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Non-Euclidean trousers (243/365)
I've made lots of pairs of elastic-waisted trousers over the last few years. This week, I made my first pair without elastic.
These are the Harper trousers from Wendy Ward's Sewing Basics for Every Body. It's a unisex pattern for traditional pleat-front menswear-style trousers, which appealed to me a lot, though I suspect that being a unisex pattern may account for the fact that they're tight on the upper hips and loose at the waist. I also found that the waistband was mysteriously a good two inches shorter than the waist of the trousers, so I had to cut the piece in half and add an extra bit at the back. I thought that maybe I'd made a mistake tracing the pattern (one of the worst things with patterns from books is that you end up having to trace off multi-sized patterns from sheets with several patterns overlaid on each other), as the notches lined up around three-quarters of the trousers and the difference all seemed to be in the right front, but when I checked back my pattern piece seemed to be symmetrical and my fronts are the same size, so I can only conclude that I have somehow managed to make non-Euclidean trousers.
Anyway, overall I'm quite pleased with these, though I'm not sure I will actually use the pattern again.
These are the Harper trousers from Wendy Ward's Sewing Basics for Every Body. It's a unisex pattern for traditional pleat-front menswear-style trousers, which appealed to me a lot, though I suspect that being a unisex pattern may account for the fact that they're tight on the upper hips and loose at the waist. I also found that the waistband was mysteriously a good two inches shorter than the waist of the trousers, so I had to cut the piece in half and add an extra bit at the back. I thought that maybe I'd made a mistake tracing the pattern (one of the worst things with patterns from books is that you end up having to trace off multi-sized patterns from sheets with several patterns overlaid on each other), as the notches lined up around three-quarters of the trousers and the difference all seemed to be in the right front, but when I checked back my pattern piece seemed to be symmetrical and my fronts are the same size, so I can only conclude that I have somehow managed to make non-Euclidean trousers.
Anyway, overall I'm quite pleased with these, though I'm not sure I will actually use the pattern again.