Wrap pants. Also known as "monsoon" pants.

They do not have a circular waist: you tie them on like an apron in front (drape over your belly, knot in back), and a sweater in the back (cover your butt and knot in front). They are stitched together only in the crotch.



Gratuitous leg-shot. (Yes, there's ink on my thigh: it's a bluebell. Moving on.)

There are no side-seams to these pants, just the crotch. There is no pattern, either: you measure your waist (mine's 38" - not ashamed), crotch depth (don't go there), and then ask yourself how long you want them. Tiger wanted hers just at the ankle, while I wanted capri-length.

Mine are made of demonic nylon satin. Very slippery. Evil stuff. Feels so good next to the skin, though... Rolled hems throughout, raw edges serged. I sewed them up first, from 11pm last night to 2am this morning. A good education in using the rolled hem foot on my sewing machine, and expanding my sailor's vocabulary.

I made Tiger's out of pink cotton. Total time, from choosing colour to posing for the camera: 65 minutes. I love cotton. All raw edges serged, all hems pressed and top-stitched.

To make:
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Cut TWO rectangles of fabric, each equal to the measurement of your waist (mine's 38") by the length you want your pants to be, plus hem. So I cut two pieces of fabric 38"x33".

Fold in half along the length of the leg (my pieces were folded into 17"x33" rectangles). Take your crotch depth measurement. (We'll call that "A" length.) Snip your folded edges at half of "A" length from what will be the top of your pants. Next, measure in 2" or 3" from the fold at the top of the pants, and cut straight down through all layers of the fabric, and when you get about 3/4 of the way down, curve to meet that clip in the fold. The pieces now resemble folded pants.

Open up your fabrics, match them up right sides together, and sew them together along that curve - this is the crotch seam.

Overcast, press, and top-stitch your hems (or do your rolled-hem thing, if you want to punish yourself). Overcast the top front and back sides of the pants, too. (Did I mention these pants are reversible, too?)

Make two long strips of fabric 3" wide, long enough to become both your waistbands and the sashes to tie the pants on. I used the 60" width of my fabric. Most cotton is 45" wide on the bolt, so you'll have to piece your lengths. Fold them lengthwise right sides together, stitch them into a tube, turn, press them flat, and topstitch them to the tops front and back of your pants.

Tie on the "apron".

Tie on the "sweater".

Flash a leg or two.

*GARDEN JUNKIE* I have three seasons: GROW, *SEW*, and SEED CATALOG!
"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory." W. Edwards Deming
"Stupid priorities." - Alaskan

Yo Momma! You are one sexy woman, and you can sew, too!

Cute!

Peace

Gail

You can go from lolling about to running track in no time flat! Dual-duty pants

Monsoon pants?

I'll grant you they look like awesome summer gear, but I can't imagine the flapping around they'd do in a monsoon!

Now I'm going to have to dig thru my fabric stash and see if I've got a piece of cotton that will work to make some of these.

2m of 45" wide does it for me. (How Canadian is that? metres and inches! ) I've made more of these things, and using the full 45" width of fabric for each leg is a lot more modest than 1m of 60" wide fabric split lengthwise down the middle.