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Welcome to my blog. I mainly post about my sewing projects, as Iā€™m building a colourful and comfortable everyday wardrobe suitable for a working mum of primary school children. I really love African wax fabric, so that features heavily. I also occassionally post about family life in Edinburgh and travel. Hope you have a nice stay!

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Style Arc Bob trousers

Style Arc Bob trousers

I made another pair of trousers! This one is going to be written up for the Minerva blog in exchange for the fabric, so I won't do a full post, but I thought I'd quickly record the main pieces of information so I don't forget them.

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Pattern: Bob trousers by Style Arc

Size: 16

Fabric: Robert Kaufman cotton Twill in the mustard colour way, gifted by Minerva in exchange for a blog post. I initially planned on making a jacket with this, but it was lighter and browner than I expected, so switched to these trousers.

Instructions: are minimal, on a level with Burda, but visual, which I like better than the Burda instructions. 

The waistband instructions were a bit weird though, it has you sewing the elastic to the waistband casing before you attach it to the trousers, which seems like a recipe for disaster. I followed the instructions for the Arenites instead, including top stitching the elastic to the casing giving a shirred effect I probably won't do that next time though.  

Adjustments: I shortened the legs by three inches, and did an inch full seat adjustment (my first time for this, I don't know why I put it off for so long). I think it needs slightly more on the bum for next time, but its definitely an improvement on the Arenites.

Would make again?: Definitely. Delighted with these and almost finished my second pair.

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Style Arc bob trousers in grey linen

Style Arc bob trousers in grey linen

Another pieced wiksten shift top

Another pieced wiksten shift top