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frankp

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So I made a couple pairs of wool field pants. I made this pattern a few years ago and made a cotton pair of field pants for my daughter and a wool pair for me that I hunted in for about 5 years. These two new pairs are lighter weight and intended to replace my nylon hiking pants. One pair with zip-off legs and one pair with full-length legs.

Zip-off in green
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Without the legs
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Full length in a brown tweed.
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Impressed. I don't know if I'm adventurous enough to start making clothing.
 
Wow great stuff. Once its consistently cold here in WNY (roughly November 1st onward) I wear wool field pants all season. Quiet and warm. No swoosh, swoosh, swoosh when you walk either. If a briar snaps on your foreleg, no pop sound which alerts anything everywhere.
 
Weldabeast said:
Those are some sweet pant...... I'm more interested in the shirt. That there some hardcore timberpimp
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I'm not sure if you're baggin' on me or being sincere. I'll assume sincere ;) Simple tie-dye sunshirt bought at the beach. It gets a lot of use.


krub6b said:
Where did you source your material from for this project?
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I have a local fabric shop here that sells wool "offcuts" for $12-$15 per yard. It takes about 2 1/3 yards of material to make the zip off pants and just under 2 yards for the full leg pants. I don't know if they sell the wool off-cuts online or not but here's their website. https://gstreetfabrics.com



woodsdog2 said:
Wow great stuff. Once its consistently cold here in WNY (roughly November 1st onward) I wear wool field pants all season. Quiet and warm. No swoosh, swoosh, swoosh when you walk either. If a briar snaps on your foreleg, no pop sound which alerts anything everywhere.
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Yeah, I much prefer wool to nylon. It's heavier but I'm not slogging deep into the woods when I hunt. These were made for light hiking and backpacking in cool weather and aren't quite durable enough for walking through briars and such. My hunting wool pants are significantly heavier weight.
 
frankp said:
I'm not sure if you're baggin' on me or being sincere. I'll assume sincere ;) Simple tie-dye sunshirt bought at the beach. It gets a lot of use.



I have a local fabric shop here that sells wool "offcuts" for $12-$15 per yard. It takes about 2 1/3 yards of material to make the zip off pants and just under 2 yards for the full leg pants. I don't know if they sell the wool off-cuts online or not but here's their website. https://gstreetfabrics.com




Yeah, I much prefer wool to nylon. It's heavier but I'm not slogging deep into the woods when I hunt. These were made for light hiking and backpacking in cool weather and aren't quite durable enough for walking through briars and such. My hunting wool pants are significantly heavier weight.
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Are you using the wool suiting material or coating that they list? or is that the difference between your light weight and heavy weight versions?
 
krub6b said:
Are you using the wool suiting material or coating that they list? or is that the difference between your light weight and heavy weight versions?
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These are both technically "suiting". My heavier-weight hunting ones would be "coating".
 
krub6b said:
Perfect, now I need to find a good template for a set of overalls
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If you have a pair you like, just trace them out along the seam lines and add 1/2" all around. Then you can adjust them as necessary once you've got the basic pattern. Good to try taping a newspaper or tissue paper pattern together to see how it fits before sewing with your final fabric. Conversely "Green Pepper patterns" definitely have a ski-bib style pattern and they are dead easy to follow.
 
frankp said:
If you have a pair you like, just trace them out along the seam lines and add 1/2" all around. Then you can adjust them as necessary once you've got the basic pattern. Good to try taping a newspaper or tissue paper pattern together to see how it fits before sewing with your final fabric. Conversely "Green Pepper patterns" definitely have a ski-bib style pattern and they are dead easy to follow.
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Those green pepper patterns look pretty legit, I'd want to add some cargo pockets to them but that is pretty close to what I'm after. Just enough height to keep drafts out without binding up the midsection too much.
 
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