Sorry, no pictures as I can't find my camera cable - I suspect that cleaning for a house showing is to blame. But really, what's to show on a hip pocket? And I actually just need to vent a bit. And you're here so here goes.
Back in January when Karen came to visit and we shopped and sewed I cut out a pair of BWOF slacks using some wool I'd just purchased at A Fabric Place, a lovely piece of carmel/brown with a nice finish. Not cheap (um, like I ususally use) but a good price for Michael. (have I mentioned how much I like shopping there? No? Well I should, someday.....) While Karen photographed and pattern snipped, I layed out my fabric and pattern and cut away. I assured Karen that I'd made these before (I had) and they fit (they do) and I was sooooooo confident. Slow forward a few weeks and started to work. Put in the front pleats and got ready for the pockets. And just couldn't make them work. No way, now how. Didn't remember having problems with this before. First, I assumed that I hadn't cut the front part of the pocket - often that piece is isn't separate so I just hauled out some lining fabric, layed out my pattern piece and cut. With my other fabric still attached to it. And, yes, cut off the front tag. From the fabric AND the pattern. For the love of pete, what was I thinking? Taped the cut piece back on the pattern and recut that piece. And still couldn't get it to work. Hauled out books and the magazine. And put it in time out while I fought with my serger's threading for a while. So, this morning I drug the pair I'd made before upstairs and vowed to get past this so I could have this nice pair of pants on Monday. And I twisted and pinned and ripped and scratched my head for a while. So what was the big freakin' deal with these pockets? Seriously?
And the answer is..... I HAD cut out the right piece - it was (oddly?) hiding in the bottom drawer of my desk with a couple of waist band pieces that I hadn't even missed yet. So I put that part together, nicely top stiched and pressed and moved on to the rest of the pocket and STILL COULDN"T MAKE IT WORK! The back pocket piece just didn't line up to make a nice side seam and the bottom curve wasnt' right. WTF? Just wrong. So I pulled back out the pattern piece - all taped back together and compared to the picture on the magazine. And ANOTHER "aha" moment as I recovered from shear dumb-assedness. I'd taped the cut off piece onto the wrong edge of the pocket. I'd already cut these pockets twice: once correctly but destroyed in the cut and again wrong with the miss-taped pattern piece. Did I have enough to correct this? Barely. I have about 6" of fabric left now. And 2 properly installed pockets. Whew! Now I can finish these this afternoon and have them ready for Monday.
Whew. What a stupid ordeal. And I still don't know how in the hell those pieces found their way into that drawer? HOW?!?
Oh, off to finish house cleaning and going to lunch while they show my house.
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BeeBee, I have had days like that in my sewing room. I usually rant so much, my husband has to remind me that I ENJOY sewing. I'm glad you got your pockets in. All's well that ends well.
ReplyDeleteHave we all had days like that? I thought I was the only one! I'm glad you worked it out.
ReplyDeleteGlad it finally all came together, I was afraid I was going to get to the end and find you tossed it all in the trash! Hopefully by now they are politely hanging in the closet :) K
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