Pennant Pants with Sherpa Pockets
Today's Fanfare project is a pair of flannel pants that I made for Elliot. You didn't think I would just sew clothes for the girl, did you?
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One of the reasons I love Pinterest is that it gives me so many ideas for sewing for Elliot (you can see my "Elliot" board here). And I love seeing when someone else uses a pin for inspiration on a sewing project, so I'm going to show you the pin that inspired these pants, even though I'm a little embarrassed that these pants really didn't quite hit the mark. If you look at that link, you can maybe see that what I was going for here was something like sweatpants, with a knit waistband and cuffs. But the truly awesome thing is the sherpa pockets, which Elliot loves because they are so warm and cosy.
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Anyway, I keep studying these while he's wearing them because I feel like they're either a little too wide or a little too narrow (I used the Parsley Pants sewing pattern as a starting point, just cut off the waistband foldover at the top and tapered the legs). Or maybe a little too long, because when he wears them you can't really see the cuffs very well? But he's turning into a little stringbean, so I HAD to make them long because he's starting to grow out of all of the size 6 Parsley Pants I made him last spring already. Stop growing, little dude!
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So I'm not sure if I should keep tinkering with them or not, but at any rate E loves them and has already worn them three days in a row (including to school yesterday), so that's a win, right? But don't you think they would be even greater with a pair of SHERPA KNEEPADS??? Or is that completely insane to put white kneepads on a pair of boy's pants. I think I am answering my own question.*JAZZ HANDS*
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The fabric of course is Fanfare, my line of organic flannels for Cloud9 Fabrics, which is in fabric shops right now. I used the amazing Michael Miller Organic sherpa for the pockets and a grey rib knit for the cuffs and waistband.
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I've been hosting a Fanfare blog tour for the past week, so if you'd like to see all of those posts, you can click here. We've got just one more stop on the tour tomorrow, and then it will be back to the usual randomness around here after that!