Easy pants.

I've been so obsessed with simplifying all my sewing down to one pattern piece projects, that I decided to change the name of this blog. I have been working on pants lately, just because it's what my kids needed. Loose fitting, casual pants and shorts need only one pattern piece. Why isn't that common knowledge? Sure, they're not tailored or fancy but we don't need that! Both of these designs use only one pattern piece and a couple extra strips cut by measurement:

p.j. pants

leggings

I think the patterns will be ready for testing soon. Question is, will school letting out give me more time or less?

My First Giveaway - How did you learn to sew?

I think everybody I have talked to about sewing knows what a big fan I am of YouCanMakeThis.com. A couple of my friends have asked me to teach them how to sew, and I told both of them, "find a pattern you like on YouCanMakeThis.com, and then come over and we'll sew it together." The patterns all come with step-by-step photographed instructions that make it impossible to fail. And they are up-to-the-minute cute.

So anyway, for my first giveaway, I'm going to choose two lucky winners to receive the adorable pillow pattern shown above. Just leave me a comment below, answering one little question... who taught you how to sew? Or did you teach yourself using a book, the web, or something else? Next Friday on December 18th, at 10:00 pm I will draw two numbers from a hat based on how many comments there are. If one of the numbers matches your comment (1 for the first comment, 2 for the second, etc...) you'll receive an email with instructions on how to download the pattern!

If you haven't learned how to sew yet, maybe you will win and learn from this very pattern! My offer still stands, come on over and we'll sew it together!