I brought a pair of skirt dungarees this summer and I still haven’t taken them off (to be fair I did wash them a couple of times), but they are sooo comfy! You can wear them with thick tights, woolly and boots in the winter or with just a tank top in the summer.
So I decided to make my own!
The pattern is Cleo by Tilly and the Buttons, the material is stretchy jeans from Les Coupons de Saint Pierre and I used a contrasting orange thread.
So, the main takeaways from this project are:
1. When sewing during lock-down make always sure you have LOTS of the right colour thread! The most frustrating thing is to get to three-quarters of the way and discover you have no orange left and a lot of outside seams to do. – I then discovered most material shops were open (probably to let craftspeople work) and since I literally live on top of the biggest sewing district in the world I masked up and dashed to get some rust-orange thread at the deserted Marché de Saint Pierre.
2. Stretchy jeans material is damn thick to cut! Not the best exercise the day after doing push-ups.
3. For the needle choice it was an Amletic decision between stretchiness (does that word exist?) and thickness. Since the only stretchy thing I ever attempted to sew ended up in a ball at the bottom of my pile and left me in tears, fear of stretch won. I used a ballpoint needle 90/14 (gold coloured) and set the stitches length to 3.5. There is a video I found interesting on how to make sure you don’t rip the treads of stretchy denim in the Brother blog , very useful!
It wasn’t a very difficult project in all, but I am really proud of my straight lines and finishing!
Voilà
Crafty Poulette 