I’ve had a piece of checked ponte in my stash for a few years, and I’ve finally made it up! I bought it at Mood Fabrics in New York on one of my visits, and I’m so pleased to be wearing them.

I decided to make a pattern that I had cloned from a pair of Visage trousers that I had and loved for years, but which had completely worn out, and I have to say I love these trousers.

I took these photos after a long road trip and the fabric behaved beautifully. Looking at the photos I think the trousers are too long, but that’s an easy fix.

I’m wearing them with a Pattern Union Cora Blouse made from one of my son’s old christmas jumpers. I sometimes where this jumper as a dress!

No photo whilst seated, but I’ve got one laying about reading my book in front of the fire!

I wore them on the plane on my recent holiday – both coming and going as well as various points in between.

I was pretty happy with my pattern matching, and the fit is ok too. This is the only closeup of the back I took. I added a back pocket for my phone, using the bias of the fabric so I didn’t have to pattern match. Then the pocket looked weird at the normal angle, so I had to line it up with the top of the squares and this has skewed it round to the side a bit, but it looks better than on the angle. Please excuse the close up of my derriere, this was me doing a fit photo, which wasn’t intended for public consumption, but it’s the only photo of the back that I have..

These trousers are really easy to style and I like them with my Liz Haywood Zero Waste Optimatium coat. This is how I wore it on the flight home too.

I know these will be in regular rotation, especially once I have taken them up a bit.

To finish off here are a couple of videos of Little E in the local playground.

She crawled to the top of this slide, completely freaking me out as I was at the bottom. Luckily her Dad was there to make sure she was safe. I love Miss G’s happiness when she got to the bottom.