Flowers and chocolate

I’m going to go with small white button centers for the flowers I made for my craft room curtain refashion. The whole curtain isn’t very impressive just lying on the bed here in HK, so I will take an in situ picture next month for you when we are home for for a bit. Some of my early daffodils might be up by the time we return to HK.

Last May when we were in London for the Chess 25^th anniversary concert I picked up a pair of quite lightweight linen blend trousers when the black chinos I brought for the weekend proved too warm. I bought them a size large, figuring they would make good HK and airplane wear. Wear them I did on the BA flight back to HK from London a few days later. However, I met with a little accident. I did not eat my after dinner chocolate squares and left them on the armrest of my shotgun seat. When I extended my fully flat business class seat into a bed, the chocolate slipped down unnoticed and melted a bit on my pale grey trousers (see the button for the original trouser color). The most kind purser pinched a pair of navy pyjama bottoms from First Class for me and insisted on giving me a voucher for dry cleaning. (I didn’t use it — ’twas my own dumb fault!). A bit too much vigorous rubbing made the linen wear thin in one spot and did not result in removing all the stain: dry cleaning wouldn’t have done it either. I should have just dyed them directly….

I threw in a two yard piece of linen and a robin egg’s blue tank top at the same time I dyed the trousers. It’s cool how not everything takes dye.

Despite being bought a size large, the cut of the trousers meant that I was not about to get away with a simple refashion like December’s khaki walking skirt, but now that I am back into sewing, a panelled skirt with inverted pleats was not going to be too much fuss. The cutting takes mere minutes and commits you to the project.

I chopped off the legs and cut them into two equal-ish sections: