New pants from Daddy's favourites

One of my favourite recent refashion was a pair of much-loved shorts of my husband's into long pants for my son. After ten years, these much-loved, much-repaired shorts finally died:

Out of the dust, I created these pants for my son, using a pair of his pants as a pattern. It was a very easy refashion, except that I managed to make the waist too narrow, and had to add a crotch gusset. I don't mind the look of that in the end, as it works well.

My favourite bit of these shorts in the features that have been kept from the original shorts. The cuff is worn, the badge is still there. I used the back pocket to reinforce the knee (the fabric is really soft and fragile in places). The front pockets are in the anatomically correct space, although they are sewed up. And there is a nice contrast between the faded and unfaded portions of the old shorts. More photos on my blog, Finished Objects.