Let's celebrate a half-Christmas

Last Christmas I bought lots of flannel and made pj pants for Christmas gifts. I couldn't get it all done so I gave my friend fabric for Christmas and promised her a pair of pj pants. I also bought some fabric to replace the ones I split out about a year before. So, just a little late for half-Christmas I completed these UFOs. Mine are the striped/floral and my friend's are the polka dot/cupcake ones.



Why is it that it can take so long to finally get up the gumption to put in elastic in something as simple as pj pants? I picked these up several times and just didn't want to do it. My friend's have been hemmed for several months, while mine needed elastic and hemming. So, in less than an hour they are both done. It's been so long that all I remember is that they are from a Simplicity pattern, lengthened a bit. I decided to put drawstring elastic in them so I didn't have to worry about length of elastic so much. This time I realized I could pull the strings through the casing about an inch from the end so I could put the elastic in, in the round. Worked great! Now to put them away again for cooler weather. LOL.

Now I can work on a t-shirt for me and some school clothing for the kids without any guilt about these UFOs.