I came across a half-started projected when I unpacked my winter clothes. Meant now to be winter PJ’s, it started life as a muslin for pants.
The bottoms are a soft corduroy. Soft enough for a baby. The pattern was a failure, as far as fit goes, but I don’t really care that much how my PJ’s fit; just that they are weather appropriate.
The fabric is soft and stretchy. Even though I wouldn’t want to wear these in public, I know I’ll love them when the temps drop below zero.
Before folding away for storage, I pulled a complementary fabric from the stash.
Color in my photos are a bit off. Both fabrics are an oyster color, more like in the first pic. Don’t know why, my camera added a distinctively yellow cast. I used my TNT knit-top pattern, Silhouette Patterns 195. This is favorite version with the dart rotated to the armscye. Yes, I sewed a dart even for PJ’s. Cotton knit, with an interesting texture and not quite enough yardage for long sleeves. Easy solution: Cuffs
The actually sewing took place 2 days after I did the embroidery. I started with a 5 color, motif from I don’t know whom or when
Even though it was 5 colors, they were very close in both hue and intensity. I watched it stitch in Embird’s Sew screen before joining sections and reducing the color count to 2. Then I duplicated until I had triplets.
Using Embird Editor function, I sorted the colors so that I didn’t need to change threads back and forth for each motif. Added trim stitches so there weren’t any long floats. Too bad my pic of the top didn’t show how lovely this is. Very feminine. Has an heirloom quality.
It’s still too warm to wear this set of PJ’s, but the time is coming.