New Pants, old tricks.

Oh My!  I feel so great about being in September.  I zenned into cleaning this morning after dropping Sam off at a friend's for a little while.  We had a house full this weekend, culminating in a surprise visit from Paul's best friend and his girlfriend (who have just relocated from MI to Pullman, WA-- anybody have any suggestions for them?).  This visit made me happy in so many ways, particularly knowing that we both have people in our lives who've known us for a really long time and still want to be our friends.  It strikes me as rare-- especially in men. 

So yes, this zenning into cleaning is good and very necessary.  As was the few hours I spent puttering around my sewing room/spare bedroom last night.  Paul played "talk like Big Bird and engage little plastic people" and I wrote emails, listened to music, and did a tiny bit of sewing.  I pulled out all my cool weather fabric and set to making Sam some pants-- or what I'll call "ripping a page straight from Amy's book".  I didn't mean to twin with Sadie but there you have it. 

I found just enough dark brown wide wale corduroy left over from another project.  The pockets are made from fabric ordered from Superbuzzy (you'll probably see a lot of it floating around as I painstakingly dole it out over lots of projects).  I hemmed the legs with My New Favourite Thing, twill tape.  Makes a nice cuff as I'm sure they'll be a little long on him.  This is the first in what will hopefully be a long love affair with making pockets.  I have avoided them for so long that I had forgotten why I left them out in the first place.  They're easier than they look and there are so many great possibilities.  Vive le Pocket! 

I've been thinking about quality and about why I "make" rather than buy, and while there are the obvious reasons, I still struggle with the amount I consume rather than reuse or just plain "use up".  So I'm going to try to be more mindful of that.  As for the issue of quality, I want to gently push myself to make every project special in some way-- even if it's just figuring out pockets or cleaning up my seams, I want to learn how to do new things and perfect the old.  Make it good and make it right.