Don’t you think it is about time they are done? I certainly do.
It seems like I have spent FOREVER on these pants, although they have actually just been sitting in my sewing room all that time, waiting for me to squeeze in bits of time here and there.
I planned to finish them Friday, and in fact had just attached the waistband (partially) when we decided to take a spur of the minute trip into NYC. I knitted on the train, had a fabulous lunch at The Alamo which is a terrible name for a Mexican restaurant but the food is really excellent. We each had a different kind of ceviche to start, then George had the fabulous Chicken with Huitlacoche sauce and I had Grilled Scallops — ooooh so good!
We went to the National Design Museum (Cooper Hewitt forever in my mind) and saw the Extreme Textiles exhibit which was wonderful because it appealed to both my fiber loving and my techie nerdy tendencies. They also have swatches posted that you get to touch and feel. How cool is that! I love the whole idea of using modern materials and traditional techniques to make something really strong and useful and wonderful. Amazing stuff!
I finished the machine sewing Sunday morning because Saturday somehow got out of hand. The hem took another couple of hours so the pants weren’t actually done until last night. Not much interesting to see here: they’re only pants after all, relatively boring sewing.
In the end I left off the drawstring and did a modified elastic waist. There is still a back zipper and darts, but elastic as well, kind of a hybrid pair of pants.
The hand hem kind of takes them out of the really fast and simple category I guess, but I really like the way they turned out and I am happy.
