Make a pair of Yoga Pants with me
Designer: Marcia Spencer
Instagram: @keechiibstyle
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Leisure wear and a great pair of Yoga pants can become a staple piece in your wardrobe. You can make your own yoga pants and leisure wear with this quick and easy tutorial below.
Tool & Supplies needed:
Knit fabric suitable for activewear - (Yards based on pattern size cut)
1” knit elastic
Dayna Yoga Pants- Tiana’s closet FREE Pattern
OLFA M-MG-01 24" x 36" Green Double-Sided, Self-Healing Rotary Mat
OLFA 45mm RTY-2/C Quick-Change Rotary Cutter, Aqua
OLFA 5-Inch SCS-1 Serrated-Edge Stainless Steel Scissors
Cutting & Prep
- FIrst, print, assemble and cut out your FREE pattern.
- Cut all the pieces out for the pattern using your Olfa cutting tools.
Sewing Instructions
- With right sides facing pin front and back legs together at inseams matching raw edges.
- Trim and finish seams.
- Repeat for both legs.
- With right sides facing, insert one leg into the other, matching up raw edges of waistband and crotch seam.
- Stitch crotch seam from front to back.
- Finish seam and turn pants right side out
- With right sides together pin front and back waistbands together at the sides matching raw edges. Stitch.
- Repeat for waistband facing.
- With right sides together, line up raw edges and seams of the waistband and waistband facing. Pin. Stitch.
- Cute your elastic circumference of your waist minus 4 inches.
- Overlap the ends. Pin.
- Sew the ends together using a zig zag stitch.
- Then place your elastic between the two layers of the waist band, laying it close to the seam.
- Fit and secure elastic to waistband seam allowance using a zig zag stitch.
- With right sides facing,pin the raw edges of the waistband to the raw edges of the pants matching the seams and catching both edges of waistband.
- Finish raw seams.
- Fold and sew the hem of the pants.
Voila Your Done!
