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The Kind Of Friends

This is a crucial moment for our species: We have the choice to self-destruct or reverse the damage caused by the unconscious few among us.

How? We grow, we evolve, we learn and we share all of it with each other in whatever ways we can. However, growth can take time; we have to learn lessons again and again until they imprint. And yet we no longer have the luxury of time. That’s where I believe friendship comes in.

It’s hard to recognize your own patterns. Emotions plus trying circumstances equal a perfect emotional shit storm that’s hard to see through. Everything feels confusing and unclear—but not to a friend. A friend is removed enough, loves you and has only your best interest at heart. He or she can be there to remind you of that which you’ve conveniently forgotten and help you find your way out.

How many of us sit back and watch our friends struggle through something tough? We see the answer, but we don’t want to meddle, thinking, “best to let them figure it out for themselves.”

I say, “No!” Help them, tell them, yell it, write it, draw a picture, send them a song, whatever it takes. It’s like when your friends inform you that they never really liked your partner, but only after you broke up? Why, friends? Save me the time and heartache and tell me from the start!

This absolutely works both ways: I want to be told when I'm being an a-hole, when you’ve spotted a shortcoming, an issue or a pattern of which I’m unaware. I want them all! Because I couldn’t see it, and thanks to this dear and courageous friend, I now might.

One thing to note: Most everything we’re able to see in another is a mirrored reflection of something we’re intended to look at within our own lives. In short, friends often project their own stuff onto your situation. But let’s take this even one step further back: If you believe in the law of no mistakes (which I do wholeheartedly), then even the coincidence that you were paired by the all-knowing Universe with said friend, and had a reaction to their situation based on your own, is no mistake.

A warning: It’s not always easy to hear the truth, especially the deep dark elements, but who said this was easy? Earth is beautiful, but she sure ain’t easy. You run the risk of losing a friendship (usually only temporarily) by telling a truth someone is not ready to hear. I say, “Fine. By. Me!” I like to keep my inner circle tight, comprised of nothing but awesomeness. When you’re ready to be awesome again, you’ll come back around. The good news is I’m equally as forgiving as I am honest.


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Greeting the Saints

By Victoria Matthews What would happen if the provinces of the Communion were equally dedicated to being in relationship one with another, no matter what?

The Anglican Communion: A Brief History Lesson

By Robert W. Prichard To find the beginnings of the Anglican Communion, one has to fast forward to 1838 and the efforts of two bishops who were desirous of a closer relationship between the Church of England and the Episcopal Church.

Choosing Mutuality

By Alyson Barnett-Cowan While it is true that the Communion’s language of “Covenant” was first used in The Windsor Report of 2004, the idea of having a comprehensive, coherent, agreed-upon understanding of how the Anglican family works has been around for a long time.

Eyeball-to-Eyeball Communion

By Thabo C. Makgoba Perhaps the Covenant is not perfect — no human invention ever will be. But it is more than good enough. It has the potential to work well, if we are committed to making it do so.

Families and Accountability

By R. Mwita Akiri We do not live in a world that allows us to confine ourselves within our own geographical, cultural and social contexts. The world we live in is a global village, and more than that, it has become a dot-com age. We have to relate with and to one another, within and outside our contexts.

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Thursday, January 16, 2014

How I Make Pastry Dough Cinnamon Bite Size Rolls...

Living from Glory to Glory Blog

This is a wonderful yummy cinnamon bite
 That you make from a pastry dough.

I like to make these when I am making pies,
Because instead of using yeast dough, you use the pastry.
I just make a double batch of my pastry dough up when
 I am going to make my pies.
 So, while I have everything out,
 I make up these yummy treats!

Or just make this dough just for the cinnamon bites!
I have sweet memories of these because
 Every time I made up my dough for baking pies,
My Children, would help me make these cinnamon bites.

I think Children love making and eating these, because
They get to help make up the dough and rolling it out and
slicing them up is their favorite part!

These are a very cute treat to use for a tea party with your
Little ones! It is fun to plan tea parties with them.
As these are times we can teach a few social graces...
Even the little boys love;
Tea Parties!

Pastry Dough
In a mixing bowl, add;
2 cups flour
3/4 tsp. Salt
2/3 cup shortening or lard or butter
(I have tried them all)
Set aside your liquid of;
1/3 cup ice water

Now, cut in your choice of above ingredient.
It should resemble clumps of dough;
Now, add your ice water and make your dough up.
These will make up enough dough for a 2 crusts pie.

Roll out your dough as for a pie, then
Spread butter on it nice and thick,

Sprinkle some brown sugar on it;
Add a little bit of white sugar if you like.
Now shake a good amount of cinnamon on it!

Now roll it up like a big log.
Slice them about 3/4 of an inch thick.
Put on a greases baking sheet.
I like mine gooey so a pat a dab of butter
On each one, and then I bake them.

350 degrees
7 to 10 min bake time.
Or until they are lightly browned.
Take  them out of the oven and remove from pan right away,
As they really stick to the pan :(

My son is 35 and he still loves these!
Happy Baking!

Now, Serve with tea or (milk) and enjoy!

  1. You are a wonderful grandmother!
    Memories are in the making with these yummy treats, especially served with tea.

  2. Yummy, yummy, yummy! I made these yesterday since my sweetie pie was home from work and we need an afternoon treat with coffee :) I like to drizzle some icing over the top for extra sweetness.

    Roxy, my dear friend, your blog looks incredibly beautiful! I absolutely love it :)

    And thank you for the many kind emails - yes, I now have Internet working and I will be emailing you soon. Much love to you!

  3. These look delicious.
    Debi @ Adorned From Above

  4. Love your new look here! Cinnamon rolls are one of the few things I have yet to master!

  5. Yum! Sounds so good Roxy. I love leftover pie crust dusted with cinnamon and sugar so I am sure I will love these! Pinning.

  6. These would be wonderful for breakfast with a cup of coffee! Thanks for sharing!

  7. Those are so much fun. I have never made those with my grandkids-I think I need to do that. Once I get my OVENS working, that is!!! xo Diana

  8. Yum they do look good. I use to make them using Nutella as my children (when they were young) loved Nutella more than cinnamon.

  9. These look delicious! Thank you for the recipe :)

  10. Roxy, I saw something like these at Christmastime and they were called "Pie Crust Cookies". I bought the Allready Pie Crusts and made them! They were so good...reminded me of when I was little and my mom did this when she made pies :) easy AND yummy!

  11. Roxy, these look delightful. What a wonderful idea. I don't know how I missed these the other day. They came and went before I could get on the computer.
    I will have to make these with Winston when he comes. Have a great week.
    Love and Blessings,

  12. Mmmm... I remember these from last year and back then they made my mouth water and right now I'm thinking I MUST make some to go with my coffee this afternoon :)

    Thank you so much for sharing at Roses of Inspiration, my friend. I'm so glad you joined the party. Thinking of you and keeping you in my prayers.

  13. Oooh...I love these, Roxy...they look SO yummy! I made a couple of batches for a cookie exchange before Christmas. I call mine Pie Crust Cookies...and I cheated a bit. I used the All Ready Pie Crust from the! My mom always made these when I was kid from the left over pie dough :) Have a blessed Tuesday

  14. These look so delicious! I can see I'll be baking at the weekend. Have a wonderful week x

I really appreciate your comments! May they be kind and helpful to encourage my walk, and bless others as they read them. Thank-you!
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Blessings, Roxy


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Brendan's Story | Submitted by Brendan MacWade

[ This entry is the first in my new journal. I haven't kept a journal in over 10 years. Back in August 1991, the world changed dramatically. A failed coup in the Soviet Union brought an end to the Soviet Empire. The Cold War ended, and the 21st Century unofficially began. I assumed I was too busy moving to college to keep a journal. I regret that decision. I would have liked to know what I was really thinking during such events as the Clearance Thomas hearings, the 1993 bombing of the WTC, and the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. And in the years 1996-2000, the US experienced an economic prosperity that was so strong, it almost seemed that it would not end. However, in September 2001, the US experienced a near-cataclysmic event. Although not entirely surprising in retrospect (as contemporary international terrorism has been around since the 1970s), the destruction of New York's World Trade Center was still the most horrifying and destructive event ever witnessed in the US since the American Civil War. It is here that I begin my journal. ]

I woke up early on September 11th. Tuesday was supposed to be the day that New Yorkers would choose who will represent the Democratic ticket in November's mayoral election. After my two cups of coffee and casual Internet surfing, I washed up, put on my best suit, and headed out around 06:30. I walked up the slope (3 blocks) and went to my local Public School to vote. I was the first to walk-in to vote within my district (as usual, it seems). Even the registration book was open to the page with my name on it. In less than 5 minutes, I was out the door.

Usually after I vote, I like to take a long walk to a subway station closer to Manhattan. So I walked from 20th Street down to 9th Street. But I was not satisfied there. It was a beautiful morning. It was the first day in months I was able to wear a suit without perspiring. The brownstones in Brooklyn looked great, the air was fresh, and the people were all out either going to vote or walking their dogs. So I walked further to Union Street, and descended into the subway there. It was a good, long walk. I just had no idea how much more walking I would do that day.

I took the N train 7 stops to Cortlandt Street / WTC. This was a 20-minute trip. What could be better than that? To live in the heart of historic, Brownstone Brooklyn, and still be close to the Wall Street area was something that I never took for granted. Again, how could I know that this proximity would also help me that day?

