Pietra Pants: Full steam ahead

[totchipanda]

Last night I ate dinner pretty early and then took myself, where I worked with singular focus for almost three full hours (and forgot to drink any water in that entire time -- oops) I traced out the pattern pieces, esp the ones I wanted to modify, made the mods, checked them against the patterns I knew I liked from last year. Fun fact! At least for this pattern, the straight size 20 is almost exactly the same as the plus sized 14. I did not compare the same length of pattern though, and used the shorts to compare the legs, so there may still be some tightness on the thigh. I will try them on and let out seams before I finish any edges. (Though looking at the pattern illustration, the short has a bit of a flaring hem, I might be OK; I left the hip and top of the thigh area at a full 20 and graded the rest to a 16) And then I dove right into my chosen fabric (a pretty grey-blue that I thought was cotton, but I washed it recently and it came out of the dryer with nary a wrinkle, so it's more likely poly), and started stitching away.

Should be able to finish that tonight, provided I don't get waylaid in the living room lol. I know I don't HAVE to spend my evenings with my roomies, but I do like them even after all this time living together, so I like to spend time with them. On the other hand, I want some damn pants lol.