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Sarah makes pants…

And maybe I shouldn’t have? This fabric had stripes running from selvedge to selvedge. I didn’t want pants with horizontal stripes, so I laid the pattern pieces out on the cross grain, so the stripes would run up and down. Hmmmm….

I definitely won’t be wearing this vest and top with the pants (which are summery weight). I think if I wear a top that comes over the top of the pants, they’ll be OK…maybe even tunic length. I aligned the strip carefully with the grainline on the pattern, but they just don’t want to hang straight.

The fabric is a rayon-blend I think, almost crepe-y, kinda crinkly so that if I were to iron out the crinkles, the legs would be siginificantly longer. I’m wondering again if laying out the pattern on the cross-grain was such a good idea. Oh well…that’s what happens when you buy fabric on the internet and can’t actually unroll a length and drape it to see what you’re going to do with it! (original idea was for a jumper or skirt, but since I never wear the jumpers and skirts I have, I nixed that idea after I ordered the fabric……) At least I remembered to pre-shrink the fabric!

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