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From: Joho
Date: 09-14-2004, 02:18 PM (1 of 3)
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My First Post! I've been lurking for weeks, studying up on all your tips. I'm about to venture into drafting some one-seam pants, with an elastic back waist and drawstring front waist (I'm pregnant and want premium expandability). Somewhere I once saw instructions for DIY one-seam pants online, but alas, I cannot find them again. My question: Should I draft the pattern so that the seam on the outside of my leg, or should I use an inseam? I'm a novice sewer, but I'm confident and daring, so that has to mean something, I hope.  My fabric: an old linen damask tablecloth from my Grandma (it's got holes, but it's soooo soft).
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User: Joho
Member since: 09-14-2004 Total posts: 5 |
From: paroper
Date: 09-14-2004, 03:46 PM (2 of 3)
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Most have the seam on the inside of the leg. I think that if you join the pants at the center on a pair of adult pants, you might have a problem because the back crotch in a pair of pants is deeper and lower than the front. If you put them together at the center, they might feel strange like they were twisted. You can try it on something very cheap...dollar material from Wal Mart if you want, but my guess is that it will feel strange. The basic process is the same either way. How is it done? Take a front and back of a pants' pattern and lay them side to side. (The pants are going to be wider at the bottom because you don't have the "v" formation taken out for pants that are anything from semi-wide to fitted.) You just lay them so that they are side to side with the side seams touching and the straight of grain lines parallel. The extend your top casing line straight across...that means that the back crotch line will be lower than the front and it is supposed to be, that is the way that we are made. Extend the lower hem line across from one to the other also, and you have no side seam. Then all you have to do is sew the one front leg to a back legs, repeat for the other side. Then, at the crotch, turn one right side out and put it inside the other and sew the crotch seam. After that all you need to do is the hem and casings. When they are done they will be very comfortable. If you took the inside seam out, it would be the same way except the pants would be laid together at the center seam and the pants would still be higher at the back. Most of the pants that I have seen made that way were for children who don't have quite as much difference between the front and back.
pam
Bernina 200e, Artista V5 Designer Plus, Explorations, Magic Box, Bernina 2000DE & 335 Bernette Serger, Bernina 1530 Sewing Machine, Bernina 1300 DC Overlock (with coverstitch) |
User: paroper
Member since: 02-03-2004 Total posts: 3775 |
From: Joho
Date: 09-14-2004, 05:12 PM (3 of 3)
| Thanks for the great instructions! Now, if I can convince my husband he should rehearse at the music lab tonight, then I can spread out my mess on the kitchen table and start tracing. |
User: Joho
Member since: 09-14-2004 Total posts: 5 |
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