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[taimatsu]

CONCERT last night was largely excellent. London Irish Centre, a tenner; storyteller Billy Teare, singer Niamh Parsons with guitarist Graham Dunne, and folky band Cran. All very good. Niamh Parsons is to blame for a lot of the folk stuff I sing at LARP events; things like Black Is The Colour, Poor Sally Sit A-Weeping and Fear a Bhata I first heard sung by her a few years ago at the Purcell Room. It was great to hear her again.

Today I am trying to be organised and not succeeding very well so far. I want to create pirate trousers for Sunday and am failing to work out how to do this. They should show off the stripy hosiery I intend to wear, and be easy to put together and not require me to purchase a pattern! I could make wrap pants cut to below the knee and gather them to a cuff at the bottom, but I think I might screw that up. Tips and ideas welcome. Also a show of hands from costumiers among my friends would be cool - it would be nice to know who actually understands what I'm on about when I talk about these things :)

Tonight Robert plays a bridge match, so I have the evening free to paint the town red run the dryer and fill the dishwasher. Woohoo.

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[borusa.livejournal.com]

????

[kmazzy.livejournal.com]

nooooooooooooooooooooooo no need for that kind of show of hands!!!!!

[cryx]

i think you could easily make wrap pants, yupyup!

[emperor]

Alas, I know absolutely nothing about making costumes :(

[riksowden.livejournal.com]

Mmmm...costume...

I love costume me :D

[claire-smith.livejournal.com]

Oooh, those wrap pants are clever!

You could always turn up a hem along the bottom edge and run elastic though it? Then they would be gathered at the bottom, but still open at the sides to show your stripy legs...

[taimatsu]

Well, I tend to sew up the side seams - it's warmer! I think if I get them the right length I can gather them to a cuff fairly painlessly and do a button-and-loop closure, or hook and eye. IF that fails I will, indeed, do an elastic or drawstring thing.

The wrap pants pattern is great, save that the circumference of the leg-tube is related to the circumference of the waist/hips, so if you make them for a larger person they get very very big indeed, and can be difficult to taper. But I've made them for Robert and myself, and they've worked pretty well - and with so few seams there isn't too much to mend when they start falling apart!

[nannyo.livejournal.com]

I love Niamh Parson...cheap real live folk music is the best thing, just the best... our Folk club in HArrogate has started again since the summer, and I haven't been back yet, I'm very tempted now.
N.

[ixwin.livejournal.com]

As far as sewing goes, I generally know enough to understand the plan or problem, but not enough to offer useful suggestions.