#mndawn

[bmwiid]

My jeans are finished!!!

I'm very happy but I'm pure shit at pictures so I'll try and get Bo to take some nice ones.

[bmwiid]

I finished the Mock Up!

OMG I can sew so fast and so good! I'm the best at sewing. I'm a sewing GOD.

Anyway, in other news, I finished the mock up for the Dawn Jeans (I'm not adding the waistband on the testing pair because I feel very confident in that) so... here are the pictures:

I do have to make a small adjustment to the back - as seen in the butt image - about a half inch on each side of the yoke to compensate for my slight sway back. The Tapered Leg won - it's the one on the LEFT of the images, but right leg IRL - its a lot more flattering for me.

It ATE thread for top-stitching, and that is going to take the most time on the actual real pair because you need to swap out threads a lot on this pattern - half the steps are "then swap to normal thread" ever other line.

However, this pattern was described as 3/5 for difficulty and I didn't have any issue, at ANY point with these. In fact, I'd honestly say I FLEW through this pattern. Not including time taken to trace the pattern, and cut it out, the actual MAKING of these took like... 4 hours yesterday and 2 hours today. 6 hours to make a pair of jeans. That fit me perfectly. That look nice! That I WILL ACTUALLY WANT TO WEAR!!!!

I'm feeling sooooooo good about myself right now. Not even my soft chubby belly on the internet is bringing me down. I made a fucking pair of jeans, baby!

[bmwiid]

I'm starting to make these Dawn Jeans by Megan Nielsen

Now I'm doing a mock up this time because:

Denim is expensive and I don't want to fuck it up.

I don't know what style this girl is wearing - is it a cuffed straight leg or a cuffed tapered leg? They don't bloody tell you on the pattern.

So what I'm doing is making one of each - one leg will be straight and one will be tapered. I can also make any changes to the mock up and then transfer it to the denim, saving myself time and tears. Theoretically.

I have a couple of fabrics that would be really nice if these work out for me - and I really hope they do - and I'll keep you updated.