Finally picking up my sewing pace a bit! I have been really keen to make these pants because it's winter and I want long pants that cover my legs all the way. The flappy elastic-waist ankle length items of summer just are not doing it. I also love Waffle Patterns and after making the Azuki work pants I realised I had missed just how cool the Pinda might be.
So, fabric is stretch corduroy from Nick's Fabric in Auckland again shaming me as I bought it for these pants a year ago.
Size 38 since that seems to be the wisest fit. Alas, I didn't necessarily think about how stretchy my fabric was and that 38 is kind of loose on me. I should have sized down for these. If you make them do take the stretch into account - 38 would have actually been a great fit in ZERO stretch, but you need the pants to have some negative ease when they are so stretchy and that's not happening here.
The sewing took a few days but not as long as things were going a few months ago. Hopefully I'm gearing back into sewing mode. I made the cute double pleat back pockets...um, beware as they will kind of pleat open and make your bum look big. I find the pocket placement to be too low as well.
I did the patch front pockets. The instructions don't have you create a separate pocket if you use the zip so what I did was: add a little pocket facing to the zip area, like making a welt so it would be neat and reinforced. Once my zip was installed to that, I created a back layer to the zipper pocket from some quilting cotton (see bats!) I then treated the two units as one and finished the main pocket that way. Thus the zip pocket is in front of the real pocket where you put your hand. I'm definitely going to do this again. I love these patch pockets more than I think I love jeans pockets, because they actually have room to fit stuff whereas jeans pockets are full of my hipbones.
Anyway the waistband was fine, everything else was fine. The fly installation I do not love. It looks totally fine and was ok while doing it though you are using a folded seam allowance as your guide instead of basting the fly shut to start, but my zip is actually angled a bit sideways at the top as though somewhere the zipper tape wasn't completely sewn down flat well enough. I think I actually prefer the method where you baste the fly shut, even though I have said in the past I hate that method. Changed my mind!
By the way, no, we are not going to talk about nap direction. I am really amazed by how many times *in a row* I can forget something so basic... please, don't be like me. Corduroy is directional. Thanks.
Alas upon trying these on they are very large and are now seeking new owners. Very large like a solid 4" so no, I'm not going to try taking that out. I'm also not happy with how much excess fabric there is everywhere. I could probably have sized all the way down to 34 in this stretchy fabric. I'm happy with my experiment though and luckily I have lots of pants so even if these ones didn't work out for me, I'm still clothed. I might think harder about places I can put these nice patch pockets. Even my little pocket zip was very exciting and I want to do it somewhere else.
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