I finished my trousers!

Over a year ago I set out on the project to make myself a pair of trousers, copied from an old pair of hiking trousers that I liked. I'd never done any sewing of that complexity.
I used a 40-year-old sewing machine and did a lot of hand basting.
It was quite a learning experience. It's amazing how many pieces there are in such a garment, how many little details.

I cut the old trousers open at the seams, laid the pieces out on the floor and calculated the size of the fabric.

The fabric I used is 100% cotton, 110 cm wide, 217 g/sqm and I needed 2.5 m.

The trousers don't have a crotch seam. Instead there is a gusset that runs the whole length of the legs. There is also a yoke and lots of other details like darts at the knees and fancy front pockets. The hardest part was the zip, I had to redo that. I did the buttonhole by hand.

I know it's kind of expected to post pictures but in the end this is just a rather plain grey pair of trousers, not much to see.

#sewing #clothesmaking