Thank you all so much for all your comments and suggestions on my post about my pants fitting struggles and seemingly endless cycle of muslins to try and fix the bagginess at the back of my thighs. I really appreciate your thoughts, helpful ideas, and commiseration. After my post, I mulled over all the suggestions, did more research, and started to try out some new adjustments on one of my previous muslins (the ugly ... Read more »
butterick B5895
Pants muslins and back of thigh wrinkles have nearly done me in
My sewing friends out there, I'm about to get all fitting saga on you. And it's about pants. I know. It's a really really really long post about pants. You've been warned. I kind of wish this were about the British use of the term pants, it would probably be more fun. Alternate post titles? How about "Fitting pants is a bitch". Or maybe "A tale of misguided adjustments". Or "I will get these pants right if it kills ... Read more »
Triumphant return of cigarette pants (or, how I ate my words)
Maybe it's the unusually cool weather we've had lately, but my lust for pants has returned. A week or so ago I started hearing a niggling voice in the back of my head. It was telling me, "Pssst... remember those red cigarette pants you abandoned last spring? Butterick B5895? Maybe you should try them on." Against what I thought was my better judgment at the time, I went to my Sewing Corner of Shame (where I put failed ... Read more »