Bubblegum Cargo Skirt

I somehow stumbled across the Waffle Patterns Anzu cargo skirt pattern a while ago, and it made me add "cargo skirt" to my list of Vague Ideas for Someday Projects.  I did make a carpenter skirt, out of a completely inappropriate fabric, and that I never once wore until I shortened it (which involved removing the excess pockets.)

I also wanted to make another shortened McCall's 7981, and it recently clicked together that a shortened 7981 could be a good base for the vague idea of a cargo skirt.

I decided to use the 2 yards of 60" pink chambray I got from the craft thrift store, since I didn't have any plans for that fabric and that much fabric seemed like it should be enough (and it was, with a decent remnant left)

Just adding pockets to McCall's 7981 probably would have worked just fine, but I also wanted to add a back yoke.  I borrowed that, along with the shape of the edge to sew to the back yoke and the back pockets and the belt loops, from early 1980s Butterick 4703.  Many pockets came from Simplicity 8526, plus some done free form.

And I ended up with this

 

 

75% Wrong Shorts

 I don't like wearing white...or brown...and I don't like the idea of printed plaid on wovens in general, as much as I do love plaid.

But I do love plaid.

I'd had some "almost black but nope look closer! it's dark brown" and white sturdy cotton printed glen plaid for ages.  It had been set aside to be donated, but I decided to keep it and make an effort to use it.  I thought maybe I'd make a bias-cut A-line skirt but decided instead to use this not-quite-my-style fabric to make a test version of Butterick 4703 in a non-stretch fabric to see how it fits.

I know I could have been a lot more casual in how I cut and constructed this, but...I wasn't.  So!  Pattern matching it is!

Shorts!

 Going to be up-front about this project: like the first newsboy cap I made last year, the idea to make this was heavily influenced by something I choose a lot for my character in Animal Crossing--a pair of dark denim shorts.

I've had this vintage Butterick 4703 for years--not exactly sure how vintage it is, since it's from the era when Butterick patterns didn't include copyright dates anywhere, but I'd say it's from the very early 1980s

I had some denim left over from a pair of pants I made for the kiddo a few years ago--definitely not enough for more pants for anyone, but it turned out to be just enough for these shorts (length determined entirely by the available amount of cloth.)

They're really nothing like the ACNH shorts, but there's a lot in life that's not much like Animal Crossing, so that's fine.