My Creative Space

People that know me know that I don't do jeans.  What!!! I hear you gasp... you don't wear what most people practically live in?  Nope, never have, but.... maybe will.  You see the problem is, I like my clothes to fit and be comfortable.  Nothing wrong in that per se, but you see jeans just don't fit the criteria.  They have been found to fit where they touch, to gape at the waist, to cut one in half when sitting, and with the trend for low waistlines, well the problem is exacerbated manyfold.  The solution is, therefore, to make my own.  But then I still can't be sure that when I make them myself that they'll be any better than something off the peg.  My dressmaking skills are something not to be desired! At least for anything I make myself. Kiddies, no problem. Me, nah!

So what to do?  Well as luck would have it, on a wander through Perth city centre en route from going to see the Queen (think CHOGM here) to Myer I came across Fabulous Fabrics on Murray Street that I just had to wander into, just for a looksee.  There, next to the door was a copy of the latest Vogue catalogue and in it was this:

image courtesy of the Marcy Tilton Website

Now I've followed Marcy Tilton's blog for a while and have one of her tops patterns that is still to be made (more on that in another post) and hadn't seen this pattern before... actually what I'd not noticed on the web picture, that the catalogue made abundantly clear, was that the dark longer trousers are made in denim.  Click! A very comfortable, loose fitting, but well fitted, pair of jeans - or denim trousers? - is within my grasp as the pattern is now mine!!

I have to confess that now I'm stuck for the denim - I have some but it's very heavy, and not good for the upcoming summer.. so if anyone is in the know about where to get a medium to light weight denim in Western Australia at a reasonable price (ie. not $28 a meter as is a lot of fabric) do drop me a comment.... otherwise it's back to ebay.co.uk.

I have, however, started on a toile.  This is, as I gather, the correct way to try a pattern.  Not to start out in the final fabric, mess it up, throw it in a corner and sulk for the next three months!  So the pattern has been duly traced onto some newsprint paper and cut out, pinned to check fit, unpinned and afixed to some old duvet fabric... and cut out.  That is where I am up to.  But keep a watch on next week's Creative Space and I might just have progressed some.  In fact that is what will spur me on... I WILL have progress some, or a lot!!

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Marcy Tilton's Vogue V8499 traced onto paper

I know it doesn't look like it
but this is the pattern pinned for fitting