Boy's Pants & New Pics of Stuff I've Made...

Welp... I tried to make the boy's pants that I have been wanting to try.  I have had the material and elastic for about a week.  I will tell you....I could have thrown the pants in the garbage today!!!!  I can make dresses all day with no pattern.  Give me a pattern and detailed instructions and I can not complete the task.  I just. don't. get it...

I started out by printing off the pattern...

Then I cut out the pattern...

Then I asked my handy helper a couple of questions....

Then I sewed them.  It was easy until I got to the waist band.  The fabric didn't allow me enough room to put in the elastic and fold it over.  It made them too short in the crotch...

So I took that out (It took me forever!!!) and added some more fabric to the top, which wasn't easy either.  Like I said above...I was so ready to just throw them away.  I decided to stay patient and finish them...

You can see how they don't look perfect after I had to do that but his shirt will cover it.  I have no Idea if I will try pants again.  I will have to make my own pattern for him because he is a little more stocky.  The pant legs seem a little tight and they are still a little shorter in the crotch than I would like.  Anyway... I put all of my sewing stuff up after doing these pants today.  I was going to make a couple of dresses but I just had had enough already!!!  I guess I was afraid that my dresses would turn out bad because the pants did.  

Here are some pictures of some of the other things that I have made.  They turned out really well, unlike Trevor's pants.  Ha!

This is the second dress I made and it turned out so much better than the first.  It is my favorite so far!

This is my third dress.  It is a little halter dress.  It was so much fun to make.  Both dresses were made for a newborn but can be made for any size.  

This is one of my first skirts that I made for my 31 skirt purse.  I know..It needs to be ironed but I haven't gotten to it yet.  :o)  These are easy to do as well.

This is my first tote bag.  It turned out well and I use it as a diaper bag.  I lined it with a different fabric and it is also reversible.   

I also put a pocket inside to hold pens and lipgloss.

I have made some other things that I don't have pictures of right now.  I just love to sew!

I guess that is all for today.  Happy sewing and hope your project isn't a flop like mine was!

Julia