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Here is another version of my new computer art.
Until next time
Adieu
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Having finished the knee opening, I then added lacing holes at the rear vent.
I also decided to add a vent piece, as I would sometimes wear the breeches with a dolman (which has no tails) .
Here it is with the lacing open. I added two holes in the vent piece to stop it shifting when I'm dancing.
Here it is with the lacing closed.
Until next timeGreetings
Having attached the waistband, I now turned my attention to the knee openings.
Due to a confusion caused by misprints and inexact instructions on the pattern, I had not cut the leg panels with a fold-in buttonhole tab or button flaps, so I cut these as separate pieces and added them to the knee opening.
The pattern had also specified that the knee cuff should be cut as four separate pieces and seemed to indicate a standard 5 eighth seam allowance.
Due to the way I had set out the pattern pieces, I had cut one cuff on the fold. This one worked with the standard seam allowance, giving me an inch wide finish. I had to sew the other band with the minimum seam allowance to get the same result.
Once more, this new pattern required some furkling...
This shows the internal button flap and the inside of the button-hole panel after the cuff has been sewn on. The buttonhole panel is anchored at the corners with 'as-invisible-as-I-can-make-'em' stitches.
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Having lined the fall, set the pockets and sewn the out-seams and the in-seam, the next thing to do was to sew on the waistband.