Summer Sewing #4

The last two pieces we have sewn this summer were two Alasya yogapants, Ottobre 4/2015.

Again a great pants to show some tricks, although our gymnast claims the pants does not allow her to do full splits?!

We also made one in a neutral fabric. The fabric stays very good even after a couple of washes it does not change colors. The flight dusk series interlock on the other hand washes off rather quickly.

 First she puts them on ...

 Then off course, she shows more tricks ...

Summer Sewing #2

The pictures of these Summer Sews were taken in Belgium.
As the Randy pants was constantly dirty in Belgium we did not get the occasion to take pictures just yet. Luckily I got the chance before she is worn off.

'Best pants ever.' According to my son.

The pants surely gives him enough freedom of motion and inspiration!

Pattern: La Maison de Victor
Fabric: De Stoffenkamer @ Ghent

Dalton WITH Felix

He changed his mind!

He finally wants to wear the Dalton pants. He even allowed me to take some pictures.

Although it still has to happen rather quickly as his good mood changed in a glimpse of an eye.

Dalton

I know the Dalton pants from La Maison de Victor (edition 3), is the perfect pants for Felix. We enlarged the pattern as it is not provided for huge 3 year olds!

So far the pants are hanging on our wall with washi-tape, because Felix is still not a big fan of homemade garments and consequently he is very unhappy when I dress him with his new Dalton. Although it looks gorgeous on him.

I plan to make one for Jade soon because she loves homemade garments and sometimes that is just enough to motivate Felix to start wearing his!

Pants

We made space in the cabinet, got rid of some old pants, and replaced them with the uniform; luckily not all space got taken by the uniforms. We made some ‘Jacobs’ to fill the empty spaces. The short version suits us best.

A grey version with blue piping on the pockets.

A sea blue one with yellow piping on the pockets.

A blue dark blue one with yellow piping on the pockets.

A green one with neon orange piping on the pockets.

A blue one with white/orange squares and yellow piping on the pockets.

Elias additionally asked for a macho short version. He got one in camouflage fabric with neon orange piping on the pockets.

Three shorts per son, to make sure I can skip ironing once and a while.

Mending

The school uniforms need space in the cabinets so we had to through our kid’s pile of clothes. Some of the boys’ pants were mended. 

Some of the boys’ pants are worn to shreds and after recuperating the buttons the pants went straight to the bin.

After mending we even found some time to sew some more Jacob pants. Stay tuned for the pictures of our version of the Jacob.

KCW Winter 2014 - Jacob part 3

KCW is the perfect motivator to work double as hard, and today we made Elias smile! A happy boy thanks to this short version of THE Jacob pants.

Perfect fit at the backside.

Perfect fit at the front side.

And again made out of gorgeous ‘Chinese Blue’.

All pants, it looks like this:

The long green legs together with the short blue pants.

The long blue legs together with the short blue version.

Pattern: The third time in a row we use the Jacob pattern designed by Zonen09.

Fabric: The fluorescent piping was homemade from fluorescent trim (bought @ Vermiljoenshop).

KCW Winter 2014 - Jacob part 2

We finished the pants for Elias yesterday evening, and as soon as he saw the pants, he announced to be wearing short pants only!

It is true that Elias always leaves the house with short pants and Omar usually wears long ones, but I thought to be able to change this pattern by giving him his own long pants. I was wrong obviously!

Consequently we have a second pants for Omar (and we already started to cut and sew the short version Elias requested).

This time around the backside fits perfect without having to tighten the elastic excessively and there even is some room for growing.

The blue fabric was purchased in Shanghai, China (just like these gorgeous Chinese Blues). The fabric is supposedly hand dyed and had to be fixed before washing as the color runs. I was told that the fabric is about 50 years old. The sales lady –who looked double as old as the fabric- also explained me that it was made in her family business; but then my Chinese is quasi nihil so it is possible that I got that completely wrong!

The fabric smelled moist but after fixing and washing, she turned out to be really soft and so gorgeous!

I bought a full role but the role was not very long and on top of that only 45 cm wide. I will have to be make this fabric last a long way.

Pattern: Just like the pants posted yesterday this is a Jacob pants designed by Zonen09.

Fabric: The fluorescent piping was homemade from fluorescent trim (bought @ Vermiljoenshop) and some rope.