Hits and misses

Sometimes I think I've made an OK garment and then I see a pic of it :/

So here I'm thinking "OK a bit baggy but I can live with it".....

And then hubby takes a pic and I'm like "Dear God nooo- what was I thinking??" :(

 

WHAT happened to my legs? I know they are not super long but I am reasonably tall (5ft 9") and these pants make me look like I have weirdly shortened legs. Obviously this pattern HAS to have some revision work done to it!

These slacks are made from a pattern from Make Your Own Clothes (by Patternmaker). Considering you put your own personal measurements in - and mine were professionally taken- I would expect the pattern that the software spat out to be a little more form fitting. But who knows what the ease is, or whether the measurements I put in were the ones they wanted...

I serged a good 1 cm off each side seam and the crotch seam, which have made the resulting pants look much more aesthetically pleasing ;)

(sorry no pic of the "new improved version as yet") 

More tinkering with this pattern software coming up...

Happy Sewing!

Kate x

 

Patternmaker half-circle skirt finished!

Yay !!!
It took a while but finally I got this one finished off, embarrassing considering how ridiculously easy the pattern is.

At first I wasn't sure about the finished product but now I've worn it have decided its not too bad :) - in fact I like the swishy feel it has! I can say that it is highly likely I will be making this one again in the near future, especially after taping all those A4 pattern pieces together :)

You can read more in my pattern review here.

Slowly, slowly...

It seems I have succumbed to the recent malaise that seems to be doing the rounds on several blogsites; that is not much is happening. Whether its due to the current state of the global economy, or global health I am not sure, or maybe I have just made too many changes to my life recently and it has taken awhile to get them all sorted out ?
Anyway what I DO know is that over the past few months I HAVE :
-Completely changed my eating habits and diet (hopefully for the better!)
-Lost a few kilos (yay!)
-Exercised more
..And read a few good books :)
I also managed to get food poisoning and(more recently) thrown my back out :( but its all better now :)
Plus hubby and I are going on a holiday to Alice Springs/ Uluru starting next weekend so I can't complain :)
On the sewing side I finally managed to stick all those pieces of a4 paper together for the half-circle skirt I am making out of "Make your own clothes" (by Patternmaker and Marie Clayton).
This is the main skirt piece after I stuck 26 pages together and cut them out. That's not including all the extra pages surrounding it that were just filler. Having stuck all the pages together I realised the shape is symmetrical.... wouldn't it have been soo much easier if they had printed half the pattern piece with a line that you place a fold? Not to mention it would actually fit on my dining table a whole lot better- that is one HUGE piece of paper to have to wrangle around!
So I folded the pattern piece in half (just to check that my eyes were accurate and it really was symmetrical around a central line) and then cut down that line...
Voila! smaller pattern piece that is way easier to maneuver and store, plus it now fits perfectly on the table :P
What I want to know is why the pattern piece does not come like this to begin with? Surely if the Patternmaker program works it out all mathematically it could be changed quite easily?
Nevertheless I have the fabric cut out now and can't wait to see what the skirt will be like made up - if its as well fitting as my shorts (from the same book) I'll be very happy!