Closet Core Sepia Pants

Hello and happy almost end of the school year!!! There’s two days left and the it’s SUMMERTIME!!! I’m just a little bit excited. I have so many plans for sewing and gardening and just plain old recovering from what felt like a long, tough year.

Anyways, enough rambling. I popped on here to show off my new pants! I’ve been on a pants making kick since making my linen Peppermint Wide Leg Pants for #sewfrugal in the spring I’m wearing them lots by the way since the weather turned warm and I quite like them! I did end up running some elastic through the waist because they were a touch too big.

For one of my recent Minerva Ambassador projects I had chosen a really nice mid weight cotton twill. In the time I took waffling over whether I should make the Closet Core Pietra Pants or the Papercut Palisade Pants the May pattern for Closet Core Crew (which I subscribe to) came out. The minute I laid eyes on the Sepia Pants I immediately abandoned all other plans and knew they were the pants I wanted to make with my twill. (You can read my entire post about my project on the Minerva site) 

I absolutely love this pattern! The shape is loose but not sloppily so, and there’s darts at the ankles to bring the fullness in a bit. There’s also a dart at the knee which is a fun detail. The best though is the pockets. The front slanted patch pockets are double layered! It’s such a unique look! And they were so much fun to sew. Ireally took my time making them and thoroughly enjoyed the process!

As soon as I made them I knew I wanted another pair. I really wanted to try the pattern in a lighter fabric so one day after a doctor appointment in the city I popped into  Fabricland and it was my lucky day! Not only had my doctor appointment gone much better than expected but Fabricland had a 55% off sale and I snagged a great lightweight linen/cotton blend for an amazing deal! 

This second pair is every bit as good as my first pair which just goes to show it works well in completely different fabrics! The linen ones are perfect for hot muggy days (like today!) 

These pants really do fit all my favourite summertime pants criteria. Loose fitting, elasticated waist and cropped. Win, win and win!! 

Next week I’ll be back to show you yet another pair of summertime pants I’ve made. I just need to wait for the pattern I used to be released (yes, I was pattern testing again!), although if you’re on Instagram or Minerva and follow me you may have seen a sneak peek. 

Until then I hope you have a great rest of the week and a fantastic start to the summer!

Santorini Tank

Well hello all you lovely people in the “Internet Lands”!  Here I am swanning back in to do a drive by post like I haven’t been gone for a month and a half.  I’ve had good reason though.  I’ve been busy! In fact we just had another family wedding this past weekend.  I’ll have to tell you about that another day because I need to sort through the photos and I want to tell you about the dress I made. Today I’m actually popping in to show you a new top that I made when I tested the pattern for Itch to Stitch* recently.

This is the Santorini Tank. It’s a woven top with princess seams and a cute button placket down the left side of the top.  The pattern comes in the standard Itch to Stitch size and cup range. The only changes to the pattern that I made was to add some length to the upper half of the bodice as I normally do with all Itch to Stitch patterns and instead of doing buttonholes I simply sewed the buttons down through both plackets as non-functional buttons. I did test out first if I’d be able to get in and out of it without opening it and because I could and I knew I would struggle to fasten buttons along my side I opted to do the non functional placket. I’m quite happy with how it all worked out!

I made mine from left over linen/viscose fabric from my birthday dress that I made for my 50th almost two years ago. I was really excited because the pattern gave me an opportunity to use up every last little scrap of this fabric that I loved so much! I did have to piece one facing using some left over navy linen from my Brampton shorts but you can’t tell. I did the centre of the facing navy and the rest in the print.

The Santorini Tank has just been released and as usual it is on sale with a bit of a discount for the release week on the Itch to Stitch site.

Now I’m off again, but hopefully I’ll be swanning back in sooner rather than later. (Can you believe I even had a half done post sitting in my file from midway through Me Made May that I never finished? Guess that ship has sailed. Lol!)