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Pajayjay party!

Confession: I didn’t get my sewing machine serviced when I said I would. I kept it all through finals, all through moving, and once I got it all set up in my new space, it started making angry noises....

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Do the stanky leg, or, a not-so-basic basic

I made leggings! And I found a plain wall to photograph them against! I’d been staring at this fabric at my local fabric store for several months, thinking they’d be perfect for leggings. Seeing...

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Pleated pythonic pants

Readers, I present you with my first pair of pants! Not much about these pants happened quickly; I started them in April and it took me two muslins and a bunch more alterations to finish them in early...

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Summer pants in winter

Hey gang! After including my python pants in my hits of 2013 (and realizing that I have one pair of pants that works for cold weather), I decided to take a third* stab at at the same pattern (Burda...

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Pants v4

This is the face of a smug, smug person who has pants that fit. As I mentioned before, I found yards of this denim at SCRAP (a very cool creative reuse store in Portland).  I couldn’t believe my luck!...

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Cheating

I’ve been stepping out on my coat project with… jeans! I have three excuses. One, after I finished up my denim trousers, I had a strong hankering to see if I could adapt my pattern by removing the...

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Wedding guest… suit?

Dearest readers, thank you so much for your thoughtful replies to my last post on taking a sabbatical. It was heartening to hear how many of you have had similar thoughts or made a similar change; if...

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Bias-bound inside waistband tutorial

If I’ve been learning anything from my MMM mini-challenge, it’s that two pairs of pants – my jeans and linen pants – aren’t sufficient for one unique me-made outfit per week! I do have a few skirts,...

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Cloudy Polly and the drama pants

I found myself with a hankering to replace my dissatisfying black pants during May. I found them at the thrift store a few years ago, and never loved them even after slimming the leg and cropping the...

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Pants progress

My last post dealt with shoulder fit, but I’d like to take a detour to Pants Land (or Trouser Town, if you’re British?) Last year I made my first two pairs of jeans. The first one was the best-fitting...

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Flare bear

I was on a major flare high after making denim trousers, and was certain that a pair of flared jeans would be just the thing. So I made them out of this fantastically thick no-stretch denim I found at...

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Canada Pants

I’m excited to share my Morgan jeans today! Since it would be weird to call your own jeans by your first name, I call them my Canada Pants. Not only were they are designed by Canadian Heather Lou, but...

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A shift into neutral and a grainline mystery

Every time I make some kind of pronouncement – like “Hey, I’m into sewing colorful fabrics now!” – I seem to go out of my way to defy myself. Well, it’s happened again. No sooner had I written that...

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Kimono sleeves on McCall’s 6436, times four

I’ve been admiring some of the awesome kimono-sleeved buttoned shirt patterns (like the StyleArc Blair – check out Kelli’s and Meg’s – and Deer & Doe Melilot – check out Katie’s) and became...

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