in a narrow seam in the waistband. I can reverse this if it doesn't work.

Putting a tab on the semi-side, creating a pleat over the front welt pocket. Need to move button over more. I grow during the day.

There will be more on this project as it progresses.

It's a busy time at work, so I'm not getting as much sewing in. Boss, I'm working! I'm not posting from work!

I swear!