I ascended from the subway station and into the underground shopping plaza of the World Trade Center. From the station, the base of Tower 1 is just a little more than 150 yards straight ahead. I went to a Citibank next to Tower 1 and took out a $10 bill. I figured that's all I would need for lunch that day. Quickly I went through the turnstiles and into my elevator bank, which serves floors 33-40. I rode alone to the top -floor 40- which was Lehman Brothers IT headquarters. I may be an Assistant Vice President, but I still had the largest cubicle of any employee on the floor. This was due more to architecture rather than politics. My cubicle was directly up a ramp to the right of the reception area. Most cubicles on this floor were lined-up in rows. However my cubicle was by itself, as it sits next to the exterior wall of a conference room, which overlooks the World Financial Center and the Hudson River. Tucked into this interior corner, I had no view of the narrow, vertical windows that dominated all four exterior walls of our space (and every floor in the WTC). Lehman built this space in January, as a means to finally reward the IT Division for their tremendous work in helping the Firm to expand. It truly was the brightest and cleanest working environment I had ever been in. It was extraordinarily conducive to work. It even had a coffee and sandwich shop tucked into the employee lounge in the middle of the floorplan. People loved being on that floor. It was heaven for IT professionals. And it was one of the more secure buildings in the city, as employees needed to have both a company ID card and a Port Authority-issued ID card to gain entry.

There were fewer people than usual for 07:30. No matter. I had much to do. By 08:00 I had gotten myself a bottle of water (with a cup full of ice) and I was busy at work. I had recently discovered that ice water tends to make me feel better and work at a more brisk pace. Before I knew it, the number of phone calls to my office had picked-up a bit, and the official start of the business day was approaching. Two of my three people had already arrived for work, and they were settling down, getting breakfast, and logging into their workstations. Around 08:45, our Vice President in charge of Networking stopped by to inform me of an urgent request from our CEO for a video conferencing unit to be installed the following week - just in time for Lehman's quarterly earnings report. So another challenge was before me.
Then it all happened.

At 08:48, as I was sitting in my chair, I felt a tremendous jolt. My entire cubicle seemed to be bumped back. It was a violent motion, and I could actually sense that the floor was not level. Less than a second later, I heard a roar. It was a prolonged, and thunderous sound. I could hear this roar through the core of the building, which was to my right. At first, it seemed that this was an explosion at the ground level. But as the sound became clearer, I could sense that it was above our floor. Just as I was sensing where the sound came from, the building swayed back to its original position. This caused me to be thrown forward. My office chair literally rolled in one direction and then the opposite direction in about a 4-second span. Also, during the sway, I could hear the grinding of concrete and steel. The conference room next to my cubicle seemed to be torn to pieces. Through the wall next to my desk, I could hear the tables in the conference room becoming misaligned, and I could clearly hear windows breaking. The sounds in the next room were so strong that I ran out of my cube and into the main isle that runs from the north side of the floor to the south. As the sound of shattering glass continued and the first rumblings subsided, I looked both North and South, trying to see out the windows and also to gauge the reaction of my colleagues.

The reaction was unanimous. This was some sort of explosion. And it wasn't mechanical or electrical. This was such a violent shake, that only a bomb could have caused it, I thought. My colleagues were already in shock.

"Oh my God, what was that? What's happening?" one of our Vice Presidents shrieked.

Then it was my turn to panic. A second jolt hit as I was standing on the ramp leading down to the reception area. Again, the building leaned one way and sprang back the next. This was also accompanied by the sound of an explosion. This time, it was clearer and louder. It sounded as if something blew out of the building. I could actually sense that something had left the tower. The jolt caught me off guard, and I fell down to the carpeted floor. The building swayed at such an angle, that I was convinced that it was going to topple down. I actually got up to look out the windows - to see if the horizon was flat or not. Again, the swaying subsided. And then debris fell outside the windows. The screams on my floor became more apparent. Burning metal pieces and tons of paper were flying outside the south windows and falling to the ground below. Several people just stared out the windows, completely shocked at what they were seeing. Was this debris from the roof, or one of the floors above us? There was no way to be sure. My heart rate became fast at this point. I really thought the building was going to fall down right then and there. I was prepared to die at that moment.

Our floor's volunteer Fire Warden quickly rounded us up. I estimate that there were about 30 people on my side of our floor (there were probably more on the other side, the East side). He ordered us to line-up against the interior wall (which surrounds one of the elevator shafts of the building). But unexpectedly, I began to panic.
I began to realize that this was not a bomb. The debris flying out the window included what appeared to be painted aluminum pieces and mechanical parts. "Something hit us," I said, out of breath. "This wasn't a bomb. Something flew into us. A plane, a helicopter…. some sort of aircraft."

"Yes, Brendan," one of my colleagues said. "And we are going to be calm and get out of here."

"My God, there must be people upstairs and on the ground who are dead," I exclaimed. Debris was still falling outside the south windows.

"Brendan, I know and it sucks! But we're going to be okay if we can just walk down these stairs without any problems," she responded.

I had to remain quiet. It's not like me to panic. But then again I had never actually thought I was going to die before. I always try to emulate my British friends. Never let them see you complain; never let them see you are hurting. I began to keep that in mind. I collected myself and took a few steps back to my cubicle. I quickly grabbed my suit jacket, Blackberry (wireless e-mail device, see ), and my shoulder bag. I had a strange feeling that we weren't ever going to be allowed back into the building, so I wasn't going to leave without my communication devices: my cell phone and my Blackberry.

Back into line I went. The Fire Warden gave us the go-ahead, and we began our decent down one of three emergency stairways. The emergency stairs closest to me were opposite the reception area, so everything was close by. I went into the stairwell and joined a long line of people. We slowly walked down the stairs, in single file. With the exception of a couple of impatient people, everyone was calm. There was a feeling that the worst was over. After all, there was no smoke, the building was still standing, and we were all OK. I quickly took out my cell phone and left voice messages on both my sister's and my mother's cell phones, informing them that I was on my out of the building, and should they see any news reports, they should know that I am OK. Again, I had no idea just how bad it was upstairs.

At 08:53, I received my first e-mail on the Blackberry device. It was Chris, a colleague of mine who was running late. I thought his message was timid. It only asked, "Is everything OK? You guys all right?" I immediately responded with, "Where are you!!" Odd, I thought. Was he being timid because this wasn't so serious, or because it is very serious and he really didn't know if we were OK?

We were descending at a rate of about one floor every 40 seconds or so. It was slow going. By the time we reached floor 30, it was becoming apparent that there was a lot of dust kicked-up by the explosions. People's eyes were reddened. A minority of us was coughing. But we were making our way down. Other people were getting through to friends on their cell phones. They were reporting back that a "corporate jet" had struck our building. Just moments ago, I was discussing with some friends in the stairs about the fatal 1977 collision of a helicopter into the Pan Am Building. I was wondering just how big this "corporate jet" was. Many of us were speculating about that as we walked down the stairs. The further we walked down the stairs, the more news came in that this was a big plane. It was bigger than we first thought.

I thought more about this. A passenger jet hit us. A jet hit 1 WTC. On impulse, I typed a quick e-mail as I walked down the stairs at precisely 09:00. The e-mail was to my manager, who was in a meeting across the Hudson River in Jersey City. It read, "Do you know what hit us? We are lucky to be alive right now."

By floor 25, the dust was thicker. People began to become concerned about how bad the dust might get. At this point, we encountered the first firefighters walking up the stairs. These four men had beads of sweat on their faces and were carrying oxygen tanks, masks, and axes. We stepped aside and allowed them to pass. No words were spoken.

At 09:04, I sent a message to one of my lady friends at Lehman. She works in our Equities Division, so it might as well be a different company. I was beginning to realize just how serious this was, and I wanted to see if she was still at her desk at the World Financial Center (across the street from the WTC), watching this unfold. My message read, "A plane hit my building. I'm choking a little in here, but I'll be OK. Do you know what hit us?"

"Brendan, read the signs. When will we have a chance to open a door here?" a manager asked me.

"Floor 16 has an unlocked door," I reported.

At floor 16, the door was already open. People were stopping off at the floor to take a break from the dust. I could see that there were a few office workers still on 16. I wondered how bad this really was. I still hadn't heard any alarms or instructions over the building's PA. I was tempted to walk onto the floor for a minute or so. But a manager on that floor advised me and my colleagues to keep the door to the stairwell closed, and to keep moving. He actually said that the floor still had air conditioning, and he wanted to keep it that way. He had stayed in place since the impact and was watching television! So we moved on. By this time, there were fewer people in the stairwell with me. Many took breaks on other floors. Others went to seek stairways with less dust. Me and my colleagues stuck together. And as we reached floor 10, there was a renewed sense of urgency.

At 09:16, I received a reply from Chris. "I went back to Hoboken [New Jersey]," he wrote. "Get out of the building."

"What hit us?" I replied. There was no immediate answer.

We passed another team of firefighters walking up the stairs. Again, there were about 5 of them, and they were carrying a heavy load of tools and oxygen tanks.

At 09:18, I received a reply from Chris (I had asked him "what hit us?"). He replied:

"2 planes. One hit the first one and 10 minutes later a second plane hit the other tower. Try to get out Brendan, but do not panic."

