My younger daughter, CY, doesn't like wearing skirts at all. And I'm not at all good at sewing any garment that is not a rectangle with an elastic band (which is what a skirt is to me). So it really is a challenge for me to make something for CY to wear to her mermaid/pirate party at kindergarten.
So I practised with making some board shorts for my husband. It's summer and he could do with a few new ones. My mum sent me her paper pattern and she really is a true to the word 'recyclist', if there's such a word. And she's always been using newspaper for drafting paper patterns.
The shorts are not quite difficult to make and I sewed 3 pairs in a row!
For her mermaid/pirate party, CY would like to be a pirate, like the previous time.
So I sewed her a pair of shorts, bought a cool pirate T-shirt to match but I had to remember the wrong date :( for the party. So while everyone is looking very cool as pirates and pretty as mermaid, she was in her uniform. Poor kid. Anyway, she still wore it the next day.
The pattern is from a Japanese kid sewing book that Erin gave me which has really some nice patterns that I've posted before in this post. Feeling encouraged, I ventured to make a pair of real pants out of that book. Not being able to read Japanese, I think I missed something really important. The pattern must have called for fabric with stretch as the finished pants couldn't go over CY's hips! Not wanting to give up, I made some big time fudging.








































