More Snake-Print Success. Day 26.

The afternoon at the sewing lab was a total bust. Every single machine had a sewer, so, sadly, I turned around and went home for the afternoon. I decided to spend some time getting to knew my serger a little better. I am bad. I only use it to finish edges that I have already stitched with the Bernina. Why? Because I always wind up making mistakes and having to rip out seams. Not so easy to rip out seams on knits though.

Putting down my knitting, I picked up the black stretch knit that I picked up in San Francisco on wool journey on Tuesday. I drafted a pattern for leggings, as for this look I need to make a brown pair:



The black pair that I made required a few adjustments in the pattern. Then I made the brown pair (as in the picture above).

Then I made these:



Now, I haven't done the hems, because I need to acquire a blind hemmer foot for the serger, and I have no idea how to do it. So my brown and snake-print leggings aren't quite done, but close. And, so far they have been 100% successful! Granted, knit is stretchy, and the snake-print isn't as stretchy as it needed to be, so my ass-crack may show when I sit in those leggings, but 1. They're leggings so the top/waist will often be covered with something and 2. They're snake-print, so isn't ass-crack more rocker? Ok, maybe not, so we'll just go with #1.

Do you know what this means??? This is the FIRST project where I haven't had to rip out a seam!!! Yes, it is an extremely simple project, but you have to start somewhere, right?

I'd also like to note that this time, for all you whiners out there, I smiled in the hallway picture. I would also like to apologize for recycling a pair of shoes in a hallway picture so early. The brass-square-toe McQueens just absolutely amazing shoes. I'll spice it up with something new next time.