mary-masked

Jumper!

Published: May 19th 2020, 11:57:53 am

I took a break from mask sewing to do some personal sewing. The weather is getting warmer and right now my summer lounge wear consists of incredibly old Twilight Zone Boxers and a croptop sporting a slogan so suggestive I dare not wear it out of the house. Nothing wrong with that, but I like to have some options. There are also days where I am so exceptionally low on whatever brain chemical could be characterized as "deal with it juice" that I only want to wear something as incredibly easy and comfortable as a onesie. And those only seem to come in fleece.
So last year I bought some cotton jersey in some lovely colors and promptly did nothing with them for a year. It was time to change that.

I started with a pattern that was...kind of what I wanted.

The uncoolest part of the early 90's called, even *they* don't want this outfit back.

I shortened the legs but otherwise made the pattern pretty much the way it was intended, skipping any pocket stuff. Because the sizing on patterns make no sense whatsoever, I ended up with what was essentially a pink potato sack. Mercifully, there are no photos.

Not what I was hoping for, but an ok place to start. Easier to deal with too much fabric than too little. All told, I took the thing apart and put it back together at least three times, recut one piece compleatly, and added some godets to the sides because a little flare in the legs was desperately needed.


Now that I look at the photo I'm not crazy about the camel toe happening but maybe that's just the photo?


Maybe not.
I might just need to iron that seam out or something. I also need to reinforce the seams because one's already coming undone. This is why I don't actually sell things I sew.

It's not perfect but it's comfortable as hell and I really like the color. If I ever want to perfect it I'll smooth out that bottom hem and probably add some ruffles or something to cover up the godets.

I made notes on the pattern of what changes I made so I can save time on the next one and know what my preferred lengths are for shorts. Of course, the next version I want to make will have full length pants but whatever. This one dollar pattern is well on its way to creating garments that are cute as hell.

Later I tried out the lighting system I got for Christmas so here's some shots from that. Hopefully I'll get together an actual shoot soon!