So, my best friend and I clubbed up together this weekend and decided to keep each other working by supplying good company, good music* and someone to commiserate with, go for lunch-walks with and watch movies with in the evenings. She is studying Law and has exams looming, so was revising with papers, cases, coloured pens and a dictionary; I was tackling the fly, pockets and side seams on the trousers and the pockets on the waistcoat, pacing back and forth between the sewing machine and the ironing board.
I admit I had to make two of the pieces over a couple of times as I made certain mistakes – putting them together upside-down or back-to-front, sewing up and clipping the wrong side. But I sat my head straight eventually and it all came together.
Sewing up the side seams I was quite pleased with: It required matching the checks down the very visible outside length of the leg** and stitching right up to, but not over, the opening edge of the pocket. This is so that, while the pocket is not being used, it should be invisible; only when the gentleman puts his hand in his pocket would its existence become obvious, melting out of the side-seam like a secret entrance, only evident at certain moments.
And mine came out Just Right.
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*We both listen to a variety of music and, with both of us chipping in with suggestions we covered quite a bit of ground; from Wicked to Avatar, Katherine Jenkins and Michael Ball to Avril Lavigne and Nightwish, country and western to modern worship.
**When you are 6’4” there is quite a bit of leg-check matching to go on^!
^and it is very noticeable when you get it wrong...
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