All posts tagged: tap pants

The Toeses & Roses tap pants

Last week’s Sew Weekly challenge was to use two different prints in one outfit.  Mixing prints is a bit of a struggle for me.  I’m a sewing minimalist – famous for my white on white!  I do like a good print, I just usually like it to stand on its own. But I want to push myself, so I consulted my list of things that I actually need to make for myself (because I don’t believe in making something I don’t need and won’t wear just for the sake of fulfilling a Sew Weekly  challenge — that’s just wasteful), and top of the list was tap pants. As you may know, I love tap pants. I have quite a few pairs, but with the amount of swing dancing I do, and how often I wear skirts in windy Wellington, I can never have too many pairs. And top of my list was a pair to wear under my ‘Not Actually a Circle Skirt’ dress (which I didn’t blog about here, because, well, it’s kinda boring, …