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Meriam Trousers (ooh aah)
Oct. 24th, 2022 07:47 amI DID THE THING. Pattern purchased, printed, taped together Saturday morning (after a whopping 10 hours of sleep -- who am i?!) and first mock up sewn before I left the house to pick up my workwife.
I don't know WHAT I was thinking. I made an unmodified size 22 and it was hilariously oversized on me. I stood there holding it up and looking at enough space around my waist to see down to my hips for a moment, thinking -- nothing really, it was... interesting lol. Then I had to get ready to go, so I left it for a few hours. Once I got back I took it in down to a mostly even size 18 (ish), decided that was good enough and traced off a new copy of the pattern so I could make a few modifications to the back. I thought I'd make a wearable mock-up then, but I couldn't decide on fabric, and since it was nearly 9pm by then, decided it could wait another day.
Sunday I decided to make another mock up with the changes I'd made. And that was an excellent idea, because there's still more I need to do!
Current pattern:
Unmodified 18
Shortened 1" in the leg from the thigh-area shortening line
1/2" extra taken in each dart
Sides from waist to crotch level straightened (the pattern is rounded, which gives far too much fabric pooch)
Back also taken in 1/4" at side and CB
In the mock up, the leg could possibly be shortened another 1/2" or so, but I don't hate how long it is (covers my ankle!!) so I might just take that up in hemming. And the back needs to be pulled in SO MUCH MORE at the waist. I think I took out another 2" at the CB.
I did not, however, notice much twisting of the leg as shown in many of the sample photos. The fabric I used has a very even print, which really highlighted the back too (and I noticed it when I looked at mock-up photos of the shorts I made this summer, it has the same narrow V at CB). I even measured across the legs to put a straight line through the center, as shown in the early drafting manuals I was reading this year, and the grainline marking was true. So not sure what was going on there!
My plan today is to print off the upper back at size 14 (because if I take just my back waist measurement, it would put me at that size) and blend it with the current pattern, and see how that goes.
Also do the view B waistband. I did not consider that when printing off view A, that one uses a flex waistband with an elastic and I had no idea how it was supposed to fit lol.
I don't know WHAT I was thinking. I made an unmodified size 22 and it was hilariously oversized on me. I stood there holding it up and looking at enough space around my waist to see down to my hips for a moment, thinking -- nothing really, it was... interesting lol. Then I had to get ready to go, so I left it for a few hours. Once I got back I took it in down to a mostly even size 18 (ish), decided that was good enough and traced off a new copy of the pattern so I could make a few modifications to the back. I thought I'd make a wearable mock-up then, but I couldn't decide on fabric, and since it was nearly 9pm by then, decided it could wait another day.
Sunday I decided to make another mock up with the changes I'd made. And that was an excellent idea, because there's still more I need to do!
Current pattern:
Unmodified 18
Shortened 1" in the leg from the thigh-area shortening line
1/2" extra taken in each dart
Sides from waist to crotch level straightened (the pattern is rounded, which gives far too much fabric pooch)
Back also taken in 1/4" at side and CB
In the mock up, the leg could possibly be shortened another 1/2" or so, but I don't hate how long it is (covers my ankle!!) so I might just take that up in hemming. And the back needs to be pulled in SO MUCH MORE at the waist. I think I took out another 2" at the CB.
I did not, however, notice much twisting of the leg as shown in many of the sample photos. The fabric I used has a very even print, which really highlighted the back too (and I noticed it when I looked at mock-up photos of the shorts I made this summer, it has the same narrow V at CB). I even measured across the legs to put a straight line through the center, as shown in the early drafting manuals I was reading this year, and the grainline marking was true. So not sure what was going on there!
My plan today is to print off the upper back at size 14 (because if I take just my back waist measurement, it would put me at that size) and blend it with the current pattern, and see how that goes.
Also do the view B waistband. I did not consider that when printing off view A, that one uses a flex waistband with an elastic and I had no idea how it was supposed to fit lol.
