Same pattern as the t-shirt from a couple weeks ago, but this time I made the capri pants. I used a butterfly camo twill for these, I think if I make them again I’ll go with something a little lighter. I wonder how they would be in seersucker. I didn’t put the drawstring in them because they just felt too stiff and I didn’t think it would play well. I’m just going to hem the bottoms. They call for elastic in the bottom, but they just seem too stiff for that to work well with this material.
These are a size 6. I’d never done pockets like this before and was nervous about it. As it happens, things actually do go quite well with sufficient pressing and reading the directions can sometimes be quite helpful. I took the hem up 3″ from where they were marked for capris and blindstitched them there, hoping to either have enough length to let them down completely to work as pants in the fall or adjust as needed for capri length next year if Zoe can still wear them in the waist.
This one has been sitting in my UFO pile since the embroidery on the front piece was done. I’m still learning how to play nice with my embroidery machine, and when I finally got this done, I didn’t have time to put together the rest of the pieces.
It took quite a few tries to get the Snoopy embroidery on there right. It was bunching the fabric and just generally making quite a mess. I ended up getting some Super Solvy heavy water soluble stabilizer (wss) for the top and put two layers of tearaway on the bottom. I’m not terribly excited about using the wss again; washing it off was a rather gooey ordeal.
This morning I cut the rest of the pieces for the shirt and threw it together. I also put some fusi-knit on the back of the embroidery. In case anyone was wondering, if the fusi-knit is wrong side up, it does fuse very nicely to your pressing cloth. This shirt is a size 6. The fabric is a purple cotton fine baby rib knit. The lettuce edging will tighten up when it goes through the wash, making smaller curls. Zoe would have lettuce edging on all her tops and dresses if she could. I love it because it’s a super fast finish and very girly.
And here it is on Zoe –
