• Sewing round up March-19 Ediition

    Well, I’ve been busy!  I’ve sewn a few things over the last week or sew, but most of these item’s I’ve sewn before and one was a TNT so it really didn’t take long to make this weeks garments.  I typically do not have time to sew this many things (did I neglect something else?), probably!  The boss politely reminded me that we have to finish our taxes.  I’m a reformed tax accountant that hates doing her own taxes!  I know I have to pay, so it can wait till whenever (not really whenever, because I don’t do penalties) but you know what I mean! Anyway, there are a few…

  • Wide legged pants with a surprise McCalls 7547

     I love a little surprise, and I have one with these pants.  One of my goals for 2018 is to make pants without elastic at the waist.  Now, there’s nothing wrong with pull on pants, but I want to learn how to fit trousers and jeans too.  Here’s one of the pants fitting resources I used from Closet Case Patterns. I made these at the end of January and I was only sewing from my stash when I made these so I had to improvise.  I don’t have much bottom weight fabric in my stash and no denim, I did have piece of stretch denim so I used this.  I’m…