Scenic Route

Winter demands a wardrobe of Happy Pants.  For years that's what our family has called around-the-house pants that are soft and have some sort of elastic waist.   Now to date, my husband has been very happy to see his gym clothes do double duty.  Then one day he pulled out a particularly obnoxious pair of black & red flannel Happy Pants from his suitcase.  And asked me to hem them up.  If I'm going to hem ugly Happy Pants I might as well make them, you know? So, I brought this fun flannel back from the States and intended on using Vogue 7079 that I've had for a very long time.   However, the pattern was a one-piece job and looked like a wagon sheet.  Lots of potential fitting issues.  For Happy Pants--really??  Since I've had great fit with Burda Style pants for myself, I checked out  Burda Style's Men's Pajama Set 12/2010 #145  .  It got good reviews on PR.  When made up,  they indeed had the crotch s...

Well, yes, it has been awhile.  No need to go into details other than all the distractions have been good ones.  :) Yesterday I went along with some 20 fellow members of the  International Women's Assn. of Mongolia to a behind-the-scenes tour  of Gobi Cashmere!! Yikes I love, love cashmere.  Soft, light, warm, timeless.  Gorgeous and practical.  What's not to love? But after 10+ years of "collecting" ;) Gobi cashmere, I had never been to that building.  Where it's actually made.  Until yesterday. The tour was CRAZY COOL . The place was massive and busy as a beehive. My silly pictures don't do it justice.  ...and speaking of pictures...If I had any doubt that phone pics are NOT as good as my old Sony point & shoot camera, I doubt no more.  (OK, I have a iPhone 4S and we were a group of 20 being herded along pretty fast)  Still, I'm so glad I replaced my camera on the way back to Mongolia.  However, I for...