Hello, hello! I'm here today to talk about my FAVOURITE pants. Now, if you follow me on Instagram at all, this will be absolutely no surprise because they have shown up over and over again as part of my Me Made May outfits this year. I wore them on the first day and I wore them today on the last day and I wore them multiple times in between.
I'm talking, of course, about the True Bias Lander Pants. Several summers ago I made a pair of Lander Shorts to try out the pattern for the 2018 Outfit Along and see if they lived up to all the "Lander Pant Love" hype. Reading back on that post I was surprised to see that I'd not been very happy with them at first. I'd completely forgotten all my trials and tribulations in sewing them up. All I knew was that as far as I've been concerned over the time since making them, they most definitely were worthy of "Lander Pant Love" because I've worn those shorts every summer since - they are literally my favourite pair of shorts. After wearing the shorts so much the first summer, it was always my intention to make a pair of cropped Landers. It's the same old story of procrastination though and those cropped pants took me almost three years to actually sit down and make. I really think in the interest of not wearing the same pair of shorts or pants day in and day out this summer, I should really get going on making another pair of each.
I did have to tweak the fit of the Lander Pants this time around again just a smidge. I took a bit of a wedge out of the centre back at the waist, then I took in the side seams a bit more than last time, but my biggest change and it's a definite game changer in the fit, is that I went ahead and altered the waistband from a straight to a curved one. I LOVE the fit of them now!
I did have some adventures in cutting out my waistband. Don't forget my pattern has been sitting around for three years now. I guess glue stick glue doesn't last forever maybe? Long story short, part of my waistband pattern piece went missing (unbeknown to me) so I drafted my curved waist band according to what I thought was my original waistband. Spoiler alert: It did not fit. Of course it did not fit! I was missing a good chunk of length from it. Agggghhhhhhhhh. I ended up piecing it together on the outer layer strategically underneath where the front belt loops sit so no one is the wiser. (Well obviously you all know now, but you can keep a secret right?) I did the facing with diagonal seams to piece it together a little more discreetly, although now that I think about it, it's really not like anyone is going to be seeing the facing of my pant's waistband. Huh. Could have saved myself some time if I'd thought of that fact earlier and not been so stressed about disguising my pieced together fabric! Ha ha!
All's well that ends well though and I really love wearing these cropped denim Landers. They are the comfiest pair of pants I own and as you can see from the photos I've shared here from Me Made May, I reach for them time and time again.
Now I just need to figure out what fabric to make my next pair out of. I have some green twill that I'm hoping I have enough of for a pair of shorts, and I've got some light blue denim I could make another pair of cropped pants, but maybe I should do a twill of a different colour? Or maybe a heavier linen? (I wonder if that would work. Hmmmm.) In the meantime, while I'm pondering my fabric choices, I guess I'll just have to keep washing and wearing these ones on constant rotation!
