new scrubs

yesterday i sewed pair of pants. yes, for real. i've been looking for some new scrubs for work, hoping to find some that i would just love. so i fell back onto the old secret: if you want your clothes to be the way that you want them, you gotta make them yourself.

as a student nurse, i had some white scrubs and when i graduated i dyed them brown. the dye didn't take very well- which I sort of expected - as they were cotton-polyester, but i thought i'd give it a shot. they turned out a light, murky reddish-brown. i've worn them a few times, but i really don't like the colour. but they were so comfy! so how, thought i, can i have pants that fit exactly like this, but in a different colour? of course! what could be more obvious than this? i’ll just get out the ol’ seam ripper and rip apart my old scrubs, use the pieces as pattern pieces, pin them to the new (green) fabric, cut the new pieces out, and then figure out how to put it (the green ones) back together again. how simple! :)


so i did.

here is the fabric with the "pattern" pieces pinned on. if you look closely, you can see that i've written all over them with pen, adding notches and everything (i didn't want to get lost halfway through)

and here are the pants!

nice elasticized butt!

and a drawstring in the front. check out those front pockets!

on my next day off, maybe i'll make the matching top. I have enough fabric and then some. oh and the whole thing cost less than a nice scrub top would cost at an average uniform store. yippee!