Mary Ostler

I am broke beyond all measure this month. I have had to use what I have inside the fabric stash to work on my Turkish garb. Hence the somewhat nasty green/gold sari material shalvar.  Since I will be making nicer ones once I am back in the black, I have used elastic in this pair.

Shalvar

Reversible…yet still ugly!

Chirka

I used scrap red broadcloth and brown cotton duct. I used mother of pearl button, because they were the only ones that I had enough of.

7 more images after the jump

I cut the arm hole way to large, and it leaves a large fold up front when I wear it.  Agnes told me to sew in a gusset, and thought that would help.

Make shift pattern for the gusset. USS Enterprise anyone?

Hand shitched on to the arm hole.

A little bit of puckering going on, but the large bulge in the front is gone…woot.

I like how it sits way more now. Time to make a good one now. This one is going to be spare/work chirka.

Have I mentioned how much I enough sewing….<groan>