"One hit the first one what?" I asked to myself. I was in disbelief. "Was this a freak accident or some sort of mid-air collision?" I wondered.

But there was no time to lose. I was already in the single-digit floors. Beginning on the 5th floor, water was running down the stairs. The water from the sprinklers was finally getting to us. By this point, there were very few people on the stairs. Many had taken detours. I went forward, following four of my colleagues. I picked-up the pace of my decent. My colleagues were already pulling ahead of me. I held on to both railings for support, afraid that the rushing water might knock me down the stairs.

Just then, at floor 3, there was an open door. It was the mezzanine level in the main lobby. I stepped out into the bright, sunlit space, and looked out the ground-level windows. It was then I realized just how disastrous this was. There was blood splattered on the windows overlooking the plaza. People who smoke often stand directly outside the building when they have a cigarette. There were no people there. But there was much blood on the windows. Out in the plaza between the two towers, there was flaming, metal debris and dozens of dead pigeons. The fountain and sculpture between the two towers was crushed by debris. And everything was covered in dust and paper. This was unlike anything I've ever seen. The heat from the flaming debris was intense. It was blurring the landscape outside.

Another message from Chris arrived on my device at 09:18. It read, "It must be some sort of attack. Get out of the area."

I followed my colleagues down a non-working escalator, to the lower level of the lobby. This area is the base of Tower 1 – the "ground" level. We walked past the very turnstiles I passed through earlier that morning. They were being rained-upon by sprinkler water, leaking from the ceiling above. The shopping plaza had about 1 inch of water on the floor throughout the complex. I passed through the shattered revolving doors dividing Tower 1 from the shopping plaza, and followed my co-workers through the slightly flooded area. We turned left and headed up another non-working escalator that led to Building # 5, which is the northeast corner of the World Trade Center complex. Just as I began walking up the stairs, my cell phone rang. It was my sister, returning my voice message. My sister, Alexandra, works in midtown Manhattan, for The Economist magazine. It was an odd conversation. Apparently, her colleagues were preventing her from watching the news (and for good reason, they thought I was dead!). So I told her to put the news on TV or go onto the Internet. She wouldn't believe it unless she saw it. I told her about how a jet plane hit my building, and how there have been casualties. And when I told her about seeing more dead pigeons on the ground, she became very concerned. I told her I was OK, and that I was literally walking out of the building.

Just then, a policewoman outside the complex ordered me to turn off my cell phone. I did. My colleagues and I walked across Church Street and then turned around and looked up. We saw both towers on fire. Bother towers had similar, charred, massive holes in their sides, and bright red flames were coming out of the damaged areas. It was unbelievable. How did this happen? How could two planes hit the towers? What kind of attack was this? We didn't even hear or feel the other tower get hit. We were too busy walking down the stairs. By this time, my colleagues were crying and looking at the towers in disbelief. They had their arms around one another. News photographers approached us and others to take shots of our emotional escape. We walked to the corner of Fulton and Broadway, and I saw something horrible. I clearly recognized a piece of a jet airliner's front landing gear. It was the metal flap that protects the front wheels, as well as house a headlamp. It was on the street, underneath a large pool of blood. It had obviously killed someone. There was so much blood on the street. I stopped for a moment to look at that gruesome sight, and then I moved on. Parked cars were in the middle of the Fulton street, apparently abandoned by their owners. Car windshields were shattered, and there was debris everywhere. We all moved on, heading northeast, to City hall Plaza. At 09:28, I sent the following e-mail to my manager:

"We are all at City Hall Plaza. We are OK. When you are able, go home and Marie (her partner) will meet you there later."

My boss also has a Blackberry device. But there was no response. She must have been in shock to see all of this happening from the New Jersey side of the Hudson River.

We weaved our way through the crowds. Many people were staying put, looking up at the burning towers. Others were even trying to get a closer look. But most people were trying to get away. From time to time, people behind us would run, stirring fears of a stampede. But many of us in the crowd were able to prevent that. We would yell at people, "Don't run! We're out of danger!" And that seemed to work.

"Guys," I told my female colleagues, "I think this is the end of the World Trade Center. After the fire is extinguished, they will have to dismantle the towers." They seemed to agree. From the looks of the damage, it was a total loss. The twin towers could never be repaired after sustaining such destruction. We reached the east side of City Hall, which faces the car and pedestrian ramps to the Brooklyn Bridge.

From this area, there were only two options. People could either walk to FDR drive and walk north, or they could walk east across the Brooklyn Bridge, and go to Brooklyn. Since most of us live in Brooklyn, my colleagues and I began walking towards Brooklyn Bridge. At this point we were about 1 mile from the twin towers. After avoiding emergency vehicles heading down FDR Drive and exiting the bridge, we finally made our way on to the pedestrian walkway, which spans over the center of the bridge. At 09:49, I sent an e-mail to my sister:

"I'm OK. Walking to Brooklyn via the Brooklyn Bridge."

At that point, my sister began to spread the news to the family that I was alive and well. Meanwhile, my colleagues and I, and thousands of others slowly walked across the bridge.

And then the unthinkable happened. At 09:58, there was a distant, yet giant crumbling sound. That sound became a giant roar. One friend later compared it to the sound of a sirloin steak in a frying pan. Thousands of us turned around and we saw the upper floors of Tower 2 give way, and break away from the rest of the tower. Then, almost in slow motion, the building fell straight down. Thousands of us shrieked –men and women alike. Through the haze and smoke, I could see the silhouette of the building as it seemed to become thinner and thinner, as its contents fell straight down. Finally, there was nothing left of the South Tower but a thin spine (core) of elevator shafts. And then that seemed to disintegrate. Everything shook. The Brooklyn Bridge shook, the people screamed, and the island of Manhattan seemed to quake. It was simply an awesome and terrible sight. The building seemed to peel like a banana, thin out, and then fall straight down in a massive cloud of dust and smoke. I had seen blood that morning. I had seen debris. I had felt my building sway violently to the point that I thought I was dead. But seeing Tower 2 collapse was simply the most horrifying thing I had ever seen.

The twin towers were no longer twins. There was only one tower. It was a frightening sight. So many thousands were dead, I assumed. There were so many people who couldn't escape the tower. I tried to avoid thinking about what it must have been like to be inside or close to the building, but it was unavoidable. New York had physically changed forever. Someone on the bridge then said that the Pentagon was on fire. The sky over lower Manhattan was black. And right there, at that terrifying moment, I thought it was the end of the world. It certainly seemed like it. It was something I had read and seen in Science Fiction. But this was really happening. It was like a nightmare, and I couldn't wake up from it.

At 10:08, I sent an e-mail to one of the best friends I have in New York. He was my first boss in NY, and originally from Southeast London. The message read:

"Jan, I saw the whole thing. We just lost Tower 2. Thousands and thousands are gone. Jan, is this the end?"

At 10:10, a message from my sister:

"All the airports are closed. They think there are 7 hijacked planes flying around right now. The Pentagon was hit too."

At 10:14, I replied:

"Oh my God. Suicide missions. Want to leave NY?"

Overhead, a fighter jet soared through the haze, against the darkened sky. It was the only aircraft in the air over Brooklyn. It seemed like we were suddenly at war. But who were we at war with?

I turned to Marie, one of my colleagues. I tried to help her walk as she suffered from her asthma. She was doing OK. I said to her, "Do you realize just how lucky we are to be alive?"

She tried to smile as she cried. "It just wasn't our time," she said. Quite right.

Over the next two hours, my colleagues and I slowly made our way to Brooklyn, and then walked through downtown Brooklyn to the corner of Flatbush and 4th Avenue. Now I was within 30 blocks of my apartment. There were still thousands of people, so it was a slow walk through Brooklyn. Mary, one of the co-workers with us, ran into her husband by chance. It was an emotional, bittersweet rendezvous. It was then that he told us that Tower 1 had also collapsed. We didn't hear it go down due to the crowd noise in downtown Brooklyn. With lower Manhattan clouded in blackness, we couldn't see it either. So it was official. The twin towers were no more. I received an e-mail from a friend uptown asking for a status. At 11:22 I replied:

"M, both towers are down. This is beyond comprehension."

My colleagues and I began to split up. We reached the corner of Union and 4th Avenue, the very same corner I walked to after I voted that morning. Our senior manager decided to walk back to the Long Island Rail Road station to see if she could go home. I decided to say my goodbyes as well. Home was just blocks away. Everyone exchanged phone numbers and we made our separate ways. Everyone else was going to try to take a bus. But I was close to home, so I could walk. By 12:00, I was able to make calls on my cell phone. I called my parent's home in Brockton, Massachusetts as I reached the corner of 4th Avenue and 9th Street. My father answered the phone.

"Brendan!! Am I glad to hear you," he exclaimed.

I told him about what I saw - the pieces of the second plane on Broadway; the burning towers; the collapse of Tower 2. And I told him about the thousands of people who were in sheer panic. "I am so glad you made it out," he said. "I wouldn't believe you are OK until I heard your voice." Later, he exclaimed, "This was an act of war. You are now a war veteran. Sorry to say this, pal, but I'm afraid you may be haunted by this for the rest of your life." I agreed. My father is a history professor at a local college, so I know he tries to keep things rational and in historical perspective. But he was understandably emotional. "You just experienced something bigger and more terrifying than Pearl Harbor," he said. "But right now, I'm just glad you are alive."

