At The Seams Patterns - Sewing Tutorial: Wide-Leg Pant

This wide-leg pant is a great style for a beginner to intermediate sewer, as pockets are optional. For sewing instructions without the pocket, please click here.

This style is high-waisted with a long wide wide-leg. The waistband is 4cm wide and fitted to the body. Opening is an invisible center back zipper.

To begin you will need the following things

Materials

Wide-Leg Pant paper pattern
2.2 – 2.4m fabric
25cm long invisible zipper
0.15m Interfacing
cotton thread (enough to also thread your overlocker)

Tools

scissors
pins
sewing machine with a single needle and invisible zipper foot
overlocker
iron

Tips

Ensure your fabric is washed, dried, and pressed before you start cutting. There is nothing worse than washing your beautiful garment and it shrinks, or even more annoying the lining shrinks and the main doesn’t so it’s all pulled out and shape and is unwearable.
Also as this style is unlined, ensure that you check your fabric is not see-through.
If using a printed fabric be sure to check if your fabric is a 1 way or 2 way print.

Step 1

Cut all main pieces (excluding waistband) accurately on the correct grain, ensuring all notches are clipped.

Beginner tip* If you can afford to purchase a rotary cutter and cutting mat, I find this more accurate and time-efficient.

Step 2

Cut enough interfacing to cover 2 x waistband. Fuse to main fabric, then cut waistband on the correct grain, ensuring all notches are clipped.

Beginner tip* Interfacing can come in both white and black colour ways. Please use the correct colour. Using white on darker colours can alter the outer appearance of the fabric and can ruin the over all look of your garment.

Light colours – Use white interfacing

Dark colours – Use black interfacing

Step 3

Sew back waist darts, press inwards.

Beginner tip* If needed you can draw the dart lines onto the fabric with dressmaker’s chalk to ensure you sew a neat straight dart.

Step 4

Pin and sew pockets to side seams of front and back pant, right sides together using the clipped notches as a placement guide. Top stitch seam allowance to pocket bag.

Beginner tip* When pinning your pieces together try and think about which side you will be sewing from and in which direction and place your pins in a way where they can be easily removed.

Step 5

Sew side seams closed from top to bottom stopping at the pocket opening to sew around the edge of the pocket bag then continue down the rest of the side seam..

Step 6

Overlock side seams and pocket bags closed in one continuous line. Press seams back.

Step 7

Overlock both back rise edges separately.

Step 8

Sew inseams closed from top to bottom, overlock closed and press back

Step 9

Turn one leg inside out and keep the other the right way out and place one inside the other (right sides together) and pin. Sew front rise together and overlock from front waist to inseam (leave back rise open).