The Welt-miser

I'm Mi-iss Welt-miser, I'm Mi-iss fun;
I'm Mi-iss Welt-miser, I'm Mi-iss... son of a gun, now I have to take that all out and do it again!

I spent all afternoon today making more welt pockets.  My first ever welt pockets with a flap!  They're not perfect, but welt pockets rarely are, and this was a new style for me.  

Since it has this little flap thingy, I couldn't use the nifty easy welt pockets Mary Ruth alerted me to.  :(   There's probably some way to adapt the flap into the easy welts, but in order to adapt a pattern, you have to understand it first, and I had no clue what was going on with these pieces.  It was one of those ah-so-that's-how-it-works! when it's finished type things.

I am getting a little better though.  I've learned to freycheck the little triangles after slashing.  Then the triangles don't unravel into nothing when you're trying to push the welt in between them after turning the pocket to the inside.

I think they turned out pretty ok.  (You can't tell, but this is the same fabric as the pants in the previous post.)

Flaps down...

 

Flaps up.

I was really confused when making the pockets by this little piece called "inside pocket".  I thought it meant "inside of the pocket" and couldn't really figure it out.  Nope.  It means inside pocket.  There's a little secret pocket on the inside of the big pocket.  Pretty neat, no idea what it's for.  Mr. Trizzle, would you like to keep your spare change here?

(It seems to be condom-size; maybe Vogue is trying to promote safe sex among professionals.)