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| The author, trying desperately not to get speared like a fish. I'm the littler one in brown and blue. |
I decided it was time and past time to have some real fighting garb.
Also I wore through my garage sale linen pants. So I got a few yards of cheap cotton (and I
tried to avoid the primary colors thing, but the greens and purples were just too obviously modern for me) and set to making poofy pants, based on a variety of SCA Viking and Turkish patterns.
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| Pictured: Future pants. And a caftan. |
Unfortunately
I didn’t take any construction photos, but I need to make another pair,
so I’ll try to remember next time. From four yards of 44-inch fabric, I
tore two 1.5-yard panels for legs (using the width of the fabric for
length) and cut a 5x12-inch (or so) diamond for a gusset. The cuffs are
6x12-inch pieces doubled over and edges finished before being attached.
I
sewed the gusset to the legs first, then continued down the inseams and
up the front and back center seams. After felling those seams, I folded
over the top three or four inches and stitched that down for a
drawstring casing, leaving the front seam open so I could insert the
drawstring later (learned that lesson the hard way). I attached the
cuffs by pinning the legs into them at each quarter, and halving the
distance between pins until I had nice even box pleats all the way
around.
They’re
huge on 5-foot-3-inch me, and I love them.
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| Bonus action shot, in which I'm fairly confident I'm about to be murdered. |
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