Rainbow Chakra Yoga Pants

This is sort of a refashion post.
Last spring, I made a pair of yoga pants that were a little bit too big on me.
Here's a picture of the saggy pants, from last year:

Hahahaha! I know, it was too loose for yoga, but very comfortable as lounge wear. This year, I find myself in need for more yoga pants. Instead of making a new pair, I wanted to see if I can alter the existing pair. Make it fit a little better.

I wanted to see if I could turn the pants inside out and sew a seam an inch or two from the seam, as shown in the photo below.

Yes! Yes! It worked. What a simple way to make a large pair of yoga pants fit!

I teach at a yoga center, and at one of the classes, I am leading a 7 week chakra series. Each week, we do yoga postures for a chakra, and each chakra has it's corresponding color. And isn't it lovely that all the colors together look like a rainbow.
In honor of the chakra series, and to make my pants more interesting, I added color wheels. I took strips of scrap jersey, pinned and sewed (using straight stitch) onto one side of the pants:

I did not have the opportunity to get a photo of the pants when worn, but I did manage to photograph this pants, with the last rays of the natural light today. Just barely made it!I get lots of compliments on it, despite (or perhaps because of) the less than perfect look of each wheel.