Colour blind!!!!

Remember my black-grey boiled wool Jalie jacket , at the end of its completion I said, "I need a pair of black jeans to go with it"?  Made'em!  Only they aren't strictly black:  I used a great little length of python-printed blackish-greyish denim.

Python print jeans!

I used the same pattern as before, only lengthened 2" for heels and  folded out the Oh Soooh Sixties bellbottoms.  My hubby aka my best buddy and greatest appreciator, is in love with these new jeans:  so they must be make me look darn good.

I made them exactly per pattern except: 

1. lengthened the hem by ~4 cm, 

2. straight leg below the knees, to go over all of my born-to-be-seven-feet-tall-will-always-love'em-to-death high heeled boots:

3.  I sewed the waistband onto the body in halves, and then used the menswear approach to making sure that there was no gaposis at CB.  NOTE TO SELF:  the right side has to be longer by 5 cm (2"), otherwise it's too short to fit over the fly shield.

4. to help the buttonhole and riveted button at CF behave better, I interfaced the waistband near CF.

5. instead of 3 belt loops per side I made 4: finally, my belts are properly lassooed onto the waistband!

Four belt loops per side hold the belt nicely in place. (the t-shirt is a Jalie pattern too!)

All that - positive, right?  Of course right. I cut and sewed these over the course of a few weekday evenings, finishing this fine weekend morning. AND????....you're not going to believe this.......... 

I sewed these jeans with GREEN thread.  Yup - green.  All these evenings I was convinced I'd grabbed dark GREY out of the drawer - and yesterday, just as I was finishing them, I discovered my uber-error in the cold harsh light of a Saturday morning.  And, you know what:  the joke's on me.  My husband had a pair of dark grey slacks tailored once, and the buttons were sewn on with blue thread, which seemed to me to be the epitome of in-your-face-shoddy tailoring.  Haha, now I know how that happened!