Making bias pants

draping around the pants pattern

I was intrigued about the how to make bias pants in the latest threads no 166

and I had a few days spare to try.

I like to form in my mind how a project will work but in this one I went completely blind.

the pouch

Almost Finished

I didn't get it quite right.

I got lost after step 2 . I got to the canoe and I got confused about the instructions I sewed the y seams how I thought it should go .

How should I sew C the bias seam ?

I looked at step 5 and I thought I sewed it correctly and I cut the tubes but it didn't seem to me

to be long enough so I ripped the c bias seam apart . When I did that I recognised the shape

as a bias tube when you make your own bias binding.

I then decided to wrap the bias tube around the halved paper pattern as that should be the shape I'm looking for.. and I did with both.

This means I sewed them along the bias seams not easy.

As a result of sewing them this way I found the seams go the same way not as intended in the article.So it looks odd but as its patterned fabric not so bad.

I think I should have stretched the bias seams first before I sewed them , but this was an experiment.

Placing the crotch was interesting , I measured for my crotch and my seat rise and its difficult as really you can put it anywhere as its a tube and placing one leg inside the other I felt I was just guessing for placement so the seams are weird on the pants I made

They fit very well and are very comfortable but not strong . Good for around the house I'll have to make another.

The different colours of the pictures is the difference between a good camera and my mobile phone.

The real colour is the purple 

I haven't finished the hems yet they're just overlocked.

I've started looking at old copies of threads for bias tubes.

My venus fly trap and company are doing well

The venus fly trap I posted about in sept is doing well , When the weather this summer began
to rise over 28 degress celsius , it began to die back and lost it's gloss.
I realised I would have to  test and see if giving it cooler conditions at night would be the solution,
so I began to zip up the pot in a zip lock bag and placed it in the crisper at night taking it outside
in the morning .The crisper is at 6 degrees celsius and outside climbs to 32 degress celsius .
In a couple of days  the colour improved and now after a couple of months doing this new traps are growing now but smaller and its clumping which is a great sign..
I'm now confident I can grow them here so I've bought some more and they
are thriving . They all go in their zip lock bags at night. I'll have to get a bar fridge.
I make sure the zip lock bags are clean on the outside and tightly zipped for hygiene and I don't
store directly next to food.





 

 

Update on the health and condition of my cephalotus , they are doing very well
This is the longest I have ever kept any cephalotus follicularis .
This time they are growing in a self watering pot and I've placed a small layer of gravel
under the sphaghum moss to keep them dryer.
I noticed one wasn't happy though and it was the one closest to the irrigation so I 've moved it.
away and made sure the pot isn't as full and its getting a bit more sun and now it's pitchering again.

Only a month ago I had delicate yellow flowers and a very green aquatic bladderwort , I think its utricularia gibba, then I noticed little red segmented worms living in tunnels had made the birdbath home.
 ( what had they used for the tunnels).
From reading on the internet I think its some sort of fly offspring .
I suddenly noticed a couple of days ago mosquito larvae in the birdbath , where there'd been none.
The bladderwort had no bladders.. I immediately cleaned the birdbath. I presume the worms had made
the tunnels from chewing the bladders from the bladderwort. I now check it far more often, I have to,
especially as it will be a while before more bladders have grown back.

More nepenthes photos, these I bought from ExoticaPlants.com.au

size 26 cm long 5 cm wide

very ampullaria like this one not as fussy about humidity and heat though

beautiful colour

Another nepenthes picture

I can't find taxonomic info on this plant  . It's just called compacta on the label
There's nothing about it on the carnivorous plant search engine.
I'd like to know its parenting but it's a nepenthes and its beautiful.
I particularly love the stripes on its peristome.

My venus fly trap is still alive

Here in the south east of Queensland I've always had trouble growing venus fly traps
I saw another dying fly trap at a local nursery and bought it ,hoping that I could grow for a little
while.
It was very small maybe 3 cm across and I didn't give it much hope to live but I read
at the pitcher plantation that he had had the same problem and now living in canberra he could
grow them to much longer and larger sizes.
So I thought well it needed colder conditions, so in June I placed it in the fridge wrapped up in
cling wrap and placed inside a clear plastic container.
Every day I could see the one green trap still glossy through the container and I labeled it
don't plant till sept.
Its 7 degrees celsius in the fridge and that trap never died.
When I took it out 3 weeks ago it was still alive and looked healthy.  I've planted it
and today it has it's first trap ready to spring.
.Still very small, but has soon as it has it's first feed I'm sure it will spurt on , as it's growing well
now.