All the Hot Pink

I may only get one or two days of sewing per week—although I am trying to change that—but I am making the most of them. Yesterday, I put together another Laundry Day Tee, the black waffle knit Harper Cardigan, and a pair of StyleArc Linda Pants in the purple bengaline. I also hemmed a Burda 6329 made from some double-brushed poly I pulled from the stash.

The Laundry Day Tee:

This is already a favorite and I haven’t even worn it yet. The fabric is that nice beefy rayon spandex from the Walmart remnant rack. I am teaching a decorative coverstitch class today and I’ll probably wear this top.

Or maybe I’ll wear this one—another Burda 6329:

Decisions, decisions.

The purple bengaline pants fit very well. I can still see a few very minor wrinkles on the back, but I am not sure how to adjust for those and truly, close enough is as good as it gets. I don’t want to become one of those sewists who obsesses over every single wrinkle. I will take the pattern and these pants to my private sewing class in two weeks and get input from the instructor. Otherwise, they fit and feel and look good. The one change I might make on the next pair is to try power mesh instead of elastic in the waistband. I’ve seen some examples where the power mesh and waistband were cut together and treated as one piece.

I am rather proud of those pants and the fact that I was able to identify the issue—a rise that was too short—and figure out how to adjust it properly for my body. I have miles to go yet, but what I learned with those pants will be helpful in future classes. The only issue is that I have nothing to wear with them. Purple is not a color I gravitate to.

[It occurred to me that the reason I love high-waisted pants is because my body is so long from waist to crotch long that high-waisted pants fit me like mid-rise pants fit normal people.]

I still have the top-down, center-out pants fitting kit from J Stern Designs and may tackle that in December.

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Oh look, a squirrel—Itch to Stitch just released the Andes Jacket Pattern:

I need a thousand more hours in my week. This is on the to-do pile, as well. I still have to order Cordura for generator covers from Seattle Fabric so I might as well order some softshell for an Andes Jacket while I’m at it. They have it in hot pink. 😉

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Having done my first successful Zoom interview for the podcast, I e-mailed half a dozen other people I’d like to interview and the responses have been overwhelmingly positive. Most of the interviews won’t happen until after the holidays, but they are on the schedule.

I’ve started working on a few new embroidery projects in the evening, too. I’ll post pics of those later this week.