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My pants were TOO BIG!! I should have tried them on when the directions said to. I had already stitched it down and finished the legs and pinned up the hems. Dang it!! On Friday (Canada Day) I ripped the elastic stitching out, pulled out almost 2" and stitched it down again. Then I tried them on to determine hem length and finished that too. And I still need to make adjustments. I have too much room in the hip now (sigh), leading me to believe that maybe I just need extra in the crotch area and NOT on the outside area? That'll be for the next version, I guess.

I also tried on and pinned up the Smooth Sailing pants i made last year, but forgot it all downstairs to try on in my room where the only full length mirror currently is. Then I decided to clear of my table a bit and pinned up and pressed the Edwardian skirt, and spent some hours stitching it down which sitting on the couch. It just needs closures now.

Started a top, but it requires interfacing in the waistband, and I don't have any. I will make a trip to the store soon.

Last night I had the worst sleep, including dreams about having to talk to my mother. Hoping to sleep better tonight.

I got a little bit of sewing completed on Monday while recovering from the migraine. I pulled out the elastic on the pants and reworked the channels, stitched it all down. Then it was time to finish up the inseam and hem it and it would be complete.

Guido and I noticed the centipede at the same time. He gave it a good sniff and walked away. I called it a night. Both him and my basement spider Eustace are USELESS.

Then I wasn't sleepy until VERY late, so I basically had a 2 hour nap before work on Tuesday, and I had no brains for anything. Yesterday was Loki finale, but I had about a 1 hour window between the time I got home and when my roommates did, so I quickly did up the final bits, and it took perhaps 45 mins to stitch, serge, press, and stitch lol. I even trimmed a bunch of threads! They are DONE and they have POCKETS big enough to stick kittens in. I'm going to wear them to work tomorrow.

This morning I thought my next to-do should be hem up the blue pants and pink skirt but... that's hardly fun! (I will still do it) What shall I create next? I bought a couple Deer and Doe patterns that still need printing, I have a skirt to make up, I need to find a jacket pattern to go with my new pants to make a suit... I have also been seeing loose dresses with tiered skirts everywhere (starting with a black one in a store window in the spring, the kind of store where a plain t-shirt sells for $70) and I want one. I have some patterns at home I can swing without needing to buy a specialty one, then it's just picking out the fabric.

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.