camwyn | I gotta get a full length mirror.

Taking pictures of myself wearing shorts I just finished making is oddly difficult. (Although not as awkward as trying to photograph my own ears due to not having an earlobe model available for finished earrings.)

Greenish-brown cargo shorts worn with a belt, photographed on someone with pale legs and a light blue T-shirt. There is ocean water and a dock to the left and a house with a car in the driveway to the right.

Same shorts viewed from the left. More house, less ocean.

Same shorts from the right this time. No ocean, just houses and bench in the background.

Same shorts. This is an attempt to photograph them from behind. I got an angled shot of my butt with the shadow of my hand holding the phone over it. Sorry about that.

Pattern is KwikSew K4045, men's cargo/flat front pants. Bought it from joann.com. I started in on the pattern back in June of 2020, before I had enough of a clue to realize that yeah, I should've begun by making a muslin; I still have the cut pieces of that original pattern lying around. (Tip to my younger self: fusible web and fusible interfacing are TWO DIFFERENT THINGS.) It's probably best that I got confused/frustrated during zipper installation. I wound up having to grade from an XL waistband down to L shorts.

Fabric is brushed chino twill, in moss, from SewingStudio.com in Oregon. Primary pockets are made from a fabric I could not for the life of me remember buying. It may have been a bedsheet once. Felt like it was in too good a condition to be the bedsheet I had used to teach myself how to make bias tape but I don't really have any other candidates. The thread, zipper and jeans button were from wawak.com, the back pocket buttons and interfacing were from joann.com.

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ceitfianna

They look really good.

camwyn

Thanks! Debating a few adjustments and maybe a slightly lighter weight fabric for another pair, but I have other projects to do first.

derien

Amazing job! I would not have known you made them.

Thanks! This was some really sweet fabric. If I do full trousers (I cut the original paper back in 2020 but kept the leg bits) I might use something lighter, but I feel like having a really good fabric to work with made it easier for the finished piece to look good.