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I recently acquired a pair of plain black cotton track pants for the looong plane journey to Vancouver next month. (Apparently, jeans aren’t the best for long plane rides as it may lead to deep vein thrombosis.)

The pants was a little too plain for my liking and so I decided to jazz it up. Went around collecting materials galore – plain black cloth, shoelaces in brown and black, silver metal fasteners, golden buttons, and thread reels in a myriad of colours.

I initially wanted to do some contrast threading. Say for example, electric blue threading on the black-based pants. However, I threw that idea out of the window as it’d be difficult to match. Eventually settled for neutral colours.

Creating the pockets!

I started off by creating two little black pockets – one for each side, attached to the front of the pants at different heights.

The pockets were created from black squares of scrap cloth with the edges sewn in as shown. (Yes, folks! Everything was hand-sewn. The total process took about two hours in total because I am such a n00b at stitching. But I gave it a shot anyway because it’s really fun to customize your own stuff!)

The black pockets were then attached to the pants. Yes, with black thread. Hurhur, how boring. (; It’d be fun to do something with contrast threading in the future. Perhaps a t-shirt. I’ll see how it goes.

Attaching the pockets!

This was then followed by little golden buttons for some pizazz! (Not to mention how I was getting tired of seeing black, black, black!)