Lesson Learned

Oh my, lol, did I goof last week!

When I made Alex's sleep pants Heather called and said they were huge. Then she said she washed the material and the fit perfect.

So I proceeded to make him a pair of pants from some blue twill I bought the week before. I made patch pockets to put on the outside of the lower leg. I made an elastic waist. I messed up and cut the pants too short so I made them different, added some material to the bottom like some of his store bought pants.

He tried them on. THEY WERE HUGE!!!!

ROFLMAO!! I forgot we washed the material first this time! So the pants are in the box for NEXT year!

I bought enough to make about 4 pair for him and a couple for Danny so no shortage of material. Next time I will take each section in 1/2" and shorten the waist 2" and hem them up another 1". I still want to make the legs like I did those by accident! And I think I will make the pocket bigger. I used the measurements from one of Danny's pairs so they really could be bigger for Alex.

Live and learn. Ok..sew and make mistakes! Will happen all my life...at least this one wasn't a failure! Just a start on NEXT winter's clothes lol....

I really liked how they turned out though!!

Ramblings

I haven't really written much this month I know.

Been an up and down month!

Went on vacation (ok, camping right outside of town) but still have the boys routine to follow. Started Camping on the 1st. Then on the 6th we got notice that we had to get rid of the bee hives! I filed an appeal for a hearing on the 16th but not heard yet when. I have to get rid of the bees by the 27th so the better hurry up! If I don't hear from them by the time the mail goes on Friday I will be at city hall demanding an extension.

Heather is looking into getting a mortgage for an acreage now. She is really ticked. So we may be moving in the spring. We are all just tired of all the ordinances. We can get mauled by a pitbull now but we need protection from the little bees.We'll see what happens.

Pajama Pants

Was on vacation. I WAS going to sew doll Halloween dresses.

But I decided the boys needed their pajama pants worse. 

Heather had bought two pairs of each, Mario and Angry Birds, sleep pants in men’s size small. She got them on clearance for $3 each. I thought I could make a pair for the boys one out of each. Nope, didn’t work that way. The men’s had the plackets in front for laziness, so after cutting them out the pattern didn’t fit those sections. 

So Danny got Mario, Alex got Angry Birds, and NaNa got tired of sewing for the day lol…

Actually I only sewed for about 3 hrs a day while Danny was in school. I made the patterns from sleep pants that still fit the boys. So one pattern made for each boy. Grrr… I hate making patterns lol. But I can use the patterns to make them more now. It had been a long time since I had made a pattern off bought clothes. I had bought a new mat to try this time. I loved how I could pin everything to the cardboard! It really made it faster and easier.

It usually took about two days for each pattern and two days for each pair of pants. Cause I had other things to do in those three hours also lol…

For $6 they each have a new pair of jamma pants they love!