Couldn't You Just Cry?
My favorite flannel pajama pattern is wrong on the yardage and layout. I discovered this the first time I used the pattern--even getting out a tape measure and doing the math to prove that their proposed layout doesn't work for anything except the extra-small and is wildly off for a medium--but had extra fabric so I was able to make it work. So, when I bought the music and roses flannel, I planned for the error and bought extra yardage. Five and a half yards, which is theoretically the amount I was able to make work last time. And, even breaking every sewing rule by flipping the back of the pattern, I can't figure out how I got it to work. I double-checked this blog in case I'd left myself any helpful notes, but I didn't. I am guessing that this fabric shrunk more than the other one did, because this did work somehow with the other fabric. I have now made a note to always buy SIX yards of flannel for these blasted pajamas, but that doesn'...