Pants saga, day 3

The pants, while majestic, really were too big.
Yesterday, I unpicked all my pleats, and cut some fabric out, and put them back together.
I had some fun with Geraldine, turning her into Gerald. I had hoped to stick pins in her, not fz, but the crotch of the pants was too hig, and the base of the dummy too low...So I had to set the waist a little lower than is normal. But I got a good idea of what I needed to remove. The left leg is the one full of pins.
I ended up taking 40cm out of each leg. The white line is where I cut. So last night was spent running gathering stitches. I can now have my pleats meet at the fly, add a flyflap, and hopefully bob's someone's uncle.
I'm glad we tried them on. He decided that the waistband could be 15 cm tighter, too. I based that on the last pants...gawd, you know, it's so much easier to make stuff for me. At least I'm always there to try it on.