I stopped short of going home. Instead I went to a bar that is owned by firefighters, called "Smokey's." There, I met several people who worked either in the towers or in the area at the time of the disaster. One man, Charlie, who worked for the Industrial Bank of Japan (IBJ), told me that he walked down Tower 1 from the 47th Floor. He bought me a pint of Newcastle and we watched the live coverage of the news with about 20 other people.

"Did you feel two separate jolts?" I asked.

"Exactly right," he replied. "The building shook twice. I don't know if the second shake was a shockwave or an explosion, but it was just as strong as the first. Did you see the people jumping out of the towers?"

"Oh my God, no," I replied. "I was just trying to get far away from the building."

"Same here," he answered. "We ran down the stairs from my position. But people were cracking jokes and we assumed that the worst was over."

"We walked because there were more people on the stairs in my area," I said. "But yeah, we also assumed that the worst was over. We cracked jokes as well."

On the television, we saw the replays of the second plane diving into Tower 2 (also known as the South Tower). I couldn't believe my eyes. No wonder there was so much debris from that plane on the ground. The plane blew right through the other side of the building. It was horrifying, yet I couldn't take my eyes away from the television. I slowly began to realize just how lucky we were to be alive.

At 12:53, I sent a message to a former colleague of mine at Lehman:

"I'm in Brooklyn having a pint of ale. I'm getting the shakes now. This is just too big to comprehend. I can smell the smoke from here. The construction workers I'm drinking with felt the ground shake in Brooklyn. This is so horrible. I won't be able to sleep for days."

After another hour or so, I gave Charlie my business card (with my 1 World Trade Center address on it), and thanked him for the pint of ale. I needed it. I then walked home. When I entered my apartment, I got out of my suit, turned on the air conditioner, and then turned on the news. I was very jittery. I was very afraid. At 13:29, I sent my last e-mail from my handheld device. After that, I was unable to send or receive messages. The disaster recovery procedures at Lehman Brothers must have been initiated in our Jersey City offices. Already, my firm was making preparations to move its bond and equities traders to New Jersey. But for the time being, I was locked in Brooklyn. There was simply no way to get out of the borough. That was fine with me. I had phone calls to make. After adding a posting to the BBC News website around 15:00, I hit the phones.

So that's what I did for the remainder for the day. I called everyone who had not yet known about my fate. I called my best friend of who worked in midtown. I had met him in college 10 years ago, and now we were trying to comprehend how the world might suddenly change. I called relatively recent friends who I met earlier this year. I also called my aunt and uncle in Miami. And I called an old mentor in Los Angeles. I couldn't sit. I was too nervous to wash-up. I just couldn't believe how I was alive. I was unable to sleep until 2am that night. I was trying to avoid sleep, assuming I would have nightmares. But I experienced no nightmares. I slept until dawn, and from there, I slowly began to put my life back together as best I could. It was the end of a day that would probably change life dramatically in the US for years to come. It could very well define how I live going forward, for the rest of my life. I was very frightened. But I was alive.


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Completed: Fancy Cone Mills Ginger Jeans

9 Oct

I’ve been swimming through muslin hell this whole week (crazy me decided to even make a SECOND MUSLIN to verify all my changes, wtf who am I turning into amirite), but fortunately, I have an old make from pre-Maine that I can share with y’all! Jeans! Yay!

Cone Mills Ginger Jeans - frontCone Mills Ginger Jeans - front

Cone Mills Ginger Jeans - front

Remember when we were all scrambling around to buy those fancy Cone Mills Denim kits with our Ginger Jeans earlier this year (and last year too, for that matter)? I’m so happy that I made space in my budget for one, because Cone Mills denim is awesome. It’s the same denim they used to make Imogene + Willie jeans (which I can personally vouch for as I own 2 pairs – they wear really well and hold their shape beautifully, which means I never need to wash them in order to shrink ’em back down at the end of the day), and although the kit wasn’t cheap – it is certainly cheaper than buying the actual jeans. By the way, if you’re thinking, “Where the hell is this kit so I can buy one???” I’m sorry to be the one to tell you that they were on limited pre-order, and have been sold out for a while now 😦 Hopefully there will be more where that came from!

EDIT I have just been informed that Threadbare Fabrics sells Cone Mills Denim! Yay!! I apologize in advance for those who end up emptying their bank accounts after reading this post 🙂

Anyway, the point of that somewhat sales-y sounding paragraph was to say that I finally used one of the pieces of my denim for this pair of pants. I received the kit way back in April and have been anxious to sew it up, but I wanted to wait until it was actually something closer to pants-season before I got too excited.

Also, just a head’s up before we delve too far into this post – sorry in advance for all the weird bobble-head shots. I didn’t realize my camera was tilted so much, and I don’t care enough to retake the photos. Also, there be VPL in most of these pictures. Not sorry about that! Deal with it!

deal with it

Cone Mills Ginger Jeans - side

The denim itself is what really counts when it comes to a good pair of jeans. You want a material that is a good medium weight (not too light, but also not too heavy) and if it has stretch, an awesome recovery. The single thing that’s plagued me the most when it comes to making my own pants is finding material with a good recovery! I hate having my pants bag out by the end of the day – it’s annoying enough for every day life, and utterly useless if you’re traveling and don’t have access for a quick wash (or just plain don’t own a washer and dryer, which was totally my situation up until we moved this year!). Plus, washing denim too much can fade out the color and cause the fibers to break down faster. I like my jeans to be a really deep, dark indigo blue, so fading isn’t my first choice. Figuring out fabric recovery is really difficult to do without actually wearing the fabric – which means you have to sew it first. So whenever someone gives me a head’s up on some good stretch bottomweight, I tend to snap it up without hesitation. I knew the Cone Mills denim was good stuff, so I’m glad I was able to get my hands on some before it sold out.

Cone Mills Ginger Jeans - back

This certainly is not my first pair of Ginger Jeans – I’ve made a classic indigo denim pair, a red cotton twill pair, a gold denim pair, a version of jeggings and shorts version. What can I say – when I like a pattern, I tend to stick with it 🙂 And I REALLY like this pattern – it’s a nice, classic jeans pattern with all the good details you see in store-bought jeans, minus the shitty denim and strange fitting issues.

Having made this pattern numerous times made me feel confident enough to break into my mega-expensive denim for the pair you see here. I knew I already had the fit pretty good, so I could focus more on visual details with this version. That being said, there are a few changes to this pair that aren’t evident in my previous makes.

Cone Mills Ginger Jeans - front

The biggest change is that I went up one size, to a 4. While I like the fit of the 2 (all my other Gingers are 2s, fyi!), I’ve gained a little bit of weight over the summer and I got this weird paranoia that I was in denial about my size. Those 2s are great and super comfortable, but the legs are so tight that they look painted on. I was horrified at the thought of people thinking I was trying to squeeze into a too-small size, so I went up to the next size. I think the 4 definitely fits better, but the are a little different. Namely – those wrinkles at the knee. What is the deal with those? The calves aren’t too tight (they are looser than the tightness on my 2s, and my 2s don’t wrinkle like that), so that’s not the issue. Maybe they’re too loose at the knee and need to be taken in a bit? Thoughts? Btw, the wrinkles look worse in photos than they do in real life!

Cone Mills Ginger Jeans - side

Cone Mills Ginger Jeans - back

Since I was going up one size and I don’t trace, I had to reprint the pattern. I know Heather updated the Ginger jeans pattern at some point last year, and I had both an original version (that I got when it was first released) and an updated version (that came with my purchased denim kit). I printed the new version so I could try it and compare to the original one. I don’t recall exactly what changes were made to the jeans, but there are some slight differences in the rise and the shaping around the crotch and hips. The waist is definitely a lot higher than it is in the original version – and this was after I shortened the crotch. The major difference in the updated version is the pocket bags – instead of normal jeans pocket bags, there is a drafted pocket stay (also called an instant tummy tuck).

Cone Mills Ginger Jeans

With a pocket stay, the pocket bags go all the way across the front into the fly. This helps pull everything in and give you a smooth line in the front (hence the tummy tuck name). I wasn’t sure if it would be comfortable, but I tried it anyway and I’m glad that I did! I don’t care about smooth lines or whatever (I mean, c’mon, I’m basically always rocking dem VPLs. Death to thongs!), but what I do love is that the pockets stay in place when you pull your pants on. You know how tight pants always have to get the pockets shoved back down after you go to the bathroom? Not with these babies! Plus, since the pocketing isn’t folded over anywhere, there isn’t a weird bump at the coin pocket. I never was a fan of that.

Damn, shoulda pressed those insides before taking the photo. That fly shield wrinkle looks awful.

Cone Mills Ginger Jeans - front

Cone Mills Ginger Jeans - side

Cone Mills Ginger Jeans - side

Cone Mills Ginger Jeans - back

All the topstitching and jeans-y details are what really made these fun to sew up! I just love the way jeans topstitching thread looks when sewn up against denim, so good. I kept my I+W jeans on hand and used their stitching colors as inspiration for this pair (here’s an old post where I took close-ups of the jeans right after I bought them, if you’re curious). The kits came with the zipper, button, rivets, copper topstitching thread and denim needles. However, you can buy all that stuff individually as well – Taylor Tailor has most of it in his supply shop for really reasonable prices. I did buy the orange topstitching thread from Taylor Tailor, which I think looks awesome next to the gold topstitching.

