5037 STRIPED TROUSERS

YOU NEED: wool/semi-wool; zipper (length depends on your size); 1 button.

ATTENTION! Before sewing, print paper patterns and lay them out according to the linen width (from 90 to 150 cm) to find out how much material you need (do not forget about double and symmetric details).

WHEN SEWING, BE CAREFUL WITH NOTCHES – THEY MUST BE COINCIDING!

CUTTING:

Fabric:

1. Front part – 2 pieces

2. Back part – 2 pieces

3. Waistband – 1 piece

Additionally: 4 pocket pipings of 11 cm length and 2 cm width including allowances; 4 sackings of 11 cm width and 10 cm lengths including allowances.

Lining:

4. Waistband – 1 piece

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Stitch darts, press depths towards the center.

2. MAKE slit “frame” pockets. Press 4 cm stripe of interfacing on the back part’s wrong side above pocket marking. Lay pipings on front part right sides together, pin them along marked pocket entrance, then stitch along marking coinciding lengthwise edges with pocket entrance line. Cut front part between stitches, cutting stitch ends diagonally. Be careful with facings and sackings when cutting! Press seam allowances towards the garment. Turn facings into wrong side to make neat frames, then tack. Topstitch right side along the seam joining the facing. Turn small triangles at slit ends into wrong side, then topstitch on the facing between ends of stitches. Stitch free end of sackings to free edges of facing joining seams’ allowances on wrong side. Then press sackings downwards, adjust them, then stitch together.

3. Stitch side/leg inside seams. Neaten seam allowances and press them apart. Stitch bowl’s edges download from bowl’s mark, stitch middle back seam with the same seam.

4. Press closure one-piece facings into wrong side: on the right edge – on the front middle line, on the left edge – on 1 cm distance from front middle line (= closure allowance). Sew the zipper under closure allowance edge (left edge) along the edge, with teeth closely to the bending. Pin the slit coinciding front middle lines. Sew zipper free band to one-piece facing of closure right edge. Do not catch garment right part’s fabric! Topstitch right front part along the closure according to marking, catching the facing.

5. Stitch the waistband to garment’s upper edge with its ends ejecting the closure: 2 cm (left edge) under the closure, 5 cm (right edge) on the closure. Turn half of waistband into right side and stitch ends making short edges diagonally. Cut allowances close to stitches. Turn the waistband right side out. Fold inner waistband under and sew by hand. Make a buttonholes into right end, sew button on left one.

6. Neaten hems, press them into wrong side and sew by hand.