Clown Pants

I will try to do a full run-down of my weekend triathlon extravaganza tomorrow, but in the meantime I'll distract you with some cute baby clothes that I finished a few days ago. The pants are the bloomers out of Weekend Sewing and the top is just a plain white onesie with a heart (cut with pinking shears) sewn on. I didn't realize when I started this project how clown-y the poofy polka-dotted pants would be. I'm hoping they will also be worn with the red knitted dress I'm furiously working on.

A note about Weekend Sewing - absolutely gorgeous book, but am I the only one that has been driven mad with the way the patterns are laid out? All the patterns in the book are printed on two oversized sheets of heavy paper, and the patterns say to use a tracing wheel and tracing paper to copy the patterns onto the fabric. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, or I bought the wrong paper or wheel, but they didn't work for me AT ALL. I ended tracing the pattern onto a piece of tissue paper from my gift wrap stash, then using it like a normal paper pattern.

Okay, enough ranting. This is the first pattern I've made from this book, and it was really easy. I'd say you could make these bloomers in less than 2 hours (assuming you skipped the multiple trips to the craft store for tracing paper, etc.)

I've got a rockin' headache tonight (I'm assuming dehydration from my race) so I think I'm going to drink some water and hit the sack. Hope you all had a great weekend!