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Pants and cardigan

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Pheww..!!! That took me wáy too long! So I'm glad I'm finally done with this. But I must say I'm pretty pleased with the end result. (And I'm sure my pants will start to fit better once I shed some pounds...) What you see is cardigan pattern #7 from KnipMode December 2011 and pants pattern # 129 from Burda February 2007. You can find the linedrawing of the cardigan here . This is the linedrawing of the pants.      I used size 46 and eliminated the pockets. I wanted the lines of these pants to be as smooth as possible. (The cardigan is a size 44) That pants-size 46 is really doing my head in. I know I'm tall, but honestly....do I look like a 46 to you?? (Please tell me I don't...) The fake-fur collar is the main feature of this outfit. I could eat this stuff! It feels so soft and luxurious. I didn't read the instructions very carefully, or else I wouldn't have fiddled that long with attaching the collar to the neckline.
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The world lost another icon, too young, too soon. Goodbye Whitney. You will be missed.
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Thanks everyone who left a nice comment about my top. Stephanie asked if I could show a close-up picture of the collar. I completely forgot about that request and just read it again. I'll do that in my next post. That's a promise! After the top, I made black trousers. But silly, silly me. For years on a row now I am a size 44. Since I've gained some weight in the last year I'm more of a 46 now. So I thought it was only logical to sew a size 46 and then I would end up with perfect fitting pants. Only one 'small' problem, I forgot that most of the years I have been a size 44, I already cut extra seams and width (and therefore probably cut a size 46 already!) to make sure pants and skirts would fit me. So what I actually did now was cut exactly the same size and ended up with some tight-fitting pants. It's wearable, the fabric stretches quite a lot, but it's a far cry from the perfect-fitting pants I had imagined and I'll always have to wear somethin