Before Christmas, Jaden went with me to the fabric store and surprisingly showed some interest in fabrics (yey!). She picked out flannel done in baby pink with cartoon kitties on it for a pajama project that I thought would be great for Christmas morning. Unfortunately, as always, the intent was bigger than me, so the project was forgotten until mid-January on my first flex day. I battled the urge to vegetate on the couch with the laptop and the TV remote (I can multitask this much), and moved my trusty Brother sewing machine from a dark corner to the bright dining table.
After this....
and this....
I made this!
The pattern I stumbled into online said to take a well-fitting pair of pants and trace onto the fabric, cut, and sew, and voila! Quite easy for a first clothing project for me. I worried a bit about the fabric edges as I don't have a serger, I wasn't too keen on trying the zigzag stitch, and I didn't own pinking shears. So there were several raw seams inside the pants, that thankfully has not unraveled yet, and I hear flannel holds very nicely. One leg doesn't have a seam; I could have made both legs seamless on the outer part, but I was being stingy about the fabric, so the other leg had to be seamed both sides, and it was the perfect chance for me to try a flat seam. By a mixture of good luck and tongue-biting, the seam turned out perfectly! And I ended up with enough fabric for another pair (albeit I only had enough willpower to make one that day, so it's sitting in my to-do basket for another spurt of activity).
Here is the proud owner of the new pajama bottoms!
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