Lounge Trousers
For my sister for Christmas we were going to get her some cool PJ's and a robe and slippers (actually, 2 of the 3, but we were undecided which) from Ezibuy, a mail-order catalogue, and they were pretty cool, but then we got her something else and I made her a new wallet. I was going to get a picture of the wallet but I forgot again until I had already wrapped it up. It looked cool and only took about 3-4 hours to make including making some bias binding and hand-sewing it on. I was actually a bit disappointed it took so little time, so we bought her something else too. It wasn't as much of a labour of love as I was imagining :)
Anyway, I think the pyjama idea stuck in my head somewhat because then we saw some lounge pants in a shop, like pyjama pants for lounging around in, and they came in their own matching bag. And so I decided I should make some. Undoubtedly it would have been easier and maybe even cheaper to buy them, but whatever. We went shopping to get some material, and I found this amazing but fairly thin and fragile-seeming cotton. We needed 2.5 metres at about $16/m or something, with is why it might have been cheaper to buy the actual article (but I actually ended up with quite a bit left over, because of the fact that we needed a lot length-wise but there was a fair amount spare down the side, yay, so I get that... ). There were various colours, and some different flower motifs, most of them containing various shades of one colour, but we went with this one:
Which is pretty cool. It is very soft too.
So after her coming around for me to measure her, because she couldn't send me her own measurements, I then proceeded to make a slightly different size as it seemed that otherwise they would be ludicrously huge, no matter what the pattern packet said - never trust the packets, always measure the pieces instead. They usually include enough ease for you to slip an elephant in there with you. So I just made simple pyjama trousers, a 2-piece pattern, with a drawstring waist.
The pattern was "Simplicity So Easy 5381", which isn't available anymore. I just looked at the other "So Easy" patterns, and they don't contain so much stuff, I think this one was trousers, singlet and sweatshirt. Most of the patterns there now are only 1 or 2 different items. I may update this with a pic of the packet if I can ever charge the digital camera.
This is what they look like hanging up.
Pretty exciting eh? They are more interesting when someone is wearing them I suppose.
I was going to make the singlet too but I realised that it had to made out of stretch material, so I didn't. The matching bag was a rectangle of material folded in half and sewn up with a drawstring top. I have lost half of the instructions for the pattern, including all those for the actual trousers, so I didn't know how I was supposed to work the drawstring and get it to the outside so you could do it up, so I decided to do two buttonholes at the centre front and have them come out through there. The bag was done the same.
And I got some pretty flower patterned ribbon, which wasn't quite what I was looking for, I wanted something softer and wider, but there wasn't anything in the right colour. But this is nice with the flowers, as a matching motif.
I felt a bit guilty with so much spare material, and I wanted something more and since I couldn't do the singlet I made a simple scarf out of a long cylinder of material, you know, for fun.
You really can't appreciate the material unless you feel it though, it is so thin and soft. And warm feeling with a slightly rough-fluffy surface. And what a great happy colour pattern. Anyway, I was quite happy with that, and I quite like it as a gift too. You know how sometimes you aren't really happy with what you give someone, and sometimes you are?
Anyway, I think the pyjama idea stuck in my head somewhat because then we saw some lounge pants in a shop, like pyjama pants for lounging around in, and they came in their own matching bag. And so I decided I should make some. Undoubtedly it would have been easier and maybe even cheaper to buy them, but whatever. We went shopping to get some material, and I found this amazing but fairly thin and fragile-seeming cotton. We needed 2.5 metres at about $16/m or something, with is why it might have been cheaper to buy the actual article (but I actually ended up with quite a bit left over, because of the fact that we needed a lot length-wise but there was a fair amount spare down the side, yay, so I get that... ). There were various colours, and some different flower motifs, most of them containing various shades of one colour, but we went with this one:
Which is pretty cool. It is very soft too.So after her coming around for me to measure her, because she couldn't send me her own measurements, I then proceeded to make a slightly different size as it seemed that otherwise they would be ludicrously huge, no matter what the pattern packet said - never trust the packets, always measure the pieces instead. They usually include enough ease for you to slip an elephant in there with you. So I just made simple pyjama trousers, a 2-piece pattern, with a drawstring waist.
The pattern was "Simplicity So Easy 5381", which isn't available anymore. I just looked at the other "So Easy" patterns, and they don't contain so much stuff, I think this one was trousers, singlet and sweatshirt. Most of the patterns there now are only 1 or 2 different items. I may update this with a pic of the packet if I can ever charge the digital camera.
This is what they look like hanging up.
Pretty exciting eh? They are more interesting when someone is wearing them I suppose.I was going to make the singlet too but I realised that it had to made out of stretch material, so I didn't. The matching bag was a rectangle of material folded in half and sewn up with a drawstring top. I have lost half of the instructions for the pattern, including all those for the actual trousers, so I didn't know how I was supposed to work the drawstring and get it to the outside so you could do it up, so I decided to do two buttonholes at the centre front and have them come out through there. The bag was done the same.
And I got some pretty flower patterned ribbon, which wasn't quite what I was looking for, I wanted something softer and wider, but there wasn't anything in the right colour. But this is nice with the flowers, as a matching motif.I felt a bit guilty with so much spare material, and I wanted something more and since I couldn't do the singlet I made a simple scarf out of a long cylinder of material, you know, for fun.
You really can't appreciate the material unless you feel it though, it is so thin and soft. And warm feeling with a slightly rough-fluffy surface. And what a great happy colour pattern. Anyway, I was quite happy with that, and I quite like it as a gift too. You know how sometimes you aren't really happy with what you give someone, and sometimes you are?
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