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Funnel-Neck Shirt, Unique Pants and A Cutting Marathon

My funnel-neck shirt did get completed. I raised the underarms--much better. Still a bit roomy; I might try just taking it in at the sides.

The Unique pants re-draft is a success! A few tweaks were needed--could easily be due to the fabric. My pants pattern tweak reference is Pants for Real People. A very helpful book. The pants pattern has tapered legs, so now that I've got it where it fits, I'm going to try altering it to a straight-leg pattern.

I have 2 Christmas stockings to make: 1 for our new son-in-law and 1 for our new grandson!

I got those 2 Christmas stockings cut out on Saturday. I had a pre-holiday cut-a-thon and I have ready to sew:
  • 2 Christmas Stockings
  • V-neck shirt from a black sweater knit using the funnel-neck shirt pattern with neckline variation.
  • 2 pairs of pants. I wanted some nice black material for my next pair of pants. I have plenty of my cheapy Wally-poly that I used for the test pair, but now that I know they'll fit, why not use some nice stuff? Well, because Jo-Jo's doesn't carry any 'nice stuff'. I wanted a washable blend, a high quality fabric with a nice drape. What I found was a lot of dry-clean-only wools of dubious quality. There's another store here in town to check out, but I ran out out time and the cutting table had to come down on Sunday, so I used the cheapy stuff. The 2nd pair was cut from a blue stretch twill from my stash.

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