Well, there's no darning to speak of.
There are pants
Ravens from Spoonflower on twill and crows for lining
Jeans. The fabric is too stiff for trousers with any pleating.
I am really good with the whole jeans making process until the end and then I get sloppy with the handstitching (and yes, the zipper ends got a tab to enclose them).
Also there was a sewing failure, where I secured the 1 1/2" elastic in the waistband with nonwoven material and of course it tore while I was wearing them at work. I had to safety pin my pants to my shirt so I would not become unpantsed.
Sorry, no good photos of that. Which is a shame because it was quite the epic moment.
Used the homemade plastic bodkin (yes, I staple it on. I can remove the staple)
And if you look very carefully, you can see the remnants of the fuzzy shreds of the nonwoven stuff I used as a elastic leader.
I am trying to not stitch the elastic through the waistband layers to secure it, but I end up doing that very thing at the end of the process because I just SCREW UP. I don't think it looks very finished, but I get impatient, I want to have the thing done now so I can wear them tomorrow (or some other ridiculous self inflicted deadline)....
I'm working on that. I am also still altering jeans
The query this time was: could I take them in as extremely as before (almost four inches in the back) and not run the dart into the pocket to hide the end? I played with these a lot before I committed to my choices (two darts and taking in the back seam.
In a single color fabric without distressing or bleaching, this would look fine. Because I am dealing with the different colors, the seams look really sad. I should just replace the yoke entirely. It would be the wrong color, but it would be better.
The next time I am going to make a virtue of those dips in the yoke and exaggerate them to look like the points in a western shirt yoke. I am not done with my love of western shirts and making jeans, but maybe for the moment.
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| photo source https://sneum.com/the-anatomy-of-the-western-shirt/ |
