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Christmas Jammer Pants 2021

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"Donuts" for Sweet Dreams :)  I have been making jammer pants for the kids for quite a few Christmases now, and made them for the grandkids last year for the first time.  They were a win and the kids loved them.  The only downside was that they outgrow them so quickly!  These girls are all going to be tall and by the spring these jammers were more like capri pants.   So to get a little more wear out of them I decided to add an extra couple of inches to the length and made a second hem with a long basting stitch that should be easy enough for Daughter to pick out when they start getting to be too short. When I was buying the fabric I hadn't done my calculations ahead of time and just made an assumption that I could get 3 pairs of jammer pants for little girls out of 2 meters of fabric.  This *would* have worked if I had done them to the finished length, but adding those couple of extra inches each left me scrambling to patch together a few bits on one of the pairs.  I deci