The Eyes are the Groin of the Head

Thanks to Dwight Schrute for the title of this post.  Let me explain...

Before looking up the exact quote, I thought it referenced "crotch", which somewhat ties into today's subject.  I liked it anyway and decided to keep it.  So it stays.

Moving on...

Last week I decided to attempt my first pantsformation.  I found a pair that I bought a few years ago at Forever21 and then forgot about because they were too wide, too long and too unimportant for me to worry about (my reasoning behind the purchase being the bargain price and my intentions of fixing them at some point).

Long pants may cause side effects

With a little pinspiration and ideas from my new favorite blog I gave it a whirl.

Definitely not as easy as it looked.  I had to sew and re-sew and re-sew until it looked and felt "right".

Wrong.

Thousands of stress-relieving seam-rips later, they were complete! Until I tried them on and realized they had a little "pocket" in the crotchal region.

Like any mature adult would do, I threw a fit and introduced the crotch of my pants to our dull-as-a-butter-knife-scissors.  Miraculously, my intentions of destroying my project didn't work and I somehow managed to fix them with only minimal additional seam-rippage...

Sweet success!

I wore these skinnies to work only minutes after the last stitch.  I will admit that I brought a second pair of pants with me...no trust in my sewing skills...and fortunately the spare pants remained in their home under my desk all day.  As exciting as this accomplishment may seem, the pants were less than comfortable, partially because of the anticipated riiiiip with every move, but also because I crafted these pants based on a stretchier pair and they were a little too tight for my likings.

While I may never wear these beauts again, I feel like I've gained a good deal of knowledge for my next experiment.