Now that I’ve overloaded you with pictures of my butt and crotch, here are some flat jeans shots.

Cone Mills Ginger Jeans

Cone Mills Ginger Jeans

As you can see, I used the orange topstitching thread pretty sparingly – just for the bartacks and belt loops. I can’t say I thought of this myself, as I pulled the inspo straight from my I+W jeans. They also use a third topstitching color in the second line of stitching, which is not something I did with this pair. Also note that the I+W jeans don’t use rivets, but I did use them here. I love hammering those things in and I think they really finish off the jeans nicely. I just kept them on the front pockets and coin pocket – I don’t like the look of rivets on the back pockets.

Cone Mills Ginger Jeans

Cone Mills Ginger Jeans

Cone Mills Ginger Jeans

Again, using my I+W jeans as inspiration – I flat-felled only the back yoke seam, and serged + topstiched the leg seams (this will make it way easier to take in the legs if I need to, so yay!). I used orange thread in my serger, which mimics the orange bartacks. I LOVE the way it looks!

Cone Mills Ginger Jeans

Cone Mills Ginger Jeans

Whew! Sorry about all that cat hair!

Cone Mills Ginger Jeans

This is my absolute favorite little detail of these pants – the side leg bartack is a little L for Lauren 🙂 On my I+W jeans, they have a little + sign on one leg in place of a bartack, and I thought, hey I can do that with an L. It’s only on one side, and it’s quite subtle unless you already know it’s there.

Cone Mills Ginger Jeans - side

Welp, that ended up being a super long post! Do you see now why I love making jeans so much? All the little details are so fun and make the end result look extremely professional. Not to mention, all the customization options – from fit, to denim, to topstitching details. I’m so glad Heather released the Ginger pattern and I’m even happier than we were able to get some of that fancy-ass denim to make it up with! I still have one more piece for one more pair of jeans – and I’m thinking I might do the low-rise version next. Could be fun!

70 Responses to “Completed: Fancy Cone Mills Ginger Jeans”

  1. LinB October 9, 2015 at 10:02 am #

    Thanks for supporting the economy of my home town! For a long time, 90% of the denim woven in the world was made by Cone Mills, and most of that was made in Greensboro, North Carolina. I grew up using their products, both in Wrangler rtw jeans (also headquartered here) and in sewing my own denim lovelies. (I came of age in the 1970s. It was a denim world, back then.)

    Those knee wrinkles may be due to the weight of the denim. Unless you do not plan ever to move while wearing those jeans, you hem to give your pant legs enough length to accommodate the bending of your knees when you walk, or squat, or sit. Heavier denim has a better “memory” for those bends; and that little bit of extra length tends to creep upwards just enough to wrinkle around your knees. It’s too heavy to creep up to the top of your thigh, and not heavy enough to fall back down around your ankles. Wider legged pants don’t act like this, because there’s enough horizontal ease to prevent the creeping.

    • LLADYBIRD October 9, 2015 at 10:09 am #

      It’s such a shame that they don’t continue to produce most of the denim used… it’s SUCH good stuff and so lovely to wear!! I’m just happy that I was able to get my hands on some for sewing 🙂

      That was one thing I considered regarding the wrinkles – the denim weight and recovery. However, neither of my I+W jeans have the wrinkles, so I wasn’t sure what to make of it. Those jeans are a little tighter around the knee, though, so that’s probably why.

  2. Judith Forbes October 9, 2015 at 10:07 am #

    I do love your blog. Would like to know which sewing machine you use to stop stitch on the jeans. Thanks for responding,Judy

    • LLADYBIRD October 9, 2015 at 10:11 am #

      I use two machines to sew jeans (three if you count my serger) – the piecing is done on a Pfaff 7570, and the topstitching is with my Bernina 350PE. You don’t necessarily need two separate machines, but it is helpful to not have to change the thread out over and over! Also, most home machines can handle denim (even the inexpensive machines). Just make sure you use a proper denim needle and go slowly over bulky seams. Pounding them flat with a hammer helps, too 🙂

  3. Jenny Cashmerette October 9, 2015 at 10:09 am #

    GORGEOUSLADYJEANS. I can second the motion that cone denim is THE BEST. The jeans I’ve made with it are so much better than anything else I’ve used.

    Also, I’m not quite sure: should I be dealing it? Or not? I’m confused.

  4. Abbey (abbeydabbles) October 9, 2015 at 10:28 am #

    I love seeing all your Gingers!!! Another awesome pair!

    • LLADYBIRD October 9, 2015 at 3:40 pm #

      Thank you! I love making them, so there’s more where that came from 😉

  5. Miss Celie October 9, 2015 at 11:22 am #

    I really lurv this pair. For your rivets, do you not need ‘spacers’? I found with mine (not from the TT shop) that I needed another piece of fabric in between them otherwise they punched right through.

    • Hailey U. October 9, 2015 at 1:26 pm #

      I ended up trimming my rivets down with wire cutters, after much debate, and to my relief it turned out great!

    • LLADYBIRD October 9, 2015 at 3:41 pm #

      I haven’t with any of the pairs I’ve made; the thickness of the denim is perfect for the length of the rivets. However, one of the girls in my retreat made jeans and we found out that we needed to cut a LOT of the rivet off before it stopped punching through the fabric. She used the same kit I had, so I dunno!

  6. thesewingmiserablist October 9, 2015 at 11:31 am #

    Fabulous jeans. Those knee wrinkles might be down to inward knees. Ask me how I know! You need a slightly longer inseam from crotch to knee. Cation Designs did a great blog a few years back about the adjustment. It’s also called a knock-kneed adjustment. Ha! Unless you did that already?

    • LLADYBIRD October 9, 2015 at 3:42 pm #

      All my googling led me to a knock-knee adjustment, but I’m skeptical because this pair of jeans is literally the ONLY time I’ve had this problem. Even earlier versions of this pattern – not to mention other patterns and RTW from various brands – didn’t have the knee wrinkles. So I’m not sure if that’s the answer here!

      • Nyssa Jayne October 11, 2015 at 4:38 pm #

        It may be apparent on this pair because i imagine the length of the inseam was slightly longer than the size 2? This would put the knees further down the inseam, if that makes sense? I always try to shorten trousers above and below the knee when making from scratch for that reason.

        The jeans look great though, that’s a fantastic colour!

  7. Hailey U. October 9, 2015 at 1:29 pm #

    These look great! I just finished my first pair of Gingers and am really debating going down a size on my next pair because they stretch out pretty bad by the middle of day three, but maybe with the Cone Mill denim which I bought this week I should just trust the recommended sizing.

    • LLADYBIRD October 9, 2015 at 3:44 pm #

      I would trust the recommended sizing for your next pair! Cone Mills should hold it’s shape pretty well. My I+W jeans get washed like twice a year, and they don’t bag out at all (or smell, for that matter! haha!).

  8. Nicole Morgan October 9, 2015 at 1:46 pm #

    Dude, have no fear, there is more Cone Mills denim! Katie from Handmade Threads just opened an online fabric shop called Threadbare Fabrics ( and she’s selling Cone Mills denim!

    • Hailey U. October 9, 2015 at 2:02 pm #

      My first order just arrived, moments ago!!!!!

    • LLADYBIRD October 9, 2015 at 3:44 pm #

      Ahhhh, so good to know!!!

  9. ellegeemakes October 9, 2015 at 2:24 pm #

    Another pair of awesome jeans! They’re so yummy, I’m going to have to score some great denim for myself! Your topstitching is Purr-fect too!

    • LLADYBIRD October 9, 2015 at 3:46 pm #

      Thank you! I owe it all to my awesome sewing machine feet – the 1/4″ foot and the edgestitching foot 🙂

  10. misssockssewist October 9, 2015 at 2:26 pm #

    They are lovely. Nice shade of blue. Perhaps the problem is the wider leg-the tighter ones will have clung more round the ankle and not been able to ride up as much?

    • LLADYBIRD October 9, 2015 at 3:48 pm #

      That’s a possibility! Although the I+W jeans aren’t as tight in the calf, and they don’t ride up either. IT IS A MYSTERY.

  11. Catherine Fowler October 9, 2015 at 2:42 pm #

    I have no problem being in sales mode. Hands down, my two pairs of Gingers from the Cone denim kits are the best jeans I have ever had. Love the denim, love the pattern, love that I don’t have waist gaps like I almost always have in RTW and love that they are made by me and for me. Third fav is my I & W jeans that I bought last year while in Nashville. Even old gals like me love good jeans.

    • LLADYBIRD October 9, 2015 at 3:49 pm #

      Yay for Cone Mills! It seriously is the best denim. I would be hard-pressed to find something better (and yes, that is a challenge haha)

  12. Katie // Handmade Threads October 9, 2015 at 2:56 pm #

    Hi Lauren!!

    Your jeans look awesome, and I know what it’s like to cut into the kit denim for the first time – so exciting!! I also love the different colored bar tacks – I figure that’s a good way to use pink topstitching thread that I have, without being too nuts.

    And Nicole above already said it, but I loved the Cone Mills denim so much that I’m now selling it ( – with continuous stock of 11.5oz S-Gene, 9oz S-Gene, and two others. Sorry for the sales pitch, but Cone Mills denim is available to us again! 😀

    • LLADYBIRD October 9, 2015 at 3:50 pm #

      Such awesome news! I will definitely have to give you a holler when my supply runs out – lord knows I can never have enough pairs of jeans 🙂 Thanks for the head’s up!!

