Sigh.

I am now back at Cashmerette towers and the only way to get over leaving these little tykes was to… do some sewing. And indeed my first attempt at adult trousers! Sort of…. I cheated a bit, and decided to make the new Tofino pattern from Sewaholic, which we Brits would call PJ bottoms, and Americans apparently call “loungewear”. I like it.

I rescued some lovely green floral Liberty jersey from a UFO (unfinished object!) to make them. The jersey is pretty but incredibly lightweight and clingy in all the wrong places, dress-wise. Instead, I was able to *just* retrieve enough out of the half-sewn garment to make these. I bought a navy blue velveteen piping from a store in London to do the “go faster” stripes down the sides. Sadly, despite my best efforts – including stabilizing the jersey edge – it still stretched out a bit when I did the piping, so there are more like meandering lanes than go-faster highway. But hey, that’s more appropriate for my lounging style.

And here are some ludicrous pictures of me in my pyjamas for the whole world to see… Paired with my navy Renfrew, which may have been my first ever knit garment (the wonkiness suggests it):

Night night!