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Embroidered Cord over at Minerva

Sewist — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 13:52:00 +0000

I can’t believe I haven’t posted these here yet! I made these jeans last year, with some embroidered cord from Minerva. To make it fit on their new website (I had too many photos for a single post!), the blog post is split into three: One – Two – Three I’d never sewn with cord […]

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Zen Chameleons – another finished project!

Sewist — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 09:00:33 +0000

I had a pile of trouser projects needing hemming, so I picked these Zen Pants* out at random so I had something finished this week. I did make a slight error on the waistband – I didn’t cut the elastic short enough, so the waistband is a little wavy in places. I’ve got around that by […]

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Zen Chameleons

Sewist — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 09:00:34 +0000

Not content with my unfinished jeans, I decided to start another pair of trousers this week…. this fabric is the same type as the penguins, polar bears and astronomy designs and has just about the right amount of stretch to make a pair of Zen Pants* by 5 out of 4 Patterns. I bought a metre […]

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Real Deal Penguins!

Sewist — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 09:00:27 +0000

Ok, I know I haven’t finished my first Real Deal Jeans yet, but I spotted this penguin fabric in town the other day, and couldn’t resist seeing if it’d work for another pair of jeans. This is a stretchier fabric than the pattern calls for, so I’ll be adding in some elastic to the waistband, […]

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