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My current ball and chain...
Only had a couple hours yesterday, in between playing with the kittens and visiting friends. But I closed up the leg seam that didn't get finished when the sewing machine's likely-antique drive band broke, pressed and hemmed it, and then made a waistband with interfacing to test it with (that's part of the method but... I was feeling v lazy. And then tried to use a faced waistband instead of the proper one, and let's just say it was less work to do the proper one lol.
One change I had to make: taking out like THREE AND A HALF INCHES in the back. The size 18 spanned my waist from side to side with no issues! The size 16 back, the same size that my mock-up was cut to, was MASSIVE. Correspoindingly, the legs also needed to be taken in quite a bit on the side.
I pinched and pinned and released and sat (or bent over to simulate sitting) and analyzed... I think I need a bit more depth through the front crotch. I kept having weird puddles around my knees. I tried to take up length at the thigh -- nope that didn't work. I tried (A) to find that (B) became worse (like attempting to raise the sides, to find that the CF/CB pulled too much. What is the solution!
Turns out... maybe too much height in the rise/outer hip. I YANKED the legs up high to get them to lay nicely (and so that I didn't need to pull them up when sitting), and with the waist in place, I had huge folds in the leg joint. Pinched that out and... oh. Oh. Maybe that's the solution.
I made my pattern adjustment and I'd like to cut one more mock up just to be sure since it changed the grainlines, particularly on the back. Further thoughts to follow.
PS: the kittens have discovered they have LEGS and BALANCE (mostly) and they are boing boing boing! Until they get too tired, and then they nap just as hard as they were playing. Smallest of the bunch Calcifer tires out soonest, and then Sophie was playing in my lap before taking a nap there (MY HEAAAAART) and after she left for lunch at the milk bar, I was laying on the floor. Calcifer woke up and came to join me, playing with my shirt, and then Sophie and Chihiro came to join him and for a little bit Wrestlemania was happening right under my chin! (Chihiro then leapt at my face to play and actually drew blood with her needle claws) They are just the cutest!
Only had a couple hours yesterday, in between playing with the kittens and visiting friends. But I closed up the leg seam that didn't get finished when the sewing machine's likely-antique drive band broke, pressed and hemmed it, and then made a waistband with interfacing to test it with (that's part of the method but... I was feeling v lazy. And then tried to use a faced waistband instead of the proper one, and let's just say it was less work to do the proper one lol.
One change I had to make: taking out like THREE AND A HALF INCHES in the back. The size 18 spanned my waist from side to side with no issues! The size 16 back, the same size that my mock-up was cut to, was MASSIVE. Correspoindingly, the legs also needed to be taken in quite a bit on the side.
I pinched and pinned and released and sat (or bent over to simulate sitting) and analyzed... I think I need a bit more depth through the front crotch. I kept having weird puddles around my knees. I tried to take up length at the thigh -- nope that didn't work. I tried (A) to find that (B) became worse (like attempting to raise the sides, to find that the CF/CB pulled too much. What is the solution!
Turns out... maybe too much height in the rise/outer hip. I YANKED the legs up high to get them to lay nicely (and so that I didn't need to pull them up when sitting), and with the waist in place, I had huge folds in the leg joint. Pinched that out and... oh. Oh. Maybe that's the solution.
I made my pattern adjustment and I'd like to cut one more mock up just to be sure since it changed the grainlines, particularly on the back. Further thoughts to follow.
PS: the kittens have discovered they have LEGS and BALANCE (mostly) and they are boing boing boing! Until they get too tired, and then they nap just as hard as they were playing. Smallest of the bunch Calcifer tires out soonest, and then Sophie was playing in my lap before taking a nap there (MY HEAAAAART) and after she left for lunch at the milk bar, I was laying on the floor. Calcifer woke up and came to join me, playing with my shirt, and then Sophie and Chihiro came to join him and for a little bit Wrestlemania was happening right under my chin! (Chihiro then leapt at my face to play and actually drew blood with her needle claws) They are just the cutest!
