Friday, March 4, 2011

Pants for spring and summer 2011


When preparing apparel for spring and summer 2011, why not make some trousers from a light cotton fabric.

I had a piece of fabric in stock, found a while ago in a container with left overs in a shop in town and 1.6 meter will be just enough to make pants.

It is a lightly striped, light grey soft cotton fabric, nice to wear when the wheather becomes warmer. 

This pattern has pockets in the side seams and  making these pockets is fun to do.

Another funny item of sewing pants is the section where the two legs meet each other. I have never known how this section is called in english, because one would not learn this in school. So looking around, I guess it is called the crotch, but please let me know if this happens to be an inappropriate expression.



(double click to enlarge)
The seams of the front and back parts should be stitched over a limited part.
The front one just as far as where the fly begins, the back one in such a way that you keep enough room to construct the section of the fly..

These two stitched seams can be laid into a cross.

Stichting the seams of the inner parts of the two legs, from left undet to right under, 
automatically includes stichting the crotch (or do it in three runs, first the horizontal part of the scrotch and then from top to bottom the two seams of the inner legs)

 
When turned around,  this would be the result.
The vertical line of the scrotch does not fit perfectly, too bad, but no one will notice.
(This flaw can be prevented by stitching the seams of the inner legs in three runs) 

As I said, fun to do. And every time you learn something new.

The final result is fine. I added  some simple gray buttons, and I will wear these pants with a simple small black belt

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