Thursday, July 3, 2014

It's time!!

Hello everyone!!

I'm sorry for leavin' you hangin' the last couple of weeks.  I got busy at the end of June celebrating my 9 year anniversary, then my birthday.

For my birthday, my mom and nieces surprised me for a visit, and we decided to keep my nieces for the rest of the week after my mom drove back home.  So I have been bouncing around with four kids everyday instead of two (ages 4, 5, 7, and 12), and I must say that I respect all those moms and dads out there who are managing BIG families.  Just getting everyone up in the morning and to a certain location on time takes some extra planning and organizing.  Also, establishing order and organization has become a major focus for having all of these little bodies to keep up with.  It can be a bit exhausting, but I am loving every minute of it!!

However, my sewing is not loving it!  I have barely been in my sewing room.  Granted, I did have another wadder since my last post.  I planned on sewing a simple tank top, but it came out too boxy and full.  I now have two unfinished projects that I need to address...

But, moving on...

I still have a Craftsy class that I purchased and have put off for the longest time--until now.


I am venturing into the land of pants!!!!!

In fact, I have a story to go along with this.  In a conversation with my best friend, she noted, "How come you wear jeans all throughout the summer?  Don't you get hot?"  To which I replied "What?!? I don't wear jeans...well, I guess I do wear jeans all throughout summer!"  I never noticed.  But, really.  It has been a LONG time since I bought shorts.  I used to wear a lot of capri pants, but they don't fit me anymore.  So instead of buying anything new, I just wore jeans.  

I am hoping to successfully sew my first pair of jeans with this course, but beyond that, I am also hoping to have a blueprint for sewing other pairs of pants and even shorts!!  This is only the beginning!  I have already started watching some of the intro and I like Angela Wolf's teaching style.  She claims that you only need one really good jeans pattern.  ONE!  She shows you a lot of variations you can make in order to achieve the kind of jean style you want.  

So, I decided my pattern will be this one:

Mccall's 5894
The Perfect Jean
I will start here for the benefit of the class, but I would love to branch out into these patterns once I am done:




I am not saying I won't be sewing anything else this month, but I am gonna hone my focus on pants.  I am a little nervous about fitting my shape, but I hope I will get some great tips from the resources I have, as well as the Craftsy class.

I am excited!!!!!!!

I'm going to finally sew pants!!!!!!

I'll keep you posted as I progress.

Stay sew-filled!






6 comments:


  1. I am making S1696 this month and S2700 is my TNT trouser pattern.

    Can't wait to hear about your jeans sewing experience! Will definitely be following along!

    We are a "blended family" with 5 kids; 15, 14, 13, 13 and 8. It DEFINITELY can get hectic! :)

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  2. I haven't sewn pants for myself either. I can't wait to see how your jeans come out.

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  3. I'm excited to see how this turns out! I've had the Jean-ius course forever but I've never watched it. It's on my agenda for fall! Making jeans would feel like taking things to another level.

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  4. your post is reminding me of a post idea I've had for a long time now...maybe i'll write it soon!

    Mimi G just opened more seats for her conference in a few weeks and one of the topics is BODICE SLOPER!!!! If it was in NYC I would totally go this year!

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  5. I haven't made jeans myself as of yet. I can't wait to see what you come up with..

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  6. Happy birthday! My birthday is also at the end of June...please let us know if this Craftsy class is helpful. Pants and me are not getting along.

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Let me know what you think!