Pants and Socks and Other Clothes

I ran up another muslin for the Style Arc Linda Pants—incorporating the changes to the rise—and they fit so much better! The wrinkles are gone. I am going to drop down a size, though. I seem to be erring on the larger side of some of these patterns. I think that once I have this pattern dialed in, these pants will become a wardrobe staple. I do get tired of jeans.

I also finished the second LDT and took in that sleeve/armscye seam on the Sadie top. Those are waiting to be hemmed.

And I went through every single one of my patterns and divided them into three piles: 1) don’t like; 2) definite keepers; 3) still want to try or re-try. Now I just need to prioritize that third category.

I taught my serger sock class last night. A few days ago, when I checked, I had four students registered. One didn’t come because of the weather, another had to cancel for a family emergency, and a third forgot about the class. (We called her, but she lives too far away to have gotten there in time.) The store owner decided to take the class, though, so the three of us spent a very pleasant couple of hours visiting and making socks.

I provided the fabric for this class. I don’t usually do that, but I wanted something specific, and I knew that if I had trouble sourcing it, the students certainly would. I ordered an athletic knit, but what I got wasn’t the same as the sample fabric I had on hand. I defaulted to some swimwear knit. That worked, but I’d still like to find more of this brushed athletic knit.

[Why do I like shopping the Walmart remnant rack? Because I can see and feel the fabric and don’t have to order blindly.]

The second fabric I wanted was some microfleece. Again, I had a sample that had come from Joanns, but every Joanns between here and Spokane was sold out. On my way to Seattle a few weeks ago, I stopped at the Joanns in Moses Lake, Washington, and they had a bolt of that microfleece on the clearance rack so I bought what was left. Joanns still has it listed on their website. I might order more in case I want to teach this class again, although the store owner is trying to find a supplier for it.

[These are first-world problems. I am aware of that.]

The socks turned out very cute. This is the swimwear fabric:

And this is the microfleece. The store owner liked her microfleece socks so much that she wore them home.

I’ve got a serger mastery class in Missoula tomorrow. I pulled out one of my Nancy Raglans (5 Out of 4 Patterns) to wear to class last night. I do like that top. If I have time, I’d like to make up another one today that I can wear tomorrow.

The store owner threw out the idea of having a serger retreat. She has frequent retreats for quilters and embroiderers and they almost always sell out. She holds them at the church camp on Flathead Lake where the husband and I were in the deck collapse in 2017. I haven’t been back there since. You can be sure, though, that I won’t be going out on that deck again.

We’ll see. That would take some planning, but it would be fun—a whole weekend of nothing but serging and someone else cooking all the meals.