Summer Pants Tutorial

Supplies

• opaque fabric: 110x40 inches. Use lightweight fabric.
• sheer fabric: 110x40 inches. Optional
• lightweight interfacing: optional, for the yoke if you use one, 28x4 inches
• braid: 4 feet. You can also make ties with your fabric if you prefer
• matching thread

Pattern

Instructions

• 0.5'' seam allowance
• hem depth depends on your height.

1. Cut opaque fabric. You should end up with 2 rectangles, with an opening for the crotch
2. Cut sheer fabric. Optional . This should be identical to your opaque fabric, or slightly shorter if you want the opaque fabric to show at your ankle (see photo).
3. Finish edges of lateral side of opaque and sheer fabric. (Note: for the pants in the pictures, I edged the sheer fabric with a strip of opaque.)
4. Stitch opaque to sheer fabric at the top (belt) and crotch only, wrong side of sheer to right side of opaque. They will be used as a single fabric from now on. Note that only the top is stiched, so that the 2 fabrics flow freely when you walk
5. Stitch the 2 pairs of fabric at the crotch opening, right side together. Stitch again next to stitch line to reinforce the seam.

1. Fold 0.25' and press top part of the pants, fold again 1'' and stitch.
2. Insert braid or tie at each end opening, stitch to close.

1. Cut opaque fabric for the yoke.
2. Cut interfacing for the yoke.
3. Stitch yoke fabric to pants, stitch line is 3'' below the pants edge, right sides together
4. Press interfacing right next to the stitching line, on wrong side of yoke.
5. Fold yoke over the interfacing and pants top, press, pin, then stitch in the ditch (looking on right side of pants, stitch directly on top of the yoke stitch line)
6. Insert braid or tie at each end opening, stitch to close.

1. Grab one piece, center at the front, right below your navel, and attach at the back
2. Grab the other piece from behind between your legs, and tie at the front.