Levi's 501s

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What do you do when your favorite Levis 501s wear out? Not just wear out but become fashionably ripped and holey in all the wrong places? You go and buy a replacement pair. Right? Wrong. You unstitch two pairs and then try to sew them together by putting a new front on the original back.

So far I have successfully managed to machine sew the back of the right leg to the back of the left leg, thus producing a very large tube.

After hours of unpicking, tacking and resewing I've finally got two legs that I've got to join to the waistband. I really don't know why I started this. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Now I have to finish it to prove that I can do it. Whether I will ever be able to wear the damn things is another matter entirely.

Today I am mostly feeling stitched up.

What happened to Summer?

Here in Bogsville we are enjoying temperatures of 16°C and lower than that at night. It's freezing. Global warming, sheeesh!

Finished

In answer to those of you who are asking, "Why doesn't he just go and buy a new pair?" I will but I won't pay Bogsville prices. When Bogsville shops charge $80+ a pair rather than the $40+ elsewhere prices, I'd rather stick a front and back together so that I've got one pair I can wear rather than two pairs that I can't. I'm probably the only person in the whole World who still darns socks.