It's Finished.

After fiddling with the feet (the small bits at the end always take more time than seems fair!) the hose is now finally finished. I'm very happy that it is, and there's nothing that went superduper wrong, but I'm also not over the moon. 

With all the pattern making and pattern taking and pattern transferring, after having cut the very first pattern attempt a little too small, it's now a little too large. Not really bad, but, well, it would sit even nicer if it were a tiny bit tighter.

Fortunately it's not intended to be worn by my most patient model husband, but it will be in a case with a support that fits it right, so I'm trying to not beat myself up over it too much. It also has quite a bit of fold puddling around the ankles, but again, a little tighter would make this less obvious. And since the linen fabric is not very stretchy, and it needs a bit of room for the feet to pass through, well, I think the extra width at the ankle could have been less, but not avoided entirely.

The whole thing could have profited from some nice fitting sessions after cutting and before sewing, but I have to admit skipping these because I was afraid the fabric could unravel too much when fitting. (Also see above, the goal was a reconstruction to sit in a case, not one to fit perfectly.) There's some other bits that I would like to tweak some more, where I'm not entirely happy with how it worked out, and I do wonder if there's a better (read: quicker and less annoyingly fiddly) way to make the foot parts. 

For now, though, I'll be happily done with the thing. There's a few touching samples of the fabric to be seamed, then it will all go off to its new permanent home, and I can prepare for the sprang workshop this weekend!