Yep! That's what I'm making. Bought the hop swing pants pattern (I will still call them trousers- I can't get over the fact that pants to me are underwear. lol) from Eliza M.
Anyway I had a limited amount of suitable fabric and didn't want to mess it up. So I decide to do a wearable muslin and to make good use of limited resources made 'shorts'.
I had to add more to the outside seams at my hips and a small amount to inner thigh seam.
I sewed up the darts, then side seams then the rather confusing at first, but its logical if you think about it crotch seam. Making sure when I got to the back I left room for a zip.
Now can anyone see what step I missed out? No...I'll give you a clue.
Yep. I forgot to take in the waist....by the time I noticed this I'd already added the facing and zip.
(I'm sure fabric grows when I'm not looking.)
Anyway my solution was to make a dart in the two side seams.
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| View from inside. Note my snazzy facing. |
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| View from inside |
Minor disaster averted (and actually now I know exactly how much to take off the waist of the master pattern.) All I had to do was hem the shorts. The problem is how short should shorts be? And when do shorts become hotpants? After brief survey went for the 'long' shorts.
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| apologies for shaky camerawork |
Haha ahh you made me chuckle at the pants thing. I know exactly what you mean. Everyone calls trousers pants where i love and i always called underwear pants haha. I have been dying to get my hands on this pattern!!! I would go mid thigh for the length and then turn it up. You don't want to go showing your bum to the world :-)
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You do know there's a sale on at the moment all pattern £7.50.
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get ye a pair! ;)
I'm British as well, although I live in Canada now, and there have been a number of miscommunications because of knickers/pants/trousers!
ReplyDeleteLovely shorts (or longs!). I think the below knee ones sre the most flattering, rather like 'city shorts'!
I went for longer in the end (I can always roll em up later). I was thinking it loks a bit land girl-ish, but someone else mentioned it was a bit more 'famous five'.
DeleteSo they are now my 'five go lindy hopping swing shorts'. ;)