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After the magic of pants (shorts, really) that actually fit on Saturday, I spent the afternoon cleaning off the outside air conditioning unit. I thought it was covered in tree fluff, but it turned out to be about 85% dog hair. I don't think it was ever cleaned after it was installed. It took about an hour, including removing the top in an attempt to get at the coil more easily (it was not), and putting it back on. I used a bamboo skewer and my fingies to pull it all loose, and I wore two masks to keep from getting my sinuses full of... whatever was stuck to it. So much dust flew out.

Yesterday I was like YES I'm going to see how my new favourite pattern compares to the Thurlow trousers I made last year, and ended up doing some tidying/rearranging in the sewing room instead. I moved the mirror from its home of 2 or 3 years, measured some spaces to see about more desks for sewing equipment, and then emptied out two boxes of stuff from the old apartment, which def had been affected by the flood. Oh, and I swept the floor, so a year's worth of basement dust on bare concrete and flood-debris, my sinuses were done with that too TYVM. I did lay out the pattern (what started the cleaning/organizing was the number of dust bunnies, and wanting to get at my pattern box) and like... yikes.

I don't think I ever posted about the Thurlow mock-ups here. I believe I was making a size 12, and for a pattern that is purported to be drafted for people with larger hip/waist ratios, I still had too-tight hips and gapping waistband. I had add 2" to the rise since I wanted something that came up over my belly, and I had drag lines EVERYWHERE. I still don't know enough about pants fitting (despite utilizing the excellent and long guide Mala linked in a previous entry) to understand where the issues are (dear high school sewing classes: THIS WOULD BE USEFUL TO LEARN). So they've been in time-out ever since. I don't even know where the mock-up is.

Well I overlaid my modified pattern with the Pietra pattern and I would need to add a little to the inseam/crotch seam and then 2" MINIMUM to front and back. All while still keeping the waist more or less the same. Goodness. I was too tired yesterday to make much sense of it, so I ended up leaving it all on the table and took a nap.

Today I have printed out the plus size version of the pants I tried on Thursday. We shall see how they turn out later in the week.

And thankfully, the heat wave broke on Friday night. Saturday was a pleasant afternoon to spend peeling 3 summers worth of dog hair from the AC unit, and yesterday was also very pleasant. Today it is currently 16C (like... 65F?) and cloudy and it is DELIGHTFUL.