Extravagantly Baggy Pirate Pants
So I'd acquired some solid, hard-wearing, stripy cotton for a reasonable sum. I thought I'd make myself some Pirate Pants. Can you honestly say that you have never had this desire? I used a pattern from The Renaissance Tailor (a seriously nice website) for One-Cut Pants.
As this particular pattern uses artful folding and one big slice to make trousers out of the whole two metres (or 2 x 1.5 = 3m2), when the pieces were all connected but the outer seams not sewn up, it covered an entire bedroom floor:
One problem I had was cutting the ankles a bit wide. As I didn't want to resew the outer seams to taper the ankles, or gather them in like the waistband, I ended up doing a series of pleats, which I think looks interesting. Even so, I might have to sew a couple more - the ankles are still a bit wide:
Finally, BEHOLD MY GENIUS!!!
As this particular pattern uses artful folding and one big slice to make trousers out of the whole two metres (or 2 x 1.5 = 3m2), when the pieces were all connected but the outer seams not sewn up, it covered an entire bedroom floor:
One problem I had was cutting the ankles a bit wide. As I didn't want to resew the outer seams to taper the ankles, or gather them in like the waistband, I ended up doing a series of pleats, which I think looks interesting. Even so, I might have to sew a couple more - the ankles are still a bit wide:
Finally, BEHOLD MY GENIUS!!!
posted by theamazingcatherine | 6:16 pm
7 Comments:
All hail the feline genius that is cats... no, sorry, all hail the creative genius that is Cat's!
Seriously - tres cool. I like them muchly.
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Oooooh they're so PIRATEY!!
Now those are the pants of a pirate captain you'd be afraid of mutinying against!
[Er. What's the correct England for 'mutinying'?]
Ahem. I think they're great.
They are a truly fine pair of pirate pants. Have you tried fitting your flatmates in them? At the same time?
'mutinying' - well, it is standard to make a present participle by taking an 'ing' on the end. I think any changes in spelling for the stem will only happen if it gets used a lot and people start making mistakes in creative ways. So you're probably correct. At least for now.
The present participle seems correct to me, but more appropriate might be: "to mutiny against"
Hmm. Would an acceptable form of "commit treason" be "to trease"?
My Lit History teachers would love you. Do you still have the text of that poem explaining kennings? One of them gave us a brief lecture on Old English poetry and then spoke very movingly about how cool kennings were and how we should all use them in our own writing. I think that she'd like it.
That would be:
"Grendel's Dog, from Beocat">
http://bertc.com/beocat.htm
It's been around a while, though, so she may well have encountered it before.
"I totally treased that guy!"
No, there was one that you wrote about people who wrote in iambic pentameter being limp wristed nancy boys.
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