Finished Object : Shorts - 7 August 2024
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I started writing about this sewing project here and then about the chosen fabric for the finished pair of shorts here.
For days I felt really intimated and found it hard to start cutting the special fabric : too nice to cut, not really my fabric and so on. I shouldn't have worried so much; I had to be brave and eventually just got on with it. I’m happy to report that it went just fine. I was very careful to lay the fabric the right way around.
I placed all the pattern pieces correctly and even managed to get a lot of extra material to make another project. In the photo above I show you the pattern pieces and the two back pieces as I was cutting them. The table’s too small to lay the whole project so it was a question of cutting the two backs and then the two fronts. I was able to use some left overs for the pockets.
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It was really good and a relief to see the project come together : all the pieces fitted together really well and the size I chose fitted my friend.
This link will take you to the free sewing pattern for the shorts in case you are ever interested. I recommend the pattern because it worked well sometimes things don't work out as advertised. The only alteration I made was that I cut the waistband much wider. I basically just made it 13 cm wide and then folded it in half. This is because my friend wanted it a bit wider. The elastic was not as wide but my friend didn't mind.
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The photo above shows you the finished pair of shorts just before I added the elastic. The colour of the fabric is so dark that I had to put a pair of scissors in the pocket to show where it was. Making the pockets was very straightforward just following the video I told you about before too.
My friend was a bit reluctant to model the finished pair of shorts but she's not taken them off since I made them for her. I've even suggested she should buy another piece of fabric to make another pair !
Thank you for reading !
( The photos are all mine)
What a gorgeous looking fabric @flowertron! And it seems you did indeed worry for nothing, because the shorts look super!
You know, you talk about getting yourself all worked up - to a point that you can't even begin... because you are scared to mess things up. Now, you actually have some relative justification for that, but I also do the same thing sometimes... just before starting a drawing or design, and I have no idea why... because I can just start over... and over and over again lol - but oddly that knowledge does little to help my anxiety.
Seems many creatives get stuck in that sort of "doubt loop". Silly really, isn't it. 😊
I'm glad I'm not the only one who gets that 'inability to just get on with it', @jaynie ! 😃
Definitely not. ;)
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¡Misión cumplida! Ahora tu amiga no se quiere quitar el pantalón, eso quiere decir que has sido un éxito.
Fuiste valiente, cuidadosa y talentosa para salir adelante. Lo más importante que lo aprendido nunca se olvida.
Gracias por compartir, saludos y que sigan tus éxitos.
Thank you @casv. I'm pleased and also wondering what sort of special fabric she'll come up with next !
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