I finished these jeans for Nathan a few days ago. I wasn’t sure if the bling in the back would look silly on a little boy, but it is ok. The pattern is from Ottobre 1/2010, and I made size 104 even though he is 98 cm tall. Some other pants that I made for him in size 98 are getting a bit small, so decided to go the next size up (and hopefully, being denim, they would last a couple of seasons…unlike the cord pants I made him that last just a few months before holes appeared in the knees). Anyway, the combination of the pants being a size too large and the denim being slightly stretchy means that the pants are enormous on him. I tried adding a bit of elastic in the back of the waist, but it wasn’t enough. We ended up getting him a belt from Cotton On Kids to keep his pants up.

The pants took me at least a couple of weeks worth of stolen moments and nights. I got soooo frustrated with my machine, skipping stitches when top stitching over seams that were so very bulky. I have since found out that there is a simple solution to help with this problem. I got the studs put on near the pockets by a little shop in Brunswick, but they charged me $5 for them both which isn’t a lot of money really, considering they had to stop what they were doing and set up a different machine, but in Sydney it would have only cost me $2 so it felt like a bit of a rip off. 😀

I also decided to get a metal zip so the pants would be more…jeansy, if that is a word, but I couldn’t find a 9 cm one required by the pattern, so I ended up with a 12 cm zip. I normally cut down the dress zips for the boys pants, and it did occur to me that I would not be able to cut the metal zip but decided to try it anyway. Well, I won’t do that again! I had to hand stitch some of the top stitching at the bottom of the fly because I couldn’t sew through the zip. I had other issues with the pants too (I have a new rule not to cut anything after 10 pm), but I think that they turned out ok in the end. Nathan likes them, and that’s all that matters really.

Me, well I’m just happy they are finished. Finally.

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