Frankenstein stitching

Last week my son was walking across the road and got hit by a car. He was lucky - just a few cuts and bruises, but did get taken to A&E by ambulance, and they cut off his trousers to check for damage to his legs.

While recuperating, Thomas thought it would be a good idea to sew up the cut trousers with a "frankenstein stitch". I found some iron-on interfacing to hold the legs together, and did the tricky parts - then showed him the stitch (sort of a two-sided buttonhole stitch) and gave him the needle and thread.It took a while - he has long legs -
Here it is before stitching -
and here it is, finished -
- except for the embelishment of a designer label on the back pocket - Thomas had a heraldic idea involving Corgis -
I gave him various types of fabric, showed him my textile paints and collection of rubbers for cutting a stamp, found the freezer paper in case he wanted to make stencils, and then went away for the weekend.

Coming back, I found the worktable clear except for this neat array of paint, and replacement rubbers -
In another part of the room, evidence of activity -
Haven't looked at the results - I'm waiting for him to come home from work and tell me about it. Where next ....