Burda IV

I'm making progress on the Burda pants, though it's much more time consuming than I anticipated. Hopefully the next pair (and YES, there WILL be a next pair) will go faster. I'm now finished butseptfer (luv that term) hemming and button and button hole. I will hem next, because I have the hemmer on my Singer now, so that goes next. Then I have to take it off for the buttonholer, since my button is too large for my Pfaff BH'er (and it makes ugly button holes). Here you can see some of the details.

Things I did: Top stitched with double needle around the fly, and the waistband both top and bottom. And stitched down the pleats (double needle) 2 inches down. I also made my pleats facing out - towards my hips - rather than in to help prevent the tummy pooch. I put my belt loops into both the seams for the waist band, then I topstitched over them on the top, but not the bottom.
Things I did "wrong" in finishing: left the overlap on the waist band on the wrong side. The even with the zipper side should have gone on top and the "flap" underneath. That one annoys me. I don't like the way the front waistband lines up. It just isn't even or pretty. I don't know what I did wrong there, but perhaps just sloppyness?
Things I will do differently next time: make them shorter. Make my thread tracings with longer loops. Do the waist band right (duh). Add pockets, though probably not the welt - still chicken there.
Of course I still need to hem and press. And you can still see a bunch of the threads from tracing hanging out.
If you have any questions or comments, please leave them. I'm hoping for even better next time.

Final parting shot is of my hot new shoes. LUV them. And handy for quick get aways to Kansas.