    • Catherine Fowler October 9, 2015 at 4:55 pm #

      Thanks for the pitch! World would not know about this without (and many other things) without a few good sales folks. Already ordered!

  13. Tasha @ By Gum, By Golly October 9, 2015 at 4:04 pm #

    Yaaas, cone mill!! They look awesome, of course. I haven’t broken into mine yet. I’m pretty sure I want to make one more pair to work on tweaks before I commit to my cone mill kit (tragically I’ve discovered many months later the cheapo denim on my first pair was actually pretty damn awesome in its own right and has worn great, only to not be able to repurchase it *cries*), but I can’t wait until I do! And SUPER pumped you shared about Threadbare Fabrics, yee haw!

    • LLADYBIRD October 9, 2015 at 5:28 pm #

      Oh yeah, I hate it when you realize your cheapo denim is actually pretty awesome after it becomes too late to buy more! I wish I’d done that with some of the black twill I made my Jamie jeans out of. Oh well! At least we will now always have Cone Mills ♥ haha!

  14. Alicia October 9, 2015 at 4:22 pm #

    Hey! I just looked at my I + W jeans and my 3rd color for bar tacks and belt loop tacks is a deep deep hunter green that is a little more grey. That color combo looks spicy too if you want other ideas. Boss jeans Lauren!

    • LLADYBIRD October 9, 2015 at 5:31 pm #

      Yep, mine are the same! The green bartacks are what gave me inspiration to do mine a different color. Love them:D

  15. Mustavo October 9, 2015 at 4:40 pm #

    Still sewing with your hair.

    • LLADYBIRD October 9, 2015 at 5:31 pm #

      Clearly it’s my favorite color 😉

      • LLADYBIRD October 9, 2015 at 5:32 pm #

        Also, I’m in the process of sewing a denim jacket, soo…. expect more hair sewing where that came from, I guess 🙂 haha!

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  17. Staci Flowers Carpenter October 9, 2015 at 4:53 pm #

    They look so good! It was so cool to see and get my hands on cone mills denim at the retreat. I’ve been on the hunt for some since we got back. I love my gingers but the jean material, even from mood, just doesn’t hold its shape at all. I did notice that Taylor is selling denim in his shop too. He’s got the dark indigo that is so nice with the red line selvedge 🙂

    Link to his shop for the denim:

    Taylor’s is the 13.5 oz 100% cotton for anyone who’s interested.

    • LLADYBIRD October 9, 2015 at 5:34 pm #

      Dunno if you saw the update, but Threadbare Fabrics sells Cone Mills! Now you can get you some, too! 😀

      Taylor does sell Cone Mills, but it’s the rigid/selvedge denim, not stretch. The Ginger jeans pattern is designed for stretch, so if you decide to go with his denim, make sure you adjust the pattern accordingly. Personally, I like a little stretch in my pants 🙂

      • Staci Flowers Carpenter October 14, 2015 at 3:45 pm #

        Awesome! I will defintely check Threadbare out. I like a little stretch too and was wondering about the 13.5 oz. Seemed a bit heavy to me. Thanks so much Lauren!

  18. gingermakes October 9, 2015 at 6:12 pm #

    These look great! I love the orange topstitching- so fun!

    • LLADYBIRD October 12, 2015 at 8:59 am #

      Thanks! The orange topstitching is definitely my favorite part 😀

  19. Lodi Srygley October 10, 2015 at 1:21 am #

    Now I find out about the hammer! Lodi

    • LLADYBIRD October 12, 2015 at 9:01 am #

      Oh yeah! Always need a hammer laying around when sewing denim 😀 haha!

  20. Crafty Clyde (@craftyclyde) October 10, 2015 at 2:25 am #

    They look fantastic 🙂 I’ve always fancied trying to make jeans, I’ve had the ginger pattern sitting in my sewing room for ages but not dared yet. The denim looks great – very talented X

    • LLADYBIRD October 12, 2015 at 9:02 am #

      Thank you! I think you should give the pattern a whirl – it’s surprisingly a lot easier than you’d think, and the instructions are super helpful 🙂

  21. Casey Maura October 10, 2015 at 7:44 am #

    Seriously digging how awesome these jeans look! But man–I’ve got the Ginger pattern on my to-sew list for this fall, and now I’m itching to go download it and get started. 😉 (I really need to finish the two tops I’m making right now before I get totally distracted though. Blah.) I have really struggled with finding good jeans at a reasonable price, and am hoping I can work out the fitting of the Gingers so I can eventually splurge on some Cone Mills. That stuff looks amazing!

    • LLADYBIRD October 12, 2015 at 9:04 am #

      Yeah, good jeans are difficult to find these days! Which is why I’d rather make them, but finding good fabric can also be tricky! I always feel like I hit the jackpot when I get a good piece (and then pissed at myself for not buying more of it hahaha). Plus, they are super fun to make, so it’s a win/win all around 🙂

  22. Leigh October 10, 2015 at 3:42 pm #

    These look so great! I am very new to sewing, so fear that jeans may be a little ambitious for me just yet, but I am so inspired by your post! I recently discovered Hudson jeans, but they’re kind of pricey here, so I just have one pair that I wear almost daily. If I could make jeans myself I would be one happy girl!

    I shall file this post away for future reference. Sure hope postage of that lovely denim isn’t too crazy to Australia!

    • LLADYBIRD October 12, 2015 at 9:05 am #

      Hey now, ain’t no shame in wearing the same pair of jeans daily. If they work for you (and ESPECIALLY if you dumped a lot of money into buying them!), then let them do the work!! 🙂 But yeah, being able to make them is pretty nice too! 🙂

  23. hashigal October 10, 2015 at 5:46 pm #

    Hey, La-La-Lladybird Lauren, what pattern is that top? Nice work on the stripe matching, btw.

    • LLADYBIRD October 12, 2015 at 9:06 am #

      It’s a mash of patterns I put together to get the perfect shape/length/neckline 🙂 I wrote a blog post about it here.

  24. Lodi Srygley October 11, 2015 at 3:27 am #

    Is your Cone denim stretch? (I see that only the black is stretch is now available.)

    • LLADYBIRD October 12, 2015 at 9:08 am #

      Yes, the Ginger pattern calls for stretch denim only. Otherwise, you’ll need to go up a size or two to be able to fit into them!

  25. Ruth October 11, 2015 at 5:14 pm #

    Hey! Awesome Jeans! I have bought the Ginger Jeans pattern, but have yet to dive into it. They seem to work for everyone.
    Anyhow, have you ever listened to the podcast Thread Cult? There is a whole episode on jeans with Angela Wolf. She talks about buying Jean & how to determine whether it will bag etc. I haven’t looked her up, but it seems that she has a lot of advice about making jeans. (Her first pair took her 12 Muslins.)

    • LLADYBIRD October 12, 2015 at 9:08 am #

      Nope, but you’ve just given me a new podcast to add to my playlist!! Thank you! I’ll definitely check it out 🙂

  26. Sandra October 12, 2015 at 4:00 am #

    I had the same issue on the knees with my second pair. I made all the pattern in size 8 (according to my measurements) but my legs seemed to be skinnier. For my third version I made a size 8 for hips and waist and a 6 for the legs. I shortened the back leg to remove all the pleats at the back calf. As a result, the leg is skinnier and the knee is smoother.
    When I look at your photos, I have the impression that you have a little excess of fabric at the back leg 😉 Sway back mysteries ! I have the same here 🙂

    • LLADYBIRD October 12, 2015 at 9:12 am #

      There is definitely some excess in the back leg of my jeans! What is weird about it is that I’ve never had that problem with any other pair of pants (whether RTW, or a different pattern, or even this SAME pattern sewn in a different size! I tried on a bunch of my pants to figure out if maybe I was crazy and this was an ongoing issue that I never noticed). So I guess it’s specific to only this size? Sway back mysteries indeed, wtf! 🙂

      • Sandra October 13, 2015 at 3:55 am #

        Personnally, I have this issue on RTW, my back leg looks like a “saucisson” (dried sausage) under the bottom and in the mid calf xD, this is why I decided to make my own. I really think that stretch fabric doesn’t react the same way if it is stretched or not. I don’t know if I express correctly my idea but if I compare my first (size 6 everywhere : and the second (size 8 everywhere, this one is awfuuuul !!), I have more pleats with the biggest one. So you have 2 kind of pleats : those created by using a too small size (small pleats but long, very tight and horizontal), and those created by and excess of fabric (more curved and bigger).
        But when I decided to modify the back calf in height (not in width), it had a consequence on these pleats (even if they were horizontal, it can be a vertical problem). Anyway, reducing the back leg length solved the problem on the knee pleats, yeh !
        Heather told me not to focuse on the under seat pleats. On skinny jeans, I’ll always have some. Making them disappear shouldn’t become an obsession or a sewing quest 😀
        Sway back mysteries : my body measurements called for a size 42 for the Brume skirt of Deer and Doe, it was way too big, I made it in size 38…I think I need a fitting class xD

  27. redflaminghair October 12, 2015 at 4:43 am #

    Looks awesome!! Great work, I love your blog so much, you are really talented 🙂

    I haven’t tried to sew jeans yet, I think I’ll have to practice a lot before sailing to the trousers and jeans islands… 🙂 Cheers!

