Dark blue denim pants (the buttons)

 

In an earlier post of february 2011 I complained that I had problems in coming along a nice blue denim fabric. So I was rather happy when strolling the friday market of Amstelveen, a city adjacent to Amsterdam, I came along a seller who had a small quantity of dark blue denim in stock.

I made a pair of jeans from this fabric, using the pattern I have described before, so I will not elaborate on this here.

Here I just would like to show the nice buttons I applied to this sewing.

For the fly I used jeans buttons with kind of a rose centerpiece, items that are not visible from the outside, however, so it's only me who knows about them (and those few people who happen to read this, of course)
 

And for the backside pockets I had some very nice shining jeans buttons, which certainly can be noticed by people around, if they would care to be interested in taking notice of such items, quod non, generally speaking.

Maybe this is just the appropriate moment to make a referral to a colleague blogger from New York, who writes about sewing men's wear and who wrote kind of tutorial how to sew a pair of jeans. The blog is called Male Pattern Boldness and the series starts at May 2, 2011. Take a look.

A "western" blouse, the parts

 checkered blue cotton

This is the checkered blue light cotton fabric from the shop in Volendam, I referred to in a former post.


The idea is to manufacure kind of a western blouse from this material. Checkered fabrics are due to be trendy this fall, so why should'nt I jump the bandwagon...


In general, I am not very much in favor of checkered fabric, but one is never too old to give it a try. And light blue is one of my favourite colours. So....


I will use two colours of yarn,  a light blue one for stitching together the different parts and a grey one for making some decorative stitchings.


And what about the buttons?


Buttons in "western" shirts will have kind of a white, shining core in a metal like setting. I prefer something different, like these ones:

 the button to be used on this kind of fabric

I think these look very special, in combination with the colours and pattern of the fabric.


Here is what they look like from the back side. Buttons with incisions...(for less than 1 euro each, don't understand how one can produce it for this price):

OK. These are the parts. When combined correctly, these should produce kind of a "western" blouse.


Let's wait and see. (Can't wait? Look here)