Mx Amber Alex (she/it)
Mx Amber Alex (she/it)I really should have designed the pattern earlier, not just on the eve of the sewing, and sent it off for professional plotting. Would have shortened the process by, by the time I will be done, probably eight to ten hours.
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Mx Amber Alex (she/it)Paper pattern is cut out! At last⦠only took around eight hours. Fatigue is a jerk.
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Mx Amber Alex (she/it)Alright, I've settled on a design. It will have five panels: two back panels as usual, two very narrow side panels which mostly serve to provide a place for the pockets, and a wide, trapezoid single front panel, which will be buttoned to the sides.
Not entirely sure about the closure still; I might make one fake row of buttons and one working row, or just make the top 5-or-so of buttons of both rows functional to create a flap that opens to put it on. Could also just make all buttons functional (do I really want to make that many buttonholes?) so that I can button it however I want.
This way, I get my cake and eat it too: an aesthetically pleasing closure that doesn't require a fly or placket, it's symmetrical, and I can have all the pockets I want.
I designed the pattern in Inkscape and transferred the first two pattern pieces to paper and cut them out over the last six hours. Front, waistband, and pocket pieces left to go, and tomorrow I'll have to transfer the pattern to the fabric and cut it out.
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Mx Amber Alex (she/it)I really should have designed the pattern earlier, not just on the eve of the sewing, and sent it off for professional plotting. Would have shortened the process by, by the time I will be done, probably eight to ten hours.
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Mx Amber Alex (she/it)Okay, further thoughts on this:
it just occured to me I could just flip the design; have a centre rear seam (so no problems with the pockets) and put that wide panel and side closure at the front
that will make side pockets a bit iffy though (which is to say: impossible on one side)
unless I put the placket in the centre rear seam, which would be great for symmetry but idk a bit uninspired tbhβ¦
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Mx Amber Alex (she/it)Alright, I've settled on a design. It will have five panels: two back panels as usual, two very narrow side panels which mostly serve to provide a place for the pockets, and a wide, trapezoid single front panel, which will be buttoned to the sides.
Not entirely sure about the closure still; I might make one fake row of buttons and one working row, or just make the top 5-or-so of buttons of both rows functional to create a flap that opens to put it on. Could also just make all buttons functional (do I really want to make that many buttonholes?) so that I can button it however I want.
This way, I get my cake and eat it too: an aesthetically pleasing closure that doesn't require a fly or placket, it's symmetrical, and I can have all the pockets I want.
I designed the pattern in Inkscape and transferred the first two pattern pieces to paper and cut them out over the last six hours. Front, waistband, and pocket pieces left to go, and tomorrow I'll have to transfer the pattern to the fabric and cut it out.
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Mx Amber Alex (she/it)Idk, am I making any sense here?
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Mx Amber Alex (she/it)Okay, further thoughts on this:
it just occured to me I could just flip the design; have a centre rear seam (so no problems with the pockets) and put that wide panel and side closure at the front
that will make side pockets a bit iffy though (which is to say: impossible on one side)
unless I put the placket in the centre rear seam, which would be great for symmetry but idk a bit uninspired tbhβ¦
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Mx Amber Alex (she/it)Though I suppose, since I'll have to somehow finish the edges of a welted pocket's bag anyway, I may as well leave liberal seam allowance there and fell that down on itself, in the process encasing the interrupted-for-the-pocket french seamβ¦
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Mx Amber Alex (she/it)Idk, am I making any sense here?
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Mx Amber Alex (she/it)On the other hand, I could put a bastardised slanted pocket into the right back seam, button and buttonhole to close it, and just leave that as my rear pocket⦠it would probably look and drape terribly, though.
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Mx Amber Alex (she/it)Though I suppose, since I'll have to somehow finish the edges of a welted pocket's bag anyway, I may as well leave liberal seam allowance there and fell that down on itself, in the process encasing the interrupted-for-the-pocket french seamβ¦
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Mx Amber Alex (she/it)Not entirely sure how to put back pockets into that though. It'd have to go through both back seams and the placket would get in the way.
I could limit it to a right-hand back pocket, but that would still leave the issue of "neatly finished french seam" clashing with "trouser pocket goes right through seam". And I do want to stick with a construction that can remain unlined...
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Mx Amber Alex (she/it)On the other hand, I could put a bastardised slanted pocket into the right back seam, button and buttonhole to close it, and just leave that as my rear pocket⦠it would probably look and drape terribly, though.
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Mx Amber Alex (she/it)Hmmmβ¦ I'm thinkingβ¦
I got 150x170 of gray nondescript synthetic fabric here. I want to make a skirt out of it.
Initially, I was gonna go for the same four panel design as with my first skirt, hoping that the longer length (= more weight) and softer material (= less stiffness), plus my decision to make it unlined, would be sufficient to make it drape better than the last attempt, with no "lining distorts shape" issues.
However.
I was still undecided what closure to implement. Button and zipper flies are too complicated for my liking, a visible zipper isn't a look I'd be into, and visible buttons in the front would look a bit ass. Plus, I wanted to french seam as much as possible, and since I wanted slanted side pockets, a side closure was out of the question.
Now it occured to me: what if I make it out of five panels, with the fifth panel sitting in the back, and I put the closure on the left back seam? I could finish both edges of that seam separately, make them overlap, leave it open for the top ~8", and then put buttons there?
That might (that's the idea, at least) look less obtrusive than visible buttons at the front, and side button closures are, from what little I know of womenswear, not entirely uncommon for skirtsβ¦
(Plus, it opens an avenue for adding buttons in symmetrical positions on the right back and fronts later, for X-shape suspendersβ¦)
Thoughts?
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Mx Amber Alex (she/it)Not entirely sure how to put back pockets into that though. It'd have to go through both back seams and the placket would get in the way.
I could limit it to a right-hand back pocket, but that would still leave the issue of "neatly finished french seam" clashing with "trouser pocket goes right through seam". And I do want to stick with a construction that can remain unlined...
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Mx Amber Alex (she/it)Hmmmβ¦ I'm thinkingβ¦
I got 150x170 of gray nondescript synthetic fabric here. I want to make a skirt out of it.
Initially, I was gonna go for the same four panel design as with my first skirt, hoping that the longer length (= more weight) and softer material (= less stiffness), plus my decision to make it unlined, would be sufficient to make it drape better than the last attempt, with no "lining distorts shape" issues.
However.
I was still undecided what closure to implement. Button and zipper flies are too complicated for my liking, a visible zipper isn't a look I'd be into, and visible buttons in the front would look a bit ass. Plus, I wanted to french seam as much as possible, and since I wanted slanted side pockets, a side closure was out of the question.
Now it occured to me: what if I make it out of five panels, with the fifth panel sitting in the back, and I put the closure on the left back seam? I could finish both edges of that seam separately, make them overlap, leave it open for the top ~8", and then put buttons there?
That might (that's the idea, at least) look less obtrusive than visible buttons at the front, and side button closures are, from what little I know of womenswear, not entirely uncommon for skirtsβ¦
(Plus, it opens an avenue for adding buttons in symmetrical positions on the right back and fronts later, for X-shape suspendersβ¦)
Thoughts?
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