These were not failures.

Fabric from Oakland as Jonathan and I relocated myself to Seattle. We stopped and visited Polly and Peter (pietre?Peiter? what's Canadian for Peter?) ...almost 3 months later they were boxers.

I am thinking seriously about creating an alternate set of instructions for the pattern (Simplicity 9958) since I didn't find the instructions clear when I was learning to sew, and if you are going to do things like add snaps, you need to know when to add interfacing and if you are going to french/flat fold the seams, ... blah blah blah....