Mustard legs - V1204

At the January Alexandria session, Renata was musing about making a pair of lemon yellow jeans. So while looking along the drill bolts I found mustard yellow drill. Score. This is one of my colours. While I've been working away from home, at night I've been able to get in a couple of hours sewing. No cooking or cleaning, until I get home.

This is my third version - red and green were recently made. This version has a 'stay' at the front and I've widened the top of the back leg. I just couldn't work out the pockets pieces, so I pinned the pocket pieces together and extended them to the zipper seam. It's a drill cotton so it won't stretch.

The contrast thread was originally going to be grey but then I wanted a less obvious pocket design, so I over sewed it with mustard coloured thread. The pocket curves are traced off using the base on the iron water jug. There wasn't anything else I could decide upon while working in a one bed room apartment.

Last Saturday, my sewing buddies pointed out there was an unsightly curve on the centre back seam. So it's now laying dead flat as I unpicked the centre back seams, raised the base and then resewed the seams and flat edges.
I have kept the grey thread on the belt carriers and coin pockets.

Because the fabric is pure cotton, it crushes, hence the creases. The fabric does breath well when you travel. The jeans do feel a bit loose when I sit.

I'm now working on another jeans pattern - Vogue jeans - in apple green denim. I'm using this mustard pants to get the adjustments right. This is my 'oh my got it's humid' weekend look :)