With Easter approaching this week, I wanted a new outfit to wear for our Easter program at church. Being on the Dave Ramsey plan though, has limited my personal “allowance” and I need new clothes about like I need a hole in the head. But, special occasions and all…..
So, after putting some thought into what I wanted from an Easter outfit-
- Rewearable
- Flowy
- Beautiful
- Lace
- Spring colors
- Comfortable
And, since I didn’t want to work-over my wedding dress just yet I went on a search to find something else that I could make and get the feel and look I wanted. And use some of that leftover wedding lace I have.
I wanted to be “pretty” (read dress), but wanted something “easy” (read slacks), and then realized that there IS a middle ground. The Palazzo pant. So, I took myself to pinterest, and looked at DIY clothes. I don’t even know that I put in a search term, because to be honest, I look at sewing patterns all the time, so they were probably already in my feed (you can find me here on pinterest).
And, since, um, it was Palm Sunday- you know, the sunday before easter, AND pastor and his wife were coming for dinner on “Holy Thursday”, I didn’t have a lot of time to dedicate to this project. But I still needed it to “wow”.
So, I settled on this VERY easy wide leg pant tutorial. The only change I would make would be the way she measures elastic- I would instead wrap it around your waist, and then subtract 2- 4 inches. Yep, you read that right. Elastic is made to stretch, and if it doesn’t have a certain amount of “hug” it doesn’t seem to work. So, anyway. I pulled out the many yards of wedding dress lace that I still had leftover, and went searching for an underlayer for it- I didn’t think see through pants were going to be a good idea ;-). I was hoping to have some of the blue satin that made up the underlayer of my wedding dress, but alas it was not to be. I ended up settling on muslin. Yep, you read that correctly, muslim. It is actually the same muslim that was laid down for my aisle runner at our wedding. I took it home and washed it, it was some ridiculous number of yards of fabric, I wasn’t letting it go to waste!
And I embarked on her palazzo pant tutorial. Again, it was super easy, a beginner could easily do this. Someone with experience could do this in under an hour. And got these lovely things. Next time I will do a better job of taking “in process” photos.
Now, I do wish I had made time to make a “proper” waistband, as these will always need a top that comes over that waist band to keep them from looking like pajama pants. BUT, I am also not terribly disappointed. I knew that would be the case when I chose to make them, and I needed easy and fast.
I didn’t have time to make a top, so Husband put up with some speed shopping so that I could find a top. Thank goodness for sales, I don’t buy new clothes, but this top just makes the outfit come together, don’t you think?
Doesn’t he look good in pink? And for the record, I had like really tall wedges on under those pants, so….. yeah, usually there is more of a difference in height between us. He can be a real stinker though….
What did you wear for Easter? Did you make part or all of your outfit?
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Happy Spring!
~Anda
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