In High Gear

Quiet Thanksgiving. I slept in, waking to the smell of rotisserie chicken that spc476 had going. His amazing GF sent over a traditional apple pie, and we had already gotten a caramel crumble type of apple pie as well. Stuffing, broccoli, cranberry. No deluge of turkey leftovers for us!

I spent most of the day working out patterns for salwar kameez, mostly in my head. I did finally get the pants pattern made, partially arrived at by reverse engineering the rare pants I have that do fit. It took two drafts on newspaper before I had something good enough to transcribe to muslin, which I then cut out and made into pants, using basting stitches and nice wide allowances. I tried these on and wore them around a little while. They were a good fit with nice draping. They’re more parallel pants than traditional salwar; I like parallel better and they look more professional. I marked up all the seams and made notes on the muslin regarding which leg is which, front vs. back, and assembly order, before ripping out all the seams, reverting the pants to a pattern again.

The top’s probably going to be a bit trickier. Getting a more form fitting shape while still being able to pull it on overhead is a new challenge for me. Am looking at lots of kameez and kurtas online to get clues on how they’re made. Patterns are rather hard to find. Simplicity has a salwar kameez pattern but it looks kind of hokey. I had heard that McCall’s has one, but I haven’t found it yet.

Am working today. It’s predictably quiet, although I’ve already blown the 100% Service Level that my friend and colleague left yesterday. Le sigh. However, we did get this gem in the email:

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Gotta love it.

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