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Tuesday, July 29th, 2014

This is a first for me. Trousers! I’ve done skirts, tops, dresses, pinnies, pyjama bottoms, a hooded cape, vests, t-shirts, sweatshirts – but no trousers. Why? Who knows? Maybe I’m a little fearful about doing the fly – scary stuff? But then I saw this pattern by Named and called Alpi for a pair of chinos and I thought ‘now is the time’ – I luurve chinos.

Chino pattern

So here we are then. It’s all cut out and the side and back pockets are in situ. I’m making the chinos from cotton drill with a lovely blue Liberty print for the side pocket bags, with a touch of it on the back pockets too. I’d bought this to make a tie then didn’t use it so thought a bit of colour on the plain cotton would look fab – and it does. Don’t be afraid to add a dash of colour or a bit of texture to otherwise plain fabrics. A bit here and there really lifts the garment and it looks snazzy too.

Chinos

So far it’s going OK but if you decide to have a go at these remember this one thing. The pattern doesn’t have a seam allowance included – they say to draw an allowance of 1cm round all of the pieces. Which personally I found a bit of a pain. I’m just so glad I read the instructions first otherwise the whole thing would have been a write off. Also, the pattern pieces are overlaid on the paper, so you have no option but to trace parts of it to be able to cut out the whole thing. Now this isn’t such an issue really, but it is slightly annoying when you buy a paper pattern and still have to trace. But hey ho, these are going to look marvellous. Check back later for a peek at the finished result.

Chinos 2

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