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This video shows you how to make trousers.

More or less everything you need to know is here.

How to deal with slanted pockets.

How to alter the pattern for petite or taller sizes.

A guide to topstitching.

Adding a Waistband

 

A lovely elegant design for day or evening wear.

Make it in soft wool crepe, velvet, silk, linen and more...

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This original pattern does not include cutting out layouts or a guide to fabric requirements. All later patterns include all the features of any other commercially available pattern.

Please refer to - My Help Page - Where are the Cutting Out Layouts?

The price reflects the fact that for this particular pattern, cutting out layouts are not yet included.

So all you need is -

2-3 metres of fabric, depending on pattern size and fabric width, prewash if washable

Pattern, printed and cut out

0.3 metres of lining

An invisible zip

Top stitching thread

Jeans style press-stud

Waistband interfacing

Machine thread

Stitch all darts

Stitch front pockets to fronts along pocket opening, right sides together

Turn, press, top stitch

Stitch under pocket to front pocket keeping free from front

Prepare pleats and secure pocket and pleats with temporary baste

Stitch front seam, trip, clip, press to one side, top stitch

Baste front lining panel to front, wrong sides together

Insert invisible zip in back seam and complete seam

Stitch back to front along inside leg seam stitching from ankle to ankle

Trim, clip curves, press towards back, top stitch

Stitch outside leg seams

Prepare and attach waistband

Whack in a big press-stud at waistband opening or you can go with a button and buttonhole