Corduroy Jeans Day 1

Today I started on my first pair of pants. The pattern I am working with is McCall's 5894 and I am doing view B, which has a slightly flared leg. I did several things today that I have never done before because I am normally a I-want-to-get-to-the-fun-part-of-sewing kind of girl. I ironed my fabric, cut out all of the pieces (This is the part I hate about sewing) in tissue, and ironed my tissue. One thing that I noticed that this McCall's pattern has that none of my Simplicity have so far is that McCall's has a sort of plasticy layer that makes the tissue tear less easy and they don't just give you whole squares of paper with lots and lots of pattern pieces on each square. There were 6 sections of tissue, each containing only a few pieces. Whether they do this for their own benefit or that of the sewer, I do not know but I appreciate it. I hate working with huge sections of tissue paper. They are generally too big to lay flat on my table so they get all tangled and torn and uggh.

I also did my first tissue try-on ever, enlightening! I chose the pattern size based on the end result for this patter as they didn't list the measurements with the pattern sizes like Simplicity does. Well, the waist was too high, no surprise there as I am rather petite, and the thighs too thin. I have shortened the top at the waist by about 1". I am going to add a slight curve to the thigh to account for my naturally inherited, I've always had them I swear, thunder thighs. I am did this by using the large tailoring ruler that I have and going from the original size I picked at the waist and making a gradual curve to the next size up on the patter using the long edge. Then, lower in the thigh, where my legs begin to taper again, I will curve back to the original size. hopefully this curve is gradual enough no hug my thighs not add to them. I did this on both the front and back so that the jeans fit the curve of my legs. I will definitely be doing a basted try-on to make sure this comes out right.

Side Note: By the way I went all over creation looking for tailoring rulers over the last year and guess where I found them of all places, Staples! I never would have guessed but apparently that is the place to get them.