Just finished my FreeSewing Crux Climbing pants. I first made a muslin, a first for me, just to see where the problem areas were and to reduce the amount of mistakes on the fancy pink fabric.

I also tried dying the muslin using saved avocado pits and shells, which worked out pretty well. I also tried out some of my Bernina 930’s decorative stitches on the muslin. I figured just the topstitching was fancy enough for the pink denim.

Both feature these nice articulated knees and a gusset, a very interesting part of these. The fly of the muslin isn’t perfect on the inside, but that’s on the inside so 🤷

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Mighty chuffed with how the topstitching is coming along on my #FreeSewingCrux climbing pants! I figured I could get away with the hot pink stretch denim for sports gear. And if not, I say I can.

I’m using my Bernina’s triple stitch for the top stitching (still cheaper than special topstitching thread, so 🤷). The triple stitch started acting up after using the machine’s basting stitch setting though (see photo 4), so I’ve gotten in touch with the company I bought it from. While waiting for them to video call me, though, I used the overlock stitch for a while to finish an edge, and it started working perfectly again.

So that’s nice, I guess… Though I would prefer it to know what caused the issue and how I can solve it without having to overlock two sideseams for pants first.

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