Dancepants

 Loosing weight, even if it is intentional and you are working hard for it,  is not only sunshine and happyness... Like, as happy I am about being able to wear smaller clothes, and dress according to what I like (instead of what I am fitting into), things also have shadowy sides. 

Like having to remake most of my historical clothes--- though I do not mind that so much, because now I can make stuff better, more thought trough than back, when I did not had the knowledge and/or the time for that.

On the other hand, having everything hanging on me, not only the clothes, but my thighs, my arms, my skin is much worst and I decided to do something about that. I started going to a dance-cardio class, but I needed clothes for that too. Yes, sports bras, and thank tops are fine, I was not about start sewing those, but I also needed pants/trousers. 

I wanted wide legged, bubble/barrel shaped pants. So I decided to sew them. 

I looked through some patterns on Etsy, I decided on one, made a useable mock up from a really old piece of leftover futter (I bought that fabric when my nephew was born 34 years ago, I made the some onesies to the newborn boy, who is an adult since), and then thought hard about what I want to change.

To emphasize the barrel shape, I took off some of the width at the waist, and added a couple of cm-s to the leg, also took off a few cm at the bottom. Furthermore, I changed the shape of the front pocket. 

The first one I made from some white cotton futter (compared to the other one, this piece of fabric was relatively new, only a few years old). 

Unfortunately, my double needle industrial machine is not working, and the household one, that can be fitted with a twin needle could not take the 3-4layer of futter fabric, so I used a single needle for the double overstitch. It did not needed to be strechy, so it was fine. 

Then I as I was digging though my knit-fabric (futter) stash, I came across one, that once again was very old. It was bought in I Love Textil, though I cannot remember exactly when. Definetly, before Chris was small kid, but might be even earlier. I loved that fabric, no wonder I hung on to it for so many years. Even though it was for trainers, or hoodies, or something the like, it was not as elastic, and it had a gorgeous faded denim blue color. I remember, I did sew a pair of training trousers back then from it.

I thought it is high time I use it now. 

I did apply the same changes I used on the white one, and als used the single needle for the decorative stitching. This time I added the back pockets too.

Since I can categorize both pants as a succes, I will make other ones, probably trying other patterns as well. 

Pattern: Kaashi Patterns

Fabric: I Love Textil

Phhotos: Bodeszphoto