Sewing Comfortable Trousers-Pants

For this project you will need:

• 2 m of stretchy cotton fabric
• Sewing machine
• 3cm wide rubber band
• Thread (for spool and bobbin)
• 30 A4 pieces of paper
• A printer
• A computer
• Tape
• Measuring tape
• Fabric scissors
• Seam ripper
• A safety needle
• Chalk pen
• Iron
• Ironing board
• Clips (optional)

• Go to the website: https://so-sew-easy.com/unisex-scrubs-pants-patter... and follow the instruction to print out the pattern.
• Take the pattern and lay the paper on the floor like on the image above.

• Tape the paper together on the connecting sides.
• Used scissors to cut on the black outline, on the size that you want the pants to be.

• Take the fabric and place it spread out on the floor.
• Place the pattern on top of it and trace it with the chalk pen.
• After you traced all pieces use the fabric scissors to cut each piece out.
• Remember to look at the pattern closely for the reason that some pieces are needed twice.

• Plug in the sewing machine and thread in you spool thread and the bobbin.
• Set your sewing machine to a straight stitch.

• Take the two front pieces of the pants and place them with the nice sides of the fabric together on the floor.
• Then use the clips to clip front raise seams together.
• Sew along the clips.
• Repeat the step for the two back pieces of the pants.

• Place the front and back part of the pants on top of each other with the nice sides facing.
• Clip the outside seam together and sew along the clips.

• Take the pants flipped so the nice sides are facing each other.
• Clip the inseam together with clips.
• Sew along the clips starting at the crotch point and then sewing downwards on one leg.
• Then start at the crotch point again and sew down the other leg.

• Try on the pants and see how loose they are, if they are very loose measure how loose they with a measuring tape and divide the number by 4.
• Draw the 4 darts with a chalk pen (like on the top right image) in the width that you just calculated.
• Sew along the chalk lines.

• Flip the pants the wrong way around, then fold about 5cm of fabric of the waist band to the outside.
• Sew around the waist band creating a 4cm tube, around the entire waist.

• Use a seam ripper to make a small hole into the waist band tube.
• Remember to make sure you only cut trough one layer of the tube.

• Take the rubber band and cut it into the length that you desire (keep a bit of seam allowance).
• Take a safety needle and secure it to the rubber band.
• Take a piece of tape and place it around the safety needle to make sure that it doesn't open.

• Take the rubber band and place the safety needle into the hole of the waist band.
• Thread the rubber band through the entire waist band until the rubber band is once around the waist band.
• Remember to make sure the the end of the rubber band doesn't go into the waist band because then its hard to get out again.

• Take the two ends of the rubber band and place them on top of each other.
• Use a zig zag stitch and sew back and forth at least 3 times.

• Flip the pants inside out.
• Fold the bottom of the pants twice with about.
• Sew around the fold with at least 2cm distance to the fold line.
• Repeat this for the other side as well.

• Take an iron and neatly iron the seams so that they are flat on the side.