Sewing

My room has been taken over by fabric, shorts, and design paper. You would think that sewing a pocket onto a pair of shorts would be extremely simple, but instead I was faced with many challenges. First of all, the first pocket I made, I decided to hand sew because I figured it would be easier to really feel and work with the fabric the first time. I was wrong. Yesterday I spent a good half hour simply trying to figure out how the pockets on the inside of athletic shorts are made. I tried making them out of paper, simply pinning the fabric to mock the design but I couldn’t get it right. It’s also difficult to make a pocket with the material I am using because it is very stretchy to match the fabric of the shorts. After spending over an hour trying to figure out what I was doing wrong, I decided to go a different route. I chose to not mimic the pockets in the original shorts, but to create my own pattern. Yesterday I put pockets into three of the shorts and was able to finish the rest today.