  28. Alyson Ray October 26, 2017 at 5:28 pm #

    Your posts are so helpful!!! I finally took the plunge and made a pair of Ginger mid rise jeans!
    I use the Cone Mills stretch 9.5oz from Threadbare. I love them! Made a straight 6 but shorten the length by 3 inches. My only issue is that they are tight in my calves. I have several RTW skinny jeans and have never had this problem. I use the shorten/lengthen line to shorten and just wondered if that something to do with calf? That being said…I am so happy with the waist, crotch and all that hard stuff. But, do you have any suggestions for my next jeans adventure. I love the Cone Mills, but wondered if I needed a denim with more stretch? And…I still want to take a jeans class from you!!! Thanks again for all you do for the sewing community! Alyson Ray

    • LLADYBIRD October 27, 2017 at 8:59 am #

      Hello! I had the same issue with my jeans – the calves are too tight (and having taught many, many people how to make these jeans – this is not an uncommon problem). What you need to do is add some room to the calf on the flat pattern. I wrote about it in this post, but you are basically doing a slash and spread adjustment to one section of the back leg, kind of like an FBA for your calves.

      And yes, you should take a jeans class 🙂 We have SO MUCH FUN those weekends haha! 🙂

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    […] the list as far as what impresses people the most😉 You can see my Gingers here – skinnies, Cone Mills 1, Cone Mills 2, gold denim, red stretch twill, and Jorts! The pattern that goes on forever, […]

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Locutus 2019-12-09T08:22:50.581Z https://locutus.io/ Kevin van Zonneveld Hexo php.js is Dead - Long Live Locutus https://locutus.io/2016/05/announcing-locutus/ 2016-05-02T00:00:00.000Z 2019-12-09T08:22:50.581Z As was briefly mentioned in Breaking Backwards Compatibility, I am launching a big iteration of php.js today. It includes so many breaking changes that it is safe to say that, after 9 years, php.js is dead. And, like a phoenix, Locutus has risen from its ashes.

Locutus will largely have the same mission:

Offer a community platform to collaborate on JavaScript counterparts to functions from other languages, for fun and educational purposes.

Locutus will, however, also be different on a few key points. Locutus will focus on:

  • Expanding to other languages, such as C, Go, Python and Ruby
  • Hack-free porting, meaning we will only port individual functions from the standard libraries, while avoiding language features, environment, data-types and configuration
  • The educational aspect and the intellectual challenge
  • Using npm as the distribution platform of choice, so you can do var strings = require('golang/strings') and, in case the browser is your target platform, bundle this via Browserify, rollup.js or webpack.
  • Trying to deliver functions that are interoperable between browsers and Node.js, but also allowing to target just one platform when that saves us from writing overly wieldy code. These cases will be documented with a note. An example of this would be opening a file from disk. We would then state it is Node.js-only.

While it is still very much a work in progress, I have already deprecated and updated many functions that did not adhere to this renewed focus. If you spot a function I overlooked, please let me know on GitHub.

I feel these changes were needed to regain the motivation required for leading this project. For a long time, I have struggled with php.js in its old form. I rarely did maintenance runs anymore and when I did, it was guilt-driven rather than out of curiosity or excitement - the things that led me to start this project.

There are several reasons why I had lost my intrinsic motivation:

  • The things that could reasonably be ported, had already been ported. The things that probably should not have been ported, had been ported too - and were now mostly good for provoking purists and inducing maintenance load. Not very rewarding.
  • Misuse of the project. I shed approximately 451 tears when some people started using the project so they would not have to learn JavaScript and could continue PHP-ing in the browser, using 2.1MB, 451-function, ready-to-rock spaceship bundles in the browser. I made efforts to stop newcomers from doing that. I shed approximately 2.1 tears from the angry notes they then sent me.
  • I started a new company and protocol, which took much time by itself, but also meant I spent my time writing exclusively in other programming languages. You won’t find any bitterness about that here, but it did mean I had less time and use for PHP oriented projects
  • 9 years ago, the tech world was a different place. Node.js did not exist, everyone was on IE6, and JavaScript’s main use was opening popups. Going from age 23 to 32, I have changed my stance on pretty much everything. One of these things that I have now abandoned is the idea that our project could perhaps one day be used as an interactive debugging tool, or run entire scripts from other languages in Node. I pursued that goal for some time with the thirst of a youngster, and while we had some success doing so, it drove me to write and accept hacks that, in retrospect, have probably secured me a special place in hell. Projects like GopherJS or Emscripten offer far better means to that end. Our approach isn’t suitable for it.

Knowing that I was beginning to fall short as a project lead, I tried to recruit fresh blood to replace me. However, even though there is still an active community of contributors, I couldn’t find any volunteers for taking the lead. For a while, I considered declaring [UNMAINTAINED], but I felt - and still feel - too great a deal of duty and responsibility towards past and present contributors.

So instead, I started thinking about what it would take for me to get my mojo back. Having analyzed what had crippled it over the past 9 years, I decided to make the changes that would allow it to flow back again.

If you are interested in the nuts and bolts, these are a few things I have been secretly working on in order to clean up our codebase and breathe new life into this project. I have:

  • Added (generated) Mocha tests for every function, instead of our own test framework
  • Added a $global that works in both Browsers and Node.js (we should try to avoid this when we can though)
  • Added a CONTRIBUTORS guide as well as New Issue and Pull Request templates, so we can be more efficient using GitHub
  • Added native JSON, base64, sha1 and md5 support where available
  • Added npm versioning and releases
  • Added support for ES6, any function can be written in this JavaScript version and it will be transpiled to ES5 before we publish to npm to ensure compatability.
  • Asked Troy Dodd if we could use his stunning Locutus artwork to be our avatar (and he said yes!)
  • Assimilated a dozen of example functions that showcase how we could port four new languages to JavaScript
  • Changed all functions to make them adhere to the JavaScript Standard Style and have a max line length of 100. Travis CI will fail when new additions do not adhere
  • Deprecated/documented all functions using eval, new Function and other bad practices
  • Fixed around 50 failed tests that were previously marked as skipped (still a few to go)
  • Made it so that all functions can be required individually via npm
  • Made it so that dependencies between functions are now handled via CommonJS require
  • Moved the website from Jekyll to Hexo, so that we lose a Ruby dependency and everything needed to work on the website can be npm installed
  • Refactored the utility class
  • Removed _workbench and _experimental folders. They are available for reference in 1.3.2, but making them harder to find for newcomers should help avoid complaints and confusion. If you want to experiment, we can use local files or branches when it’s time to collaborate.

I understand this all can feel like a radical shift, since functions have different locations and there is talk of deprecating functions. Perhaps you wrote these functions with your own blood, sweat and tears. To make matters worse, I will also be deprecating many GitHub Issues and Pull Requests that have become invalid due to this new major push.

I hope you can agree that this project found itself in a dead-end street and that I had to undo some of our work to back out and get us on the road again. I am doing this not to hurt past contributors, but to honor them. I have spent many nights and weekends modernizing this project, so that our work could be given new life. I would also like to voice a word of appreciation to you as a contributor, for the hard work that went into crafting this project. Rewriting a language in another language is no small task, and people tend to forget that in order to port an alien language to JavaScript, we had to write a lot of JavaScript.

In failing to restrain myself and having tried to port the entire language, I may have ventured into the darker engineering arts. And in the end, it did not even let me fully realize my goal in return. I accept defeat here. However, I am also proud that we have built a welcoming and friendly community together where over the course of 9 years, hundreds of developers from all over the world have helped each other to improve their code, to learn JavaScript, and help others learn it. I, for one, have become much more familiar with JavaScript’s delicacies because of it, and I like to think the same goes for many of you as well. Therefore, I accept both defeat and victory.

As a contributor to this project, I hope Locutus brings the changes that can spark your interest again, just as it has for me. I hope you will join me on this new adventure to a magical land of standard libraries full of functions that are just screaming to be ported. I am looking at you, rainy Sunday afternoon..

This time we will be a little bit older, a little bit wiser, and hopefully have the resolve to steer clear of the darker areas. Nevertheless, we will have just as much fun in challenging ourselves and each other, as well as by learning other languages. I promise! : )

For those that can forgive me for my past mistakes and for deprecating some of our previous work in this new major release: you can try Locutus right now if you want:

$ npm init
$ npm install locutus
$ vim index.js
var echo = require('locutus/php/strings/echo')
var capwords = require('locutus/python/string/capwords')
var strings = require('locutus/golang/strings')
var rubyMath = require('locutus/ruby/Math')
var c = require('locutus/c')

echo(strings.Contains('Locutus', 'us'))
$ node index.js

If you want to help Locutus, our newly added languages don’t have much meat on the bones yet and it would be fantastic to see if you can think of ways to assimilate a function that Locutus currently does not harbor.

Also, there are plenty project-wide ideas in our Backlog that we would love help with, so I guess there is just one thing left to say..

To the GitHubs!

As was briefly mentioned in Breaking Backwards Compatibility, I am launching a big iteration
Breaking Backwards Compatibility https://locutus.io/2016/04/breaking-bc/ 2016-04-20T00:00:00.000Z 2019-12-09T08:22:50.581Z Hi all,

I’m planning to push out a big release soon that will change a lot of things about this project.

