The Pants are Finally Finished!

Okay, I'll start from the beginning, because there are 2 separate issues here. This is a Frankenpattern using Kwik Sew 3614 shorts and the legs from Jalie 2909. I've been working on the pants upstairs in my sewing room, but my full-length mirror is downstairs in my bathroom, so it's been hard to make adjustments and check them quickly. I resorted to taking pictures like this upstairs to get an idea of what I'd done. The wrinkles were all I could see (plus the poor posture and flat derriere), and I'd get very depressed.

But then I'd check downstairs and feel better about things - I like the legs, even if they are wrinkley.

So I finally bought a full-length mirror for upstairs and that will hopefully get hung today. Then I'll work on my picture quality, because lighting is a little tricky there. But now I can slap these things on and quickly check them, which speeds up my sewing and doesn't interrupt the mojo.

So that brings us to last night, when I realized that even if I can't get these things to be perfect, they're certainly good enough to wear and deserve to be finished. So I'm comparing them to a pair of pants I bought at Dress Barn and wore once before deciding they feel awful and are way too tight to wear to work.  Check out all those wrinkles - bleh.

Now compare my muslin, which still has some wrinkles, but nothing like the RTW's.  And I actually could make the crotch wrinkles go away if I lift the waistband up. 

 Side view - I hope you're not eating lunch - I get nauseous looking at this.  Sewista - I don't want to bring back your morning sickness - maybe you should bail out now!

 And the muslin - still with those hip crater wrinkles, but I don't even care about those anymore.  (Funny how crotch problems can take your mind off hip problems.)

Oh, did I actually go through an entire day at work with these pants?  At least I was wearing an untucked shirt.

Okay, these actually do fit much better.  I don't know why I got the little indent at the center back seam, but I'm okay with it.  And I see that I have that back leg wrinkle no matter what pants I wear.

So this is the total picture, and other than powering out a couple of wrinkles near the knees where the fabric was folded, I'm happy with them.  I even did a nice hem that works with these flats or the Nuncio heels Sheila made me buy (she's very persuasive when it come to shoes).

 I believe I shall have 2 glasses of wine before I hem anything from now on, since that's what I did last night.

So, from here I've decided that I'll try the crotch curve from the Betzina jeans on the next pair, except I've got to figure out if a jeans crotch is the same as a trouser crotch - anyone?  Will it fit too close?  And I'm going to try a different leg possibly.

But maybe I'll make a quick shirt first....