Sari Pant Hem

These are my favorite pants.  The first reason why I love these pants is because of the unique color.  The second reason I love these pants is because it is so D*MN comfortable.  The rise is perfect, the pocket space is perfect, and the leg room is perfect.

The only thing that was not perfect was the frayed bottom.  This imperfection was not okay (especially because I wanted my perfect pants to be perfect), so I decided to give it a new hem.

After I cut off all of the frayed... age... i decided to check the length of the pants to see what I needed to do. To my surprise, the pant was at a great length even though I cut about 2'' off!  This made me realize that I buy pants that are way too long.

For this project I wanted to play with outside/inside elements.  So I decided to put a decorative border on the hem to look like lining.  This way the pant would look like it is rolled-up. 

To do this I took one of my mom's old sari's and made a sort of bias covering.

I am not totally disappointed with the look.  The boarder is very feminine and a little too shiny for my liking.  However, I wanted to push the boundary, so I think the risk I took was fine.

 Yay! I can not wait to wear these in a public setting!

(PS: I do not have my camera stand with me.  When I get reunited with my stand, I'll take a full body shot to share the end result).

Tablet Cover

I'm heading over to India in less than 10 hours!  This is really exciting for me because I get to see all of my family.... But I also need to get some sleep ('cause let's be honest, I won't be able to get much in economy seating), so I'll try to make this fast.

I recently bought a Wacom Bamboo Splash tablet.

I bought this because I wanted to get into computer illustration.

So far the product is really fun and easy to use (wow, I wish Wacom would pay me for saying this).  However, the tablet didn't come with any good case.  This was a problem for me because I wanted to take the tablet with me to different places, like India, but I did not want to take the whole box.  So I decided to make my own case.   

A couple of years ago, when I was going through my fabric stash, I noticed that I had many pieces of fabric that were too small to use in a garment.  However, I felt guilty for throwing them out because it seemed like a  lot of fabric waste (these pieces were of handkerchief width).  So I cut them into 4''x4'' pieces.  The idea was to make a collage fabric.  I never got to making the fabric, but I'm glad i saved the pieces because it was a perfect idea for my tablet cover.

The main challenge was arranging the pieces to be balanced.  The other minor challenge was sewing, and this was only because the 4x4 pieces were not exactly 4x4 (they were a little skewed).

The tablet tutorial tells us to be really gentle with the pen's tip and side button.  So I was really nervous about the pen that came with the tablet.  To solve this issue I decided to add 1/2'' batting.

And here's the final result!  I'm really excited about how it turned out.  This was kind of my first venture into accessory land, and I can't say I have any regrets.  The corners are not perfectly mitered, but I'm willing to look at this as a minor set-back because the cover is perfect for it's function of carrying around the tablet.

And, the cover is perfectly travel size (the suitcase is a carry-on)!

One of my favorite features has to be the lining.  Whenever I open the pouch, it's like a passion-fruit pink surprise pops out (it's not really passion-fruit pink, but because the lining is so much brighter than the outside, it feels like passion fruit).  What is even better is that I did not intentionally choose this fabric for this project.  It just sort of pulled it out of a pile so that I could finish this project fast.  Last minute decision = awesome!!!