Random Encounter

  Ugh, it's been a hot minute. Forgive me. It's Spring around here. Which means no end of yearly house chores, garden clean-up, etc. Anyway, what was I working on? Oh, wait, yes! THE PANTS.    Any vest worth its salt has tails. Everyone knows this.   Not a half bad for a first attempt with this pattern! But how did we get here? If memory serves, we left off with the front pockets assembled...   So next comes the back pockets. These have reinforced tops so you don't see as much of the wrong side of the fabric. But anyway, overlock stitch the bottom of the reinforcement. Put right sides together, straight stitch, and trim edges. Flip it inside out and stitch along the top with the twin needle. Fold and press the edges. Then use the pattern to place the back pockets and twin needle them into place.      (It looks vaguely like an autobot symbol. I know.) Nice thing about back pocket top stitching is that no one is going to notice if you messed it...

Finally. Six posts in and the sewing blog actually does some sewing.  Where did I leave off? Oh, right. Continuing on with M8473.  Corduroy is a pain to cut out. See, normally patterns do this super-helpful thing where they show you a pattern layout on 45" and 60" bolts. Blesséd be the layout.  But corduroy has wales and to insure those wales stay parallel means cutting everything out piece by piece. That's cool. Totally wasn't planning on doing anything else tonight. Or the night after. Swear to you this is the same fabric from the same bolt.  And then there's this whole other thing.   Know I said I would cut with the nap going up, but with fabric in hand I think the other way is the way to go. But you can clearly see that, can't you? With the nap running down the color is noticeably richer. Just glad I noticed this BEFORE cutting pieces out.  So, one eternity later, we have our cut corduroy. It's often recommended to finish the edges on corduroy, bu...