Not-so-small jeans

The kiddo is at a size where he's right between commercially-made pants sizing, so I decided to make him a pair of jeans, aided greatly by finding a 2 yard mill end precut of heavy (although stretch) denim at Walmart.

Of course I used KwikSew 2544--he'll be in that size range for a few more years, so there's still a lot of that pattern in our future (including the  very next post I'm going to make.)

The denim is very dark and I used the generic jeans color Saba C thread I have, so it's a fairly sturdy, good-for-top-stitching thread

The inseams were sewn before the outseams so the appropriate top stitching could happen, although the seam allowances are just serged and stitched down, no full-blown-pressed-twice welt seams.  Oh no.

And the hems are really flat, being cut  fairly close to on-grain, so I don't expect them to do that bias-hem-wrinkle thing that real jeans have

 That's OK, these aren't "real" jeans, anyway.  No zipper, loads of elastic on the back of the waist, where there's no yoke and no back pockets, among other things

 including the front pockets being the wrong shape.

 It's OK, he doesn't use his pockets, anyway, I just keep stubbornly making them.

And then on to the next pair.