Underpants!

Today I sewed the underpants!  It took me about three hours, but that was with me being distracted by the TV and having to figure out the instructions (for those who haven't used commercial patterns lately, the instructions are waaay too brief and leave out key information).  Even with the amount of sewing I've done, I always have a few fits and starts and mistakes because I can't figure out what the instructions are telling me to do.

I also learned a new construction technique - flat felled seams.  Since (again) the instructions are really bad, I messed up both seams that were supposed to be flat felled, but the very top of one came out correctly and I had an "AHA!" moment when I saw it.  So now I know!

 This is NOT a flat felled seam.













This is also not a flat felled seam.  But riiight at the top there, that's what it should actually look like.  Now I know!

Top: Civil war underpants!

Side: hanging on the dress form.  If you look, you'll see that the pants don't actually close.  That's because civil war gals had to deal with big skirts, which meant they had to basically just be able to lift everything up and . . . go, when they needed to use the bathroom.