Two Week Breeches Challenge: It's the Fin-hole Countdown!

Cue the music: IT'S THE FIN-HOLE COUNTDOWN! Da-da-da-daaaa. Da-da-da-da-daaaa. (And now both you and I will have that song stuck in our heads for the rest of the day.)

I've done it! the breeches are done (almost). You can't wear them, but all of the pieces are together and they are (nearly) functional. All that needs to be done are all of the buttons and associated nonsense. I'm two days behind my schedule, and need to get everything done by bedtime on Friday to successfully complete the challenge.

The remaining work almost reads like a professional wrestling ad. "In three days time: 17 buttonholes, 15 buttons, 6 eyelets. Only one will enter, but will he leave."

In all seriousness though, I'm very happy with how these turned out. I absolutely love the wine colored wool. I did make a few minor adjustments to my pattern to make the breeches more historically accurate, such as removing the back gusset. Not that there is anything inaccurate about the gusset. Extant garments and paintings simply depict that it was not as common as breeches without gussets.

I also ran across a few snags such as having to resize some of my pattern pieces because the wool moved during cutting and having to recut a leg placket because it decided to go for a walk about.

The second go round was much easier than making my first pair. Not only because now I know how to put these things together, but I have also noticed a major improvement in both my sewing abilities and also the quality of my stitches.