The Damn Pants

August/September 2021: Perfect Pants class at the Textile Center from Kathleen R. We do our measurements, adjust the patterns, make our muslins. Adjustments from the muslins and new patterns. Then class is over and everyone goes home. I make the next version and it still isn't "perfect" or how I like to wear pants. I make the 2nd version with some green linen that has been in my closet for 20 years.

Hmmm. Ugh. 

March 2022: I email Kathleen R. Does she do pattern-adjustment consultations? I promise I won't be needy or whiney. Yes! She comes to my house, figures out adjustments and then makes me cut out a new muslin and sew it up again!! Right then!!! Of course I did and my muslin was more of the green linen. It was mostly okay and then she made a few more tweaks and said to take it all apart, re-cut out the fronts and sew them up again. 

I do that and finally finish that version today (April 2022) and added a waistband so I could actually wear them. I think they are almost ready to be real. Once I get these damn pants figured out I'll never buy pants again. I can make gardening pants, hiking pants, house pants, and fancy pants. For now, all these linen try-outs (the muslins) will be my greenhouse work pants. 

Also, if I wasn't so fat in the middle this would all be so much easier. But I am and I'll deal with it and not be all "I need to diet!" boo hoo. I'm grateful the fat is evenly distributed and I don't have the side saddlebag fat pouches. 

Kathleen R was a heck of a good time. I enjoyed our time together in my house and wasn't as freaked out by having her in my small S Mpls house when she told me she had a small N Mpls house. She has a fascinating life story about how she got to here from there and all the stops in-between. I learned a lot.