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Simplicity 3971--Pajamas and Suitjamas

4/12/2013

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I've made the pants part of this pattern a few times. About three years ago, I made everyone in the family a pair for Christmas, each with an applique "O." I was too lazy to applique "OSU" in the time I had and certainly too lazy for "Ohio State University." Everyone is pretty much still wearing those pjs.

Then my daughter asked me for another pair. These are made from a nice flannel we got at Joann's. Very simple to make, though that never stops me from making them too big and too long. She likes them anyway.
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Then my son wanted a pair of "suitjamas"--inspired by Barney on the sitcom "How I Met Your Mother." We looked around a bit, and they were $99!!! Plus $10 shipping!!! I said, infamously, "I will make you some."
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Holy cows, this project took a lot of time. I made the suit jacket and pants from Simplicity 3971 and the inner shirt from Jalie 2322 (shhh, don't tell my son it's a girl's pattern; I did switch the button opening), though it's not a full shirt. I will show you my secret circumventions in a moment.  I used some polyester satin from Joann's.
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The inner sanctum details are that I did not put sleeves on the shirt. I sewed a strip of the shirt fabric into the cuffs of the sleeve so that it would look like there were cuffs, but it doesn't really have that effect in the end. He wanted a tie, but I didn't want him choking or being uncomfortable in the (unlikely) event that he actually wore these as pajamas. So I sewed a strip of the black around the shirt collar and made a removable tie that affixes to the shirt with a button.
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Actually, as the wrinkles in the full-length pictures reveal, he has worn it to sleep in!
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