![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
white_hartI normally like swapping my winter and summer wardrobes. However much I struggle with the lengthening nights, being able to wear layers and warm jumpers and scarves and boots again always feels like it goes a long way towards making up for it (even if the actual positive effect on my mental health is negligible compared to the impact of the darkness). This year, though, I've spent the summer rotating four pairs of trousers and a fairly small number of tops and have been happier with summer dressing than I have for a very long time, and my winter wardrobe is full of dresses and even after substantial weeding still feels rather more feminine than I'd like.
In an attempt to rectify this, I have spent this wet Saturday afternoon making a pair of trousers - the 100 Acts of Sewing Pants No 1 in olive-green needlecord. I made a test pair of these in the summer, in some purple cotton poplin, and was very pleased with how they turned out; the pattern is very straightforward (not really being much different from pyjama trousers, apart from being a bit more fitted) and they really didn't take that long. I wouldn't choose an elastic waist if I was buying trousers (though saying that I did get a pair of elastic-waisted linen trousers from M&S this summer when I desperately wanted something as light as possible) but it certainly makes sewing them easier, and it's not as if I'd ever wear trousers with the waistband exposed. I'm still a little bit wary about wearing them to work, but I hope I manage to get over that.
In an attempt to rectify this, I have spent this wet Saturday afternoon making a pair of trousers - the 100 Acts of Sewing Pants No 1 in olive-green needlecord. I made a test pair of these in the summer, in some purple cotton poplin, and was very pleased with how they turned out; the pattern is very straightforward (not really being much different from pyjama trousers, apart from being a bit more fitted) and they really didn't take that long. I wouldn't choose an elastic waist if I was buying trousers (though saying that I did get a pair of elastic-waisted linen trousers from M&S this summer when I desperately wanted something as light as possible) but it certainly makes sewing them easier, and it's not as if I'd ever wear trousers with the waistband exposed. I'm still a little bit wary about wearing them to work, but I hope I manage to get over that.
no subject
Date: 2018-09-22 07:24 pm (UTC)I am impressed at making trousers, elastic-waisted or no!
no subject
Date: 2018-09-23 08:35 am (UTC)I felt reasonably confident because I have made lots of pyjamas (pyjamas are low-stress sewing because by definition you aren't going to wear them in public), but am still impressed with myself for making trousers I might wear in public!