Skinny Jeans for My Love

I am proud of this wonderful and successful project. When I sew for my love, The piece must be perfect, or he is going to spot the mistakes or unfitting part right away in the first fitting. I always consult him about my own projects, which I always submit to his meticulous examination and he always, ALWAYS sees the faults, even the smallest ones or the ones I almost forgive. I can accept some compromise most of the time, but he is implacable, specially when clothes are for himself.

I bought this denim elastic fabric in Stoff and Stil. Their denim is famous for having a lot of give, and this was perfect for this project, and also the weight of the fabric, only 10,5 oz. 

For the pattern, I took some old skinny jeans, and I replicate them with the rub-off method I leaned in the Jean-Ius course. 

This kind of very skinny jeans require a lot of trial and error to achieve the perfect fit. So, I basted them, tried them on (with fly and front and back pockets completed) and stitched first the inner seams and then the outer seam, giving some and taking off some until the feeling, standing up and seated, were perfect, like a glove. 

They are not perfect, the front pockets are cut too deep, because I had to raise the waist (which is always short in these rubbed-off jeans). Next time I will have to have that into account. 

For the rest, they are perfect, cool and comfortable. 

Green Slim Fit Jeans

 Jeans is the only thing in my wardrobe (plus panties, socks and bras) not manufactured by yours truly. I'd love to make all my jeans, but the problem is I cannot find the right fabric. Accepting they will lack the stoned-washed effect (humanity should avoid this one entirely, by the way...), I cannot find the prefect balanced denim fabric, they are all too thin, too thick, wrong shade, no elastic, etc. 

I can perfectly imagine the right shade of indigo blue, 95% cotton and 5% ellastane (no polyester, thank you), thick enough to be strong, thin enough to be sewn in multiple layers, and sweet to the skin... but that is only in my imagination...

But wait! Last October, I was enjoying the Sitges Film Festival, when I spotted a small fabric store (mostly patchwork fabrics, so popular here). They had three denim fabrics, and I bought 1.10m of this green one. It is a lovely cotton and ellastane twill. I saw I could go "slim fit" with it, and the result has been better than expected.

 After wearing my jeans all day, no bags anywhere, perfectly tight and in place, as you can see in the pictures. 

The pattern is mine. I made it years ago using Aldrich's book for woman patterns. I simply made the legs narrower, tested the fit, which has to be regulated by the particular stretch of every fabric, and done! Fantastic jeans!