Among things, it will:

  • Offer a platform to learn other languages besides PHP
  • Be focussed on npm as the main distribution platform, so you can var sprintf = require('string/sprintf') (and use Browserify, Rollup, or Webpack on that if the browser is your target)
  • Deprecate functions that were desperately trying to mimic PHP, yet never really succeeding

The old version will remain available as v1.3.2.

I certainly hope you are not using this project like so:

as that is asking for BC breakage as well as impolite towards GitHub, but if you are, you should change your links to

until you can figure out how to vendor in that function and host it yourself.

If you are using the project via npm, the old version will be available under the 1.3.2 package version.

If you are using it via Git, use git checkout v1.3.2.

The new version will be available as v2.0.2, as well as master by the time I launch. I’m not sure yet when that will be, but I thought it might save some headaches to already give the heads up about this.

Stay tuned for more,

Hi all,

I’m planning to push out a big release soon that will change a lot of things about this project.

Among things, it w
Switching to Jekyll https://locutus.io/2016/04/jekyll/ 2016-04-02T00:00:00.000Z 2019-12-09T08:22:50.581Z Hi all,

Four years ago we switched from a PHP generated site to one built in Octopress, so it would be easier for people to contribute, and we would not have to worry about keeping servers online.

Things have changed since then. The Octopress version we used is no longer supported, and the new 3.0 is leans heavily on Jekyll.

With the backing of GitHub for GitHub Pages, Jekyll itself has improved tremendously.

Combined, I felt we reached the tipping point where it made more sense to port things to Jekyll so we can profit from their speed of development, ecosystem, and the fact that many developers are already familiar with it.

Long story short, I just completed the migration, and if you want to work on the website, here’s what you’d do.

Jekyll runs on Ruby, so make sure you have that installed, preferably with a working version of bundler. The rest of the site-building dependencies are node-based, so make sure you have a working npm as well.

To install the dependencies:

npm install
npm run website:install

To start a local version of the website and open a browser that will auto-refresh on changes, type:

npm run website:start

Now hack on the files in the ./website folder, until you’re happy with the local results. Commit the changes to Git or send in a PR if you don’t have write access to the repository. This means the sources are saved, but someone with write access still needs to deploy.

To do that, type:

npm run website:deploy

That’s it : )

P.S. We have a few custom build steps such as rendering the functions, that make it hard for us to only use the GitHub Pages provided Jekyll, this means for the time being we’ll be relying on our own scripts and Jekyll version. That said, it’s still possible to orchestrate auto-deploys whenever there’s a change to master, by using Travis CI and encrypted environment keys. If I have time, I’d like to set this up too. This way people could propose changes, and merging them would be enough to see them go live.

Best wishes,

Hi all,

Four years ago we switched from a PHP generated site to one built
Standard Coding Style https://locutus.io/2016/04/standard-coding-style/ 2016-04-01T00:00:00.000Z 2019-12-09T08:22:50.581Z Three years ago we switched from our own home-brown coding style convention to Felix’ Node.js Style Guide, for reasons outlined in the introductory post: Coding Style.

The reasoning behind adopting such a widely supported coding style, has not changed. Locutus should be focused on its added value, and less so arguing about, and inventing custom conventions around coding style.

What has changed a great deal though, is the JavaScript landscape. A large part of the community is gathering behind Feross Aboukhadijeh’s JavaScript Standard Style and ESLint.

Standard offers sensible defaults (no semicolons might take some getting used to but it’s really ok and after two weeks you won’t look back). ESLint offers powerful ways to enforce the standard.

ESLint for instance, offers a --fix command-line argument flag, that converts non-conforming codebases to whichever coding style convention was selected.

The auto-fixing does not cover all rules yet, but it’s getting better every month. As we upgrade these modules and fix our codebase, more and more legacy will conform.

Additionally, I’ve added non-fatal linting to our Travis CI builds, so you can see which functions don’t comply, and make them.

Locutus does few naughty tricks to bend the laws of physics and overcome a few obstacles in porting programming languages. For this reason, Locutus a few exceptions listed in .eslintrc. As a goal for the future, it would be interesting to see if we could lose these exceptions.

Best wishes,

Three years ago we switched from our own home-brown coding style convention to Felix’ Node.js Style Guide, for reasons outlined in the i
Coding Style https://locutus.io/2013/05/coding-style/ 2013-05-04T00:00:00.000Z 2019-12-09T08:22:50.581Z Given the focus of Locutus I think we should re-invent as few wheels as possible and make use of sensible tools and standards that are other people have already invested a great deal of time in to get right.

In this light, I’ve decided to adopt Felix’ Node.js Style Guide for coding standards, instead of running our own.

It saves us time maintaining and it becomes easier for people to contribute because they don’t have to memorize where Locutus diverges.

For the big parts our codebase is already compatible with it, so we won’t get any weird space + tab indentations as a result, as we start adding code that follows the guide.

Going forward, contributions should comply with these conventions before being merged in.

Best wishes,

Given the focus of Locutus I think we should re-invent as few wheels as po
A Word on the Focus of php.js https://locutus.io/2013/05/a-word-on-the-focus-of-php-dot-js/ 2013-05-03T00:00:00.000Z 2019-12-09T08:22:50.581Z Hi everybody,

The new site has no server-side code. Instead we generate HTML using Octopress and push to GitHub Pages, all from one repository.

This saves hosting costs/overhead and makes it really easy for people to submit pull requests and for contributors to make changes that I don’t always have time for. It makes the project less dependent on me and more a community effort.

To move forward, sometimes you have to cut features. In this case I had to lose our compiler, a webtool that relied on server-side code to generate minified packages from php.js functions.

Understandibly this has raised questions. It is still possible to bundle 4 useful functions:

# - Note that this combined 4 php.js functions into a file called: myLocutus
# and minified version: myphp.min.js in the current directory.
# - Note that this throws all functions into the
# global scope. It would be better to put them in a dedicated locutus object.
curl -sk https://raw.github.com/kvz/locutus/31bf3129f08672f8c1d6d0dcad2368ebc4ac57f2/functions/\
}.js |tee ./myLocutus && \
curl -vo ./myphp.min.js \
-H 'Expect: ' \
--data-urlencode compilation_level="SIMPLE_OPTIMIZATIONS" \
--data-urlencode output_format="text" \
--data-urlencode output_info="compiled_code" \
--data-urlencode js_code@myLocutus \

but some people think php.js should bundle all of it’s functions into one big file:

Not providing an all-in-one, downloadable, minified, ready-to-use .js file is going to kill php.js. You’ve abandoned windows users, and really any non-CLI junkie. While I am capable of compiling this myself, what a headache. You’ve introduced a barrier-to-entry that didn’t exist before, and by not existing, allowed for the following you now have. I highly suggest that you have this available for download, either here or on github, such that you can keep (and maintain) the momentum you worked so hard for.

I’d like to comment on that here. While I appreciate the sentiment, wether the project is being killed by these changes depends on how you look at php.js. To me, php.js is a resource:

  • For PHP developers that want see how it’s done in JavaScript
  • That enables fun experiments
  • With a few higher level functions that are incredibly useful, and missing in JavaScript

This is what I feel php.js should focus on. Making functions. Making them better.

If - on the other hand - you think of php.js as a

  • 2.1MB, 451-function, ready-to-rock spaceship that you can plug into your website so you can keep typing PHP client-side, not caring about learning JavaScript or how that extra weight might impact the user experience

..then yes, these changes are going to kill php.js.

I have limited time to spend on open source, and I want to spend it on things I enjoy and can believe in. Not on working to support use-cases that keep new developers from learning, or make the web slower. I’m sorry if this upsets folks but it really is my free time.

Luckily though for people with different views, I released php.js under MIT so it’s cool for anybody to fork this project and run with it.

If anything, knowing that the php.js repository will focus on the raw ./functions makes this easier.

Best wishes,

Hi everybody,

The new site has no server-side code. Instead we generate HTML <a href="htt
New Site https://locutus.io/2012/09/new-site/ 2012-09-26T00:00:00.000Z 2019-12-09T08:22:50.581Z Hi everybody,

Welcome to our new site. The old one had a lot of dead weight that nobody used and was basically unmaintained.

This one is generated by Octopress as plain html, and then stored on Github pages.

The source to do that is inside the Locutus directory in the _octopress dir, and freely available.

For instance, you can now very easily:

Next, any Locutus contributor who has Octopress set up (this mostly involves having the right ruby & gem versions) can then run make site MSG="describe what you did" in the project’s root dir to deploy the changes.

This should make it easy for Locutus contributors (or any Github user really, using pull requests) to update the site, making it less dependent on few core members, and more a community effort.

This is also the way I want to do regular Locutus development. Less via comments, more via the power of Github.

To people wondering where the compiler has gone to, I’m discontinuing that feature. It was more often broken then working, and I think this site should focus on being a simple resource and discussion platform, and not much else.

Now that everything is open sourced more I think there’s room for anyone to build a better alternative.

While I’m not actively involved with Locutus anymore, I hope taking this step will make the project ready for the future.

Best wishes,

Hi everybody,

Welcome to our new site. The old one had a lot of dead weight that nobody used and was basically unmaintained.
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Leader: Dee Fujko

Lamb of God's Fellowship Ministry organizes and hosts the various fellowship events throughout the year.  Other than the special, one time events we do have a scheduled lunch every fifth Sunday of the month.


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