New pants

I love the idea of wearing skirts. But if I'm walking around and generally taking part in daily life I don't find skirts entirely all that practical. Instead I wear jeans. Even in the middle of summer. I have one pair of black capri pants. Although I'll spend a whack of money on jeans that I can wear year-round, it seems as though I'll only buy capri pants when they are heavily discounted. I've tried sewing pants in the past, but it turns out they are a lot of work and they never seem to fit as well as my favourite jeans. So, really, what's the point of bothering to make something you'll never wear because you prefer the store-bought stuff?

Recently I found a pattern for Thai Fisherman Pants. The pattern is foolishly simple. There are a mere three pieces. I didn't entirely understand how the pieces were going to look when assembled, so I made them exactly the size the instructions said. I could have easily made them bigger, but they're really not too bad. I opted to go with two different fabrics only because of the limit of my stash of fabric. The top piece of fabric gets folded over and needs to look good on both sides (I briefly thought about lining the top panel, but I decided it would be better to make the pattern at least once before trying to modify it).

I really shouldn't wear them for another other than slumming around my own house, but I'm pretty pleased with them. One leg is rolled up because I was still thinking about capris at that point. In addition to the pattern you can see instructions on how to do up the pants over at Flickr.