u/piscesprince777

Hi,

I’m making a second pair of trousers using the same pattern i used for my first but wanting to adjust it to fit me better.

On my first pair following the pattern exactly, the upper back of the trousers is too short and the crotch too tight/ too short. I think I need to drop the crotch and add length to the back.

However when I look for tutorials I can only find them for patterns where the trousers are in a more ‘vertical’ layout- like where the back and front panel of Each leg are separate long pieces. Whereas this pattern is more ‘horizontal’ and the pants are split horizontally rather than down the side or front lengthways.

I’ve added some pictures of the pattern piece and the overall pattern so you can understand how they’re constructed. Ignore the pencil marks- that was just all guess work!

I can’t seem to wrap my head around adapting this piece the same way as the videos because the piece seems so different … any help is appreciated ! Thank you :)

Hey I just made my first pair o pants, so much easier than shirts! (My first ever thing I made was a men’s shirt, was so hard! Then made another men’s shirt using a different pattern which was even harder ((yoke and fancy stuff))- I shoulda started with more beginner friendly things like tote bag or pillow case etc but I am so impatient. But after two frustrating but successful shirts I thought was time to divert to trousers)

I really like em, the shape is exactly what I’m into (barrel/ balloon + cropped), but I’m 6’4 and slim with shorter legs/ longer torso so my proportions are a lil weird (the reason I finally decided to start learning to sew a few weeks ago!!!) however- there’s some things I’d wanna change about them to make them my perfect pants.

I’m hoping to add a little more bagginess to them, and add some more room to the upper part - the crotch + bum- as it’s a little weird fitting on me/ I prefer pants to not be so tight in that area or really affected at all by body movement when wearing. I feel like maybe it’s a case of dropping the crotch? Just not

Sure how to effectively do this ! They’re a unisex patternso think maybe that’s my issue.

Im also not super in love with the way they (when looking from the side) are flat at the back but so curved at the front- I imagine id need to add darts on bottom of back leg panel?

Any help is super appreciated! If anyone is interested they’re the studio pants by indigo indigo- I just changed a few of the design choices like the pockets to better suit my preferences :)