* 107 * ** lounge pants **

The ubiquitous 'lounge pants'.

Or my new pyjama pants, as they'll be known around here.

I've been thinking about making them for years.  I've had the book for ages.  I've had the fabric for months.  I've been admiring endless versions from all corners of blogland.

And finally:

 

I used Amy's instructions from her book In Stitches, but I cut the pieces from dismembered old faithful pyjama trousers that literally fell apart...

I even used my favourite variegated thread!

 

What I learned making them:

1) what an incredibly easy and quick project to do.  I cannot believe I've putting these off for so long.  Doh.

2) it pays reading the instructions and looking at the diagrams through to the end!!! and not 'as I go along'.  I only realised half way through the difference in 'depth' of the front and back pieces... this is obviously (now it is) to accommodate the difference relating to one's nether regions.   The proof is in the bottom. Tonight testing of the final product will reveal how crucial this mistake was.

3) Using elastic is easy.  I know that many of you told me it was easy... but some of you are the same ones that keep telling me that zips are easy... and zips ARE NOT easy.  Elastic is.  

 

4) More practice is required before attempting a decorative stitch on a thin slippery fabric in the future.

5) I'm totally in love with the smoothness of this superfine cotton lawn fabric I got at the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham... oh my... pjs should always be made of this!  Maybe now they will.

Comments

[kristina]

Oh yours are so beautiful (just like everything you do). They put my lowly pajama pants to shame. And what a super idea to use elastic. Though I still think elastic sounds scary--like zippers--eeek!

K x

[Gina]

This is a project I keep putting off - but now I feel inspired to have a go. Yours are particularly elegant looking in such a beautiful fabric.

[krista]

Those are so beautiful! What amazing fabric.

I learned that you really have to use a stabilizer when doing decorative stitches. Have I done it, no, but I know I'm supposed to. Next time, right?

[Jane]

Love this fabric. I must add these to my list of projects I'm putting off (why do we all do that? It almost always turns out that they take next to no time and aren't difficult). Zips really aren't scary, but a lot of commercial patterns make them look so.
By the way, did you get my email? I need details to send you the pink DB cotton yarn.

[Petit Filoux]

Love the fabric and the variegated thread!!

[ali]

Good thing you have a small derriere! They look wonderful.

[lina]

Pretty fabric. I have two pairs I've made from this pattern and I'd wear them all the time if I could. But then again, I'm a lazy so and so...

And I'm with you on the scary zip thing.

[liv]

These are great. I too have the pattern and the fabric, but this weekend I chickened out and made a children's version for my daughter as a test run. I now feel inspired to make the"real thing"
Well done. I will, however, now read the pattern from start to finish!
Livsxx

[Emma]

Cor lummy. They're totally covetable. I adore that fabric. Oof, what a treat to snuggle up in those.

[Tracy]

That fabric is very pretty, as is the thread. I too have been sewing pj pants, although nothing so glamorous as yours, and I like the idea that they could be dignified with a bit of re-branding.

[Laura]

Oh they're beautiful! Are they easy enough for a first adult size sewing project? PJ's....my favourite item of clothing :-)

[Megan]

That fabric is insanely beautiful.

[The Coffee Lady]

I am beyond envious. So pretty.