Palazzo Pants

I finally finished these palazzo pants! I used Butterick pattern B4807

I may have had to nip in this pattern more at the waist as I usually need to with comercial patterns but since the leg design is so wide, long and flowy they looked great as is 🙂

Super fast and easy sew! I finished the edges with my serger and hemmed them super long ….maybe too long but with heels it will be just barely off the floor. I am trying to get the most out of the illusion of height that I can 🙂

This material is a very thin flowy polyester of some sort I got this at the fabric district in LA for $2.00 a yard!! I feel like I am wearing PJ’s they are uber comfortable!  I made view B and it took a total of 2 hours with alterations. Cost $6.00

Happy Sewing 🙂

Distressed Flap Pockets

I was very super excited to work on my pocket flaps. So here are some pics of what I did so far.

I cut my pattern pieces being careful to center my embroidery I then added some thread catches at the end of the three points so that I can pivot easily when sewing my seam allowance in case things got a little tricky with such a skinny bit under the presser foot. 😉

Oh ya I ran the top edges through the serger too because jean material frays badly. Once I sewed my seam I snipped my corners and turned right side out and pressed and used my clapper to get good results.

I then distressed my edges more before topstitching. You will notice I distressed a little too much in some areas and it is thread bare in some spots! Nuts! Oh well I can say that I was going for the “really worn look”.

Next I took a piece of denim and figured out  which topstitching stitch I would use and what length etc.

I am using denim thread, white in color and I am using it in my bobbin too. Not sure if you put the heavy denim thread in the bobbin too? But I thought what the hell I’ll step on the wild side.

So I used a triple stitch set at 3.5 and edged around my flaps 1/4 inch or so.

Cardi-Wrap

I made this over the weekend with some very pretty, dainty knit material I bought a few months ago. Because of the length of the long front panels this took most of the 4 yards of fabric I bought. I serged the seams and made a small hem along the raw edges. This was fast and easy to make. Here are all the fun ways you can wear it 🙂

Girls Craft Day

Jennifer and I don’t get together as often as we like so I was very blessed to have her company on Sunday for a few hours.  She brought over her new treasure to share with me (MR SERGER) yes that’s right her obsession is only heightening and she got a serger as a christmas gift.

Jen brought over her IPA holiday beer to share with me! Yum

I was showing her the ropes and how to thread the machine and we worked on making pj pants for her daughter.

By the way she is a demon with the foot pedal, watch those needles! 🙂

Best friends are family we get to choose! Love you Jen and thank you for